Wrath Of The Titans

2010’s Clash Of The Titans was a bit of fun but was undone by Sam Worthington’s somewhat wooden performance, shoddy 3D and far too much exposition. For this follow up director Jonathan Liebesman has pretty much decided to trim all the fat that slowed the first outing up and we have a film that is pretty much all action from start to finish. It just about works. The plot is pretty thin (some double crossing and Titans v Gods stuff) but you just have to go with it. Liebesman has form in directing films that are high on the effects front and low on plot details and acting, so he’s pretty much at home here. The biggest plus point this has over its predecessor is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously and things move too quick anyway for you to even begin to ponder what is going on. Sure this has it’s negative points including some clunking lines (“You’ll soon discover that being half-human is more powerful than being a God”…err, really?) and Rosamund Pike appears as worlds least convincing military Queen. Plus Bill Nighy’s hamming up it as a God (complete with unexplained Mancunian accent) is just plain odd. As for Worthington, he phones it in again, but in a film this effect heavy he doesn’t really need to do much else. Overall as sequels go this is pretty standard, but it is actually an improvement on the original film and if you do see it I recommend eliminating the 3D issue yourself by seeing a “normal” showing of this (as I did). I’ve read that the 3D is still a problem for this film (as in its rubbish again), but that’s hardly a surprise these days is it?

The OC Film Sting Final Verdict
Wrath Of The Titans….Titans Will Wrath! Rating: 6/10.