Beowulf D

Not a shallow rom com. It's got substance and entertaining too. A bit like Devil wears Prada.

There is a weird campaign to give this movie bad reviews here. Can't understand why. There's nothing controversial about the story. Scary, smart script and great acting.

Good story but it's all about the abstract feeling of fulfilling an obligation. It's overly manly. The director lacks empathies outside of the heroic he-man world. The entire time that the interpreter's family was under duress, the wife barely existed as a stand in for a family. First of all, in tribal societies, the family is the whole extended group. For the shake of convenience, let's just stick to the wife and infant as a stand in, during the entire movie, through shoot outs and near deaths, the wife had no reaction and the husband did not pay any attention to her let alone comforting his wife and kid. What a joke.

Average actings, there's nothing scary about this movie. Tiring and you seen it all before. Russel Crow spoke Italian in about a quarter of the movie but weirdly, there a scene where the priest was being judged by a bunch of superiors but the bishop that did all the talking looked around 30 years old and he insisted that it was agreed upon that the language of the inqusition was English. What? The priest was Italian and they were in the Vatican. Shouldn't it have been Latin? Hello?

First 3 episodes were promising and then it goes south. Director tries to create a signature look so now his last 4-5 movies all looked the same.

One of the better movies I have seen in the few years. That includes all the marvel and DC movies, the few StarWars, the last James Bond...