Beowulf | Beowulf

Beowulf | Beowulf
Directed by Robert Zemekis
Starring Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Crispin Glover, John Malkovich, Alison Loman, Brendan Gleeson
USA, 2007, 120 min.

Shot and painted with the help of the latest technologies, previously tested in the same Zemekisom "the Polar Express", a film about adventure hero in the struggle capitalized gadom Grendelem yascheropodobnoy and his mother srisovannoy with Angelina Jolie.

"Beowulf" (VIII century.) - Anglo-Saxon epic of the hero of the same name. B. winning Breku sail affects marine monsters, exempts from the Danish giant-eating Grendelya (pohischavshego soldiers from the King Hrodgara Chambers), and his fierce mother. Then he becomes king, holding its people from the dragon, but the poison dies of a murdered his monster… Along with songs about Nibelungah, Rolande, and the like Side B. epic is a monument of world importance. " "This Literary Encyclopedia", Volume 1, 1930, edition.

Text 77 - year-old was well suited to a summary of the new movie plot, except that remains skobochkah put in the names of actors: Beowulf (Winston), Hrodgar (Hopkins), the mother Grendelya (Jolie). But this is not necessarily - a film by Robert Zemeckis uses the latest technology of digitization movement, so that even in the original cast of all these natural remained only one vote, and after the Russian dubbing and does not understand what is in them. Strictly speaking, the "Beowulf" - cartoon rather than a movie, and acknowledged that its authors: "studio Paramount launched its" Oscar "to" in this category, and the creator of special effects is in the row of higher titer operator. Technology, admittedly, are impressive: the myriad pixels up to majestic landscapes, bloody battles and frightening monsters. The only thing that has not given pixel - is a person and the movement of people. First, even beautiful, terrible look like masks, and the latter are like convulsions puppets in the hands of skilful, but netalantlivogo puppeteer. Apparently, Zemeckis and company are most concerned about the way the film would look like in 3D - each scene is carefully planned so as to run in the maximum number of spectators. I saw the movie on a normal screen - but, I am afraid, if you want to watch, only in three-dimensional form.

Who here has fulfilled its work with a soul - is the screenwriter Neil Gaiman (author of "Zvezdnoy dust" and the rest) and Roger Avery ( "Pulp Fiction"). Podvertev here and there an ancient plot, they turned trehchlennuyu straight line and the funeral ritual battles in the history of tightly wrapped tragedies of betrayal and weaknesses. Against this backdrop, the work of all other actors in loss reserves - is a joke or what? Funny moments here, and in fact is, however, the same: bare like Jolie in the heel, as though Hopkins naked in the sheets, as if Uinstoun naked from the stomach into cubes. During the battle with all the forces Grendelem authors go to never show viewers digital member of a naked Beowulf - Livermore, suppose, and this, too, sinefilskaya joke, and not a desire to earn an American PG-13 rating. Only a sense of this whole unpleasant. As if you blatantly tychut agony directly in a huge TV screen and the reality: "You че, blja, jokes do not understand?"