Artificial Leisure – IMDb (press release)

Now that’s a journey through time. Alex Proyas had to spend the last decade in isolation from the world, because its “The gods of Egypt” for spectacle able to pass at least right at the beginning of the XXI century. Today is the work of anachronistic shameful reminder that sometimes the mass culture dominated bezguście.
“The gods of Egypt” are one big special effect. I would not be a charge if the use of technological achievements does not hide very primitive idea. Its main objective is to bask in the artificiality of the created world, so that the viewer season of bombarding him with nystagmus increasingly improbable solutions. Such an approach to visual effects that were popular in the cinema, when the technology became available to all and not only for the chosen. Creators zachłystywali the possibilities of machines and artificiality overclocked to the limit was a determinant of quality. Fortunately, the audience quickly got bored (outside of China, Russia and several other markets). Measures Proyas getting so into the void.

And if even that which he created with his team director, has had at least an element of originality, perhaps “Gods of Egypt” could be saved, considering the benefit of avant-garde, underrated. So even I appreciate the movie “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow” , which is not even half as bad as it was painted at one time. He was standing just in opposition to what the contemporary audience was willing to accept. Sorry Proyas missed, which was a place only for visual effects. Watching “Gods of Egypt” you can not see the momentum, the results of operation of unrestricted imagination. On the contrary, most of the scenes is strongly reconstructive. Computers ape what can be successfully achieved practical effects scenografiami and costumes. And such action almost always takes place to the detriment of the film. Pageantry is in the “Gods of Egypt” very superficial. Just compare poorly-looking scene of the coronation of Horus from doing the still impressive sequences Cleopatra entering Rome or Ben-Hur pursuing the chariots.

Since the special effects are the core of the “Gods of Egypt” , all the rest, even if it was of the highest order, could not save the movie. At most reduce the size of their defeat. That has not happened, because everything in the film Proyas failed miserably. Heavily fails even scenario. History of lack of action rooted in the story. Dynamism is here only imitated sequences very dynamic duels and races. Heroes of Bek and headed Horus, are so dull that viewer attention only after them slips. If it were not recognizable faces, most of the movie characters have been completely forgotten. And still I suspect that viewers talking about a hero using either the names of actors or phrases such as “the guy with the ” Game of Thrones “” I do not remember character names.
In all this, the most surprising attitude to the mythical prototypes. Hollywood has a reputation, after the place where the ancient belief comes with nonchalance, stealing only the names and the names of their own. Meanwhile, in the “Gods of Egypt” found a distant echo of the myths of the Upper and Lower Kingdom. This however does not matter. Proyas film is a work of late and just in the world of boring. Ancient Egypt was still so must wait for the show, which do justice to its culture.