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A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

A nice little movie - the Grendel & Beowulf saga embedded in a post-apocalyptic world. As the fearless warrior we get Christopher Lambert who fights against Grendel the beast, who kills after dark one after another the knights of a besieged castle. Inside the castle the killing beast and outside an army who stands at guard to kill everybody who wants to leave the fortress. This is what I call a good B-trash movie. Reminds me a little of the 3rd Evil Dead movie Army of Darkness - but with far less humor.Again, there can be only one - Grendel or Beowulf!

First, I gave it 5/10 points arbitrarily... I don't honestly know how to rank this film.You know those movies that are so bad they're good, even great? Well, this isn't one of them... This movie is so bad that it's... bad.So why five points? Because it's just a really weird, bad movie that didn't actually leave a bad taste in my mouth afterwards. Yes, I watched it late at night when I couldn't fall asleep, which is the only sane reason to watch this movie. And I've seen some movies that just offended me such that I hated them afterwards, but this movie isn't one of them. This movie DID have some thought and purpose at some point, it's just up to the viewer to figure out when it was, what it was, and what it was supposed to be.The cast and acting is... interesting. Imagine my surprise when I see Mac from Night Court standing atop the 'castle' look out early in the film! What??? And Christopher Lambert apparently turned down Mortal Kombat 2 to do this movie (and had the same Raiden hair still) because the movie at the time had a real low budget of $25M... which was later whittled down to around $3.5M, about enough for the production company to cater the set with Ramen noodles during the shoot. It even has Gotz Otto, who is actually a decent actor, and Rhona Mitra who is an even more decent actress...And Grendel's Mother is a genuine Playboy Playmate! And it shows!!! The movie is filmed on location in Romania... why? Who knows, probably because it was cheap. The scenery is unremarkable at best. Apparently it was not a pleasant place to film at either. The sets aren't bad when you consider they were working with a budget more apt for a weekly TV series episode than an actual feature length film. I think a large portion of the film's budget went towards matches and lighter fluid, as there are an abundance of candles and torches in almost every scene.If only some of that candle money had been spent on the CGI stuffs... which is all horrible. I was in school during that era, and happened to be in a class where we were playing with various 3D art and rendering programs. I think based on that experience, it's safe to say whoever did the CGI in this movie had never actually done so before, and/or hadn't taken the same classes I had, or it may have turned out a little better.The props, specifically the weapons... What can I say? The king carries a non-op chainsaw blade on a stick... and that's par for the course. I get that somehow the viewer is supposed to know in advance that this is a 'post-apocalyptic future', and that the prop guy was shooting for a feeling of weapons constructed of anything that such a people could get their hands on... But why does the castle have electricity for things like the PA system and the Weapon's Master's honing wheel, all the doors make a hissing sound like they're being hermetically sealed (it's a big open drafty castle, mind you), dinner is served in pristine disposable foil serving dishes (probably robbed from the Ramen noodle catering truck), and every dead person gets their own personal, plastic body bag with a zipper on it?!?!? I think I like this film for these reasons, because you know this movie drove the director to drink, at least, and that after the first day of shooting the cast just sort of showed up everyday to shoot the movie, knowing that they were making a turd, but by Gods it was going to be a polished turd if they could help it! I mean seriously, I'm willing to bet that the dinner scenes were real! They shot them at actual meal times, brought the food from the catering truck onto set with them (served in those awesome disposable foil containers) and sat there and read their lines while having dinner with each other. Why not, right? 5/10 points, because it's not a horrible movie that leaves you wanting that hour and a half back from your life, but because it's a horrible movie that leaves you feeling so bad for the cast and crew that you can't help but want to give them something to console them... even if it's just five points in an internet review...

If this movie saved its allowance for a year, did all of its homework, all of its chores, and went to bed on time every night. . .it might begin to qualify as a crappy movie. I haven't seen a film this bad. . .ever. I was initially enchanted by the opening of the film. I had to give it a little latitude for the opening FX, being as it was produced in a pre-WETA world, and I was willing to do that. I loved the whole scene with the mob and trying to execute the escapee, and I was thrilled by the initial design choices that were made (LOVED the over-sized straight razor as a decapitation device). But once Beowulf showed up, the dialogue sucked and the pace of the movie drew to a screeching halt. Stupid electric guitar music for all of the overly long action sequences started making me angry only a few minutes into the film and kept on throughout the rest of it. The only thing that I can say that was remotely interesting was the whole plot line with Grendal's mother and making her incredibly enticing as well as the source of "evil" in the world. But even that was poorly directed. I have no issue with sex on film. None at all. I don't even mind porn all that much, but for God's sake. . .I think it was her acting. Or maybe the crap dialogue. . .you know what? I didn't even like her much at all. Or anything else in the movie. Forget it, I don't want to review this any more. Save yourself the time, walk away from this one. Even on Netflix. Surely you've got more important things you could do with that hour and a half.

I've read a couple different versions of Beowulf (the lady at the used bookstore couldn't believe I was reading it because I wanted to as opposed to needing to for a class), and I love the story.When I saw that there was going to be a sci fi version of the story, I had high hopes. I thought to myself, "Self, this could be very cool." Sadly, I was very disappointed when I rented the movie and sat down to watch it.As the ending credits rolled by, my only comment was that all involved should commit a ritual suicide in order to atone for their sins. I'm not going to burden you with any further comment. Make your own decision as to whether or not you choose to watch this movie. I wash my hands, and take no responsibility for your actions.Good day.