Beowulf - *

Beowulf *

Adventure. Warner, Paramount. 2007.
D: Robert Zemeckis.
P: Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke, Steve Bing.

“The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge”.

Good as spectacle, with the director’s strong sense for visual storytelling as its best feature. As literature, it’s not nearly up to the challenge of its source. Songwritters wrote a couple of folk, ancient sounding tunes that are one of the most transporting elements of the film.

Significant production contribution: Sound (Randy Thom, Dennis Leonard), Songs (Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard)