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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