![]() ![]() Perseus and his compatriots reach Zeus, where in the meantime Hades has had a change of heart. Inside, Perseus is separated from Agenor and Andromeda and runs into a Minotaur-like creature. The labyrinth is an ever-shifting series of corridors and floors which recalled, to my mind, the inside of the pyramid in Alien vs Predator (2004). With the help of Agenor (Toby Kebbell), a mortal son of Poseidon, they eventually find their way to where Hephaestus (Bill Nighy) lives, who designed the prison.Īt the entrance to the underworld, Ares shows up and kills Hephaestus, but not before he manages to unlock the entrance to the labyrinth. Along the way, he runs across Andromeda (now played by Rosamund Pike), who is leading the army of Argos against the monsters. Perseus now has to go to the underworld to liberate his father. Poseidon tells Perseus that Zeus has been captured by Hades and Ares. The action sequence that follows is neat and the resolution of the battle between Perseus and the monster is clever. It’s not exactly comparable with classical representations of the creature, but it’s close enough and visually interesting. Perseus’ village is attacked by a Chimera, which in the movie is represented as a fire-breathing, winged, double-headed, lion-like creature with a serpent as a tail. (The basic plot as well as the look of Cronus, represented as a gargantuan creature made from molten rock, recalls the game Age of Mythology!) The god is chained to rocks and then drained of his strength, which is used to empower the Titan Cronus, who was locked away in Tartarus – described as “the prison of the underworld” – after the Titanomachy. Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and Ares (Édgar Ramírez) conspire together and capture Zeus. This brief exchange sets the stage for the rest of the movie. Monsters will flood the earth and the gods will become mortal and die. Zeus visits Perseus and says that since humanity stopped praying, the gods are growing weak and there will be consequences. ![]() But as Zeus (Liam Neeson) says in the opening voice over, he won’t be able to hide forever. Io has died and Perseus (Sam Worthington) lives a normal life as a mortal, with his son, in a village on the coast. The story picks up some time after Clash of the Titans and has nothing to do with the original Perseus myth. Wrath of the Titans was directed by Jonathan Liebesman (of Battle Los Angeles “fame”) and based on an original story that cribs liberally from Greek mythology. ![]() While the remake of Clash of the Titans was not a critical success, it performed well enough at the box office to warrant a sequel. ![]()
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