From the very beginning (of time), this film was destined to fail. Even in sci-fi, if you’re going to base your fantasy world around a real world location and time period, at least make sure the races and ethnicities the geographical location. Not only were most of the human characters whitewashed, but the deities were too. Director Alex Proyas tried to hide behind the premise that this is all fantasy, and maybe we would have been willing to follow him into his delusion were the film any good. This abomination couldn’t even thrill on the most basic levels, throwing us Transformer-like gods and CGI-heavy beasts that made the film feel like a video game you’re trapped inside. Films like this can sometimes be saved by the performances, but no amount of divine intervention could have saved these wooden and campy performances from anything but a life of (hopefully) obscurity. – Jon Espino
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