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Beowulf and Grendel

 

Canada / UK 2005, 103 minutes
Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson
Genres: Action/Adventure / Fantasy, Epic, Adventure

 

Aroview: A rousing medieval adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem in sweeping fantasy tones. Filled with constant action in a strange, otherworldly looking Icelandic landscape, this contains a postmodern punk sensibility in a surprisingly multilayered drama as Butler leads his troops across the sea to confront a dangerous monster.

Brutish in its violence, with a heavy emphasis on the hack-and-slash this may not please the purist but files along at a cracking pace. Butler makes for a pleasingly ambivalent Beowulf interested more in his opponent’s motivation than his own. There is the odd dumb joke but this Icelandic-madness is enjoyable gamy.

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