Best movie of this year hands down!

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Is was entertaining, whach it it with the right mindset and have fun, that's it!!! nothing else!!!

Considering I do not like SciFi fantasy type movies I was able to sit through this one happily. The poor reviews are not warranted or justified. People are too picky, wanting accuracy in a work of fiction. It is not a documentary so why evaluate it on a false premise. The acting was solid and convincing. The storyline kept one interested. It was clever with the technology and graphics. Overall, a decent movie made in Sydney, Australia, on a fairly small budget.

Fantasy is very difficult to get right in films. Audience resistance is quite high, especially when it involves characters with difficult-to-remember names or diverse place names. Relating to a fantasy world of beasts and magic is often tricky for audiences who may prefer grounded, realistic drama. There are exceptions though - the worlds of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings captured public imaginations and the complex mass of stories and themes in Game of Thrones also attracted an audience.This fear of fantasy seems to have informed a slightly tentative approach in the writing and direction of Gods of Egypt. There are plenty of fantastic creatures present ranging from giant, vicious snake like creatures to Minotaurs in all but name, and an array of Egyptian gods. However, there has been avoidance of any of the cod Shakespearean dialogue that often permeates works of this type and an emphasis more upon realistic dialogue. This creates a needless tension between the intensity of the innovative visuals and the prosaic words dropping from the actors, a tension that is never resolved as the linear story progresses forwards but never upwards.The pleasures with this film arise mostly from the intensity of the visual experience. Every environment has been precisely designed, full of colour and dimension, looking very different from the landscapes seen in past films based on myth and history. The benefit of this is that there is always something to attract the eye, from great sky barges to rainbow lit waterfalls and massive monuments. Like all Alex Proyas' films the visual ideas add weight and substance that the scripting sometimes fails to.It is however that narrative which brings the film down with a series of very deliberate events extrapolated in excessive detail, burdened by actors who at times look deathly uncomfortable in their roles. Only Geoffrey Rush, in a small but notable part, really excels with so many of the others not able to bring life to the dialogue as they intone in front of ever present green screens. In the end it is a pity that such a wonderfully conceived world at the visual level could not have been combined with a compelling story and acting.

Now that we have black cowboys and mythical black kingdoms wreaking vengeance on the white man, certain people cannot abide any historical narrative that is actually historical. The most recent DNA evidence in 2017 of 151 mummies shows Egyptians were white for most of their history and Nubian Africans did not contribute genetic material until the last 1500 years. It is a shame that rabid, anti-white racists would rather destroy careers and investments than allow history to be revealed. This movie was so thoroughly trashed, despite being a fantasy, they lost money by making an excellent film.