Beowulf & Grendel
by Sturla Gunnarsson
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Actor: Gunnar Eyj?lfsson, Hringur Ingvarsson, Ingvar Eggert Sigur?sson, Spencer Wilding, Stellan Skarsg?rdDirector: Sturla Gunnarsson
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Color, Dolby, Import, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Beowulf & Grendel
Movie Review: Not the CGI one!
Summary: 4 Stars
Movie was pretty good. However, I thought this was the new one that was computer generated. It's not! As such, it may be on BluRay, but it's really not much better than an upconverted regular DVD.
Summary of Beowulf & Grendel
The Hero The Monster The MythBeowulf & Grendel is a medieval adventure part fantasy part legendary fable part horror story. It tells the blood soaked tale of a warrior's blade against a murderous troll Grendel who has laid siege to the kingdom of Hrothgar king of the Danes. Out of allegiance to Hrothgar Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster. The monster Grendel is a creature of immense flesh and raging blood driven by a vengeance from being wronged.Beowulf's willingness to kill on behalf of Hrothgar waves when it becomes clear that the King is more responsible for the troll's rampages than was first apparent. Beowulf & Grendel is a tale where vengeance loyalty and mercy powerfully entwine. A story of blood and beer and sweat Beowful & Grendel strips away the mask of the hero myth leaving a raw and tangled tale.System Requirements:Running Time: 103 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?HORROR Rating:?R UPC:?013137212093 Manufacturer No:?DV72120The otherworldly landscape of Iceland lends an appropriate touch of dark fantasy to this modern retelling of Beowulf, the oldest epic poem in the English language. Gerard Butler (The Phantom of the Opera) brings the right balance of physicality and world-weariness as the Swedish hero Beowulf, who travels to Denmark to fight the monstrous troll Grendel (Icelandic superstar Ignvar Sigurdsson), which has been plaguing the house of King Hrothgar (Stellan Skarsg?rd, buried under a mound of prosthetic hair). However, what transpires is not a battle between good and evil, but a convoluted mystery of sorts, with Beowulf playing the detective who discovers that his foe is more human than monster, and Hrothgar less wronged innocent than catalyst for his own downfall. Director Sturla Gunnarsson succeeds in pulling this legendary story from the dust of academics by contemporizing the dialogue (Andrew Rai Berzins has an excellent ear for hard-bitten palaver), and his visuals are nothing less than striking, but the film attempts to be both monster movie and melancholy drama, while never quite satisfying the requirements of either genre. Regardless, the quality cast (which includes Sarah Polley from Dawn of the Dead as a sharp-tongued witch with a connection to Grendel) and some well-handled action sequences should hold viewers' attention even when the unnecessarily complex plot does not. --Paul Gaita
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