Synopsis
The battle for eternity begins
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
2016 Directed by Alex Proyas
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Brenton Thwaites Gerard Butler Chadwick Boseman Elodie Yung Courtney Eaton Geoffrey Rush Abbey Lee Bryan Brown Emma Booth Goran D. Kleut Rachael Blake Kenneth Ransom Rufus Sewell Bruce Spence Yaya Deng Alexander England Emily Wheaton Matt Ruscic Robyn Nevin Wassim Hawat Jeff Coopwood Jean-Pierre Yerma Ishak Issa Richard Mutschall Paula Arundell Julian Maroun Marisa Lamonica Josh Farah Show All…
Steven A. Davis Alex Jewson Angela Moore Olga Miller Marlee Barber Naomi Turvey Jesse Rowles Inge Sildnik Andrea Berchtold Michael Matthews Puven Pather Bernadette Van Gyen Talayna Moana Nikora Desiree Rose Cheer Jack Kingsley
Wayne Pashley John Simpson Fabian Sanjurjo Mario Gabrieli Greg P. Fitzgerald Peter Purcell Rick Lisle Nigel Christensen Jared Dwyer Peter Grace
Thunder Road Pyramania Summit Entertainment Mystery Clock Cinema TIK Films Lionsgate Fin Design & Effects
Dioses de Egipto, Les Dieux D'Égypte, Os Deuses do Egipto, Gods of Egypt 3D, 埃及神戰:王者爭霸, 神战:权力之眼, Οι Θεοί της Αιγύπτου, Egyiptom istenei, Zeii Egiptului, מלחמת האלים, สงครามเทวดา, Боги Египта, Bogowie Egiptu, Mısır Tanrıları, 갓 오브 이집트, Боги Єгипту, Bohovia Egypta, Deuses do Egito, Bohové Egypta, 荷魯斯之眼:王者爭霸, Боговете на Египет, Les Dieux d'Égypte, Dioses De Egipto, Богови Египта, Các Vị Thần Ai Cập, Ēģiptes dievi, Egipto dievai, 埃及神戰, キング・オブ・エジプト, خدایان مصر, ეგვიპტის ღმერთები, Déus d'Egipte, Egipčanski bogovi
Half the people in this movie are 9 feet tall and it never stops being fun to look at
yeah sorry guys but this fucking rules, you got egyptian gods shooting laser beams and suplexing each other, women riding kaiju snakes, anime super-saiyan mech forms, giants, beautiful non-naturalistic CGI landscapes, esoteric neo-crowley terminology sneaked into a big-budget studio movie, divine spaceships circling the flat earth (!), and gerard butler giving a totally committed silly villain performance that's like his leonidas role times a million. alex proyas is one of my favorite filmmakers because he truly understands how to make fun and visually exciting spectacles with a human touch -- i was never not going to enjoy this.
mad underrated.
“The Wikipedia page for Gods of Egypt says ‘Lionsgate anticipated [it] to be the first film in a new franchise after it finished releasing The Hunger Games films.’
Uh, yeah. About that.”
(Full review at ScreenCrush.)
Way too long but not demonstrably more stupid than the old CLASH OF THE TITANS, easily more imaginative than the remake or the likes of achingly dull garbage like PRINCE OF PERSIA, and, thank the Gods, a lot fucking weirder than all of the above.
i cant believe Jaime Lannister, Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, Warden of the East, The Young Lion, The Kingslayer, Oathbreaker, The Heir to Casterly Rock, could do this to me
**ALL GOLD EVERYTHING**
if i gave 1 star every time i laughed at the difference in scale between gods & humans id have to give this like 800 stars every other shot looks like an ames room
speakings of "scales" A GIANT SNAKE IS HYPNOTIZED TO SET ITSELF ON FIRE ! ! !
i loved every minute of this
p.s. giant skeletons / b'nai elohim / alien hybrids/ bloodline of the nephilim www.sott.net/image/s6/128207/full/GIANT_SKELETONS_CHART.jpg
The word "visionary" means little outside of marketing wonkery these days (did it ever?) but it's hard to argue that Gods of Egypt shouldn't grant Alex Proyas the superlative. Because, well, dude's got a vision. A goddess' luxurious wings turn to flat stone when severed. Another is ripped by a dozen black hands into the underworld the instant she removes an enchanted bracelet. There's a pyramid in constant motion, the sands of its interior shifting to form and unform and reform staircases and pathways. There's a specificity to the movement of this world that can only come from a director with genuine imagination.
I guess I'm not sure why this was so widely derided? Oh wait, just kidding, I know exactly why. You're not allowed to make this kind of movie anymore unless it's got either a self-loathing sense of humor or a grimace-laden rejection of its genre trappings. Fuck all y'all. This is good fun.
"can you make it any taller?.."
proyas still has yet to live up to the promising filmmaker i saw indark city but this cosmic kitsch translation of mythological egypt that casually evokes dune and lovecraft is just fuckin wild enough to keep me curious. it's no jupiter ascending -- a few more locations & setpieces as insane as geoffrey rush's eternal space conflict with the abyss that is a worm (?) i guess via his sun... ship...(?) that fires lazers and it might've been close (aka, if it was a little taller) -- but i'd be lying if i said i didn't have gun with this frankenstein monstrosity. it was also refreshing to see a cast this game for something this…
"If I were even to try to explain your brain would liquefy and pour out your ears."
Everything about this is golden and glorious. All of my critical thought evaporated the moment when a dude transforms into a giant, shiny eagle-robot to fight a giant, shiny dog-robot. Also, if I had know flat Earth theory involved Geoffrey Rush dragging the sun behind his spaceship while shooting lazer fireballs at a giant space-worm I would never have had the audacity to mock B.O.B.
Shit but redeeming guilty pleasure elements.
Green screen was terrible as fuck though.