Wrath of the Titans Movie Review - Better than Clash of the Titans

WE’D LIKE to call it the much anticipated sequel, but its predecessor, “Clash of the Titans” (2010), didn’t exactly endear itself to us so we only went to see it as we already saw “Hunger Games” and there isn’t anything else to see. In all fairness, “Wrath of the Titans” turned out to be better than “Clash”, which messed up the Perseus story in Greek mythology. It has a more interesting story and the CGI work is also better, particularly the labyrinth, Cyclops and minotaur special effects.

The narrative takes place 10 years after the end of “Clash”. Perseus (Sam Worthington) is now a fisherman and a widower with a 10-year old son, Helius. He has opted to live the life of a human, but his Greek god dad, Zeus (Liam Neeson), leads a dysfunctional family of Olympian deities. His brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and his other son Ares, the god of war (Edgar Ramirez), rebel against him and plan to free the legendary evil Titan, Cronos, who was put away by his own children.

Perseus finds allies in Andromeda (Rosemunde Pike, played by Alexa Davalos in “Clash”) and a comic Hephaestus (Bill Nighy) who makes fun of Greek mythology and whose presence provides the much needed humor so lacking in the first movie.

British actors Neeson and Fiennes do quite well as Zeus and Hades. Aussie actor Worthington gets the job done, too, but he lacks appeal and brings little warmth and humanity to his role as Perseus. He also has no chemistry at all with Pike. Their kissing scene in the end seems to have just been added as an afterthought. He was better in “Avatar”. As an action-adventure spectacle, Director Jonathan Liebesman (“Battle: Los Angeles”) offers some well staged and pretty exciting set pieces as Perseus battles some scary looking monsters.