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Gods of sand1/29/2024 ![]() (She also has one of the best lines in the film, when Horus is grumbling that she had betrayed him for Set, and (Chadwick Boseman), unable to lie, into admitting he prefers seeing her from behind, or seducing monstrous snake demons into killing themselves simply byīatting her lashes, she’s a joy to watch. Reach quite the same level of magnetic vampitude as, say, an Eva Green, but whether she’s teasing nerdy god Thoth Of love (Elodie Yung), who stands out in this maelstrom of glitz and glory with a self-assured confidence that was immediately arresting. Bek has Zaya, and Horus has Hathor, goddess Horus and the peppy Bek is a fun one, especially because they both have ladies counting on them to win the day. The growing relationship between the irascible ), whose soul is doomed to oblivion since she can’t pay Set’s exhorbitant price to enter the afterlife. His beloved Zaya (Courtney Eaton, late of Fury Road Bek risks these Indiana Jones-style pitfalls because he needs Horus’ help in resurrecting Vault, after Set plucked them straight from Horus’ head. Of a mortal kid named Bek (Brenton Thwaites) who was a quick and clever enough thief to steal back one of Horus’ all-seeing eyes from Set’s trap-filled There are some fun hijinks surrounding Horus’ quest to avenge the death of his parents and unseat his uncle Set from the throne, as it involves the help Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Brenton Thwaites in Gods of Egypt. Going for broke” mentality that it’s impossible to imagine anyone else in the role. Gods of Egypt dares you to care that Butler is ostensibly anĮgyptian who sounds like a Scot (and looks like an unwashed potato) – his swaggering, maniacal performance is so in-tune with the film’s “screw it, we’re Hollywood race-bending live side by side, and you’re asked to ignore it. This is no Exodus: Gods and Kings, where gritty “realism” and ProyasĬoncerning the whitewashing of the cast – and it’s true, in 2016 a Swede and a Scot playing Egyptian deities is literally laughable – but the film’s tone,Īnd the performances of its leads, sneakily sidestep this glaring issue. In during Horus’ coronation and kills his brother Osiris (Bryan Brown), he jacks up the cover fee, so that only those who can front the bill in jewelleryĪnd gold get access to that sweet eternal VIP section – leaving the unwashed masses out on the proverbial curb. The afterlife is treated like some kind of mythological nightclub, and when Butler’s Set rolls They duel in the sky with magic spears and glowing swords. They transform at will into dazzling armoured falcon-robots and when they fight, they don’t use just fisticuffs – Director Alex Proyas ( Dark City, The Crow)įashions a fantastical ancient Egypt where the gods are superheroic rockstars, living among their adoring mortal servants, with liquid gold running This is a vision of Egyptian mythology that has no use for your boring old museums and textbooks. Got you down, there is truly no better cure than a flamboyant, excessive, cocksure trashterpiece like this. Perfect storm of unconscionable casting and absurd CG shenanigans, and delivered to a degree I never dared hope was possible. Or, honestly, it might have been watching the trailer, long before I sat down for the main event, which promised a Meet Ra (Geoffrey Rush), god of the sun and father of creation, who chills on his celestial catamaran, pulling the sun on a long chain over the edge of theįlat, disc-shaped earth (and occasionally firing off a casual bolt from his laser spear at Apophis, the ever-encroaching demon-worm of chaos, representedīy a cloud of swirling teeth and smoke). Gerard Butler (as desert god Set), in true Connery fashion, was going to make no effort whatsoever to mask his Scottish brogue. It might have been when it became clear that Night’s orgy and we see that, like all gods, he’s twelve feet tall, with a giant-sized Jacuzzi to match. ![]() ![]() It might have been when Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) awakes amongst the remnants of last I don’t know the exact moment Gods of Egypt won me over.
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