Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey
November. 08,2010Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was 'alive to every tremor and gleam of existence'. Following the magical and strange adventures of warrior king Odysseus, inventor of the idea of the Trojan horse, the poem can claim to be the greatest story ever told. Now British poet Simon Armitage goes on his own Greek adventure, following in the footsteps of one of his own personal heroes. Yet Simon ponders the question of whether he even likes the guy.
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A Disappointing Continuation
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable