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Beowulf & Grendel (2005)
Why, oh why, must they mess with the source material?
15 December 2006 - 16 out of 21 users found this review helpful.
Beuwulf is a great piece of literature. Why did the writers mess with a good thing? I'm surprised no one started singing "Kum ba ya". Grendel is a monster not a victim. When did Hrothgar start drowning his sorrows in mead? The writers of Conan the Barbarian would have done a much better job.
What is Brendan the Navigator doing in there? Perhaps to take cheap shots at Christians. Completely unnecessary to the movie and a big disappointment.
It could have been a good movie if the writers had been faithful to the original. Then perhaps it wouldn't have gone strait to video.
On the plus side it was filmed in Iceland and the stark landscape added a lot of feel to the movie. The actors all did a fine job with what they had.
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