Gods of Egypt Film Review

Finished watching Gods of Egypt, directed by Alex Proyas and staring Brenton Thwaited, Courtney Eaton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Bryan Brown, Gerard Butler and Élodie Yung. The film opens up with humans Bek (Brenton Thwaited) and Zaya (Courtney Eaton) getting ready to watch the coronation of the God Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who is taking over from his father Osiris (Bryan Brown). While at the coronation Set (Gerard Butler) appears to congratulate his nephew only to begin to fight him for the chance to rule over Egypt. After a year under Set's reign Bek steals one Horus eye's from Set's vault and try's to recruit him to help the people he abandoned who are now the slaves of Set. Overall this was a decent film as it explores the mythology of ancient Egypt in quite interesting with Bek being the view point of the film works as he is one of the only relatable characters within the film. There is a good amount of comedic moments that come from the interactions between Bek and Horus during their travels and as the two come from different social classes. While Horus interactions with his ex Hathor (Élodie Yung) is just hilarious as Hathor is very much out of her element when she joins the pair on their journey especially when Horus doesn't help her due to being annoyed with her having moved on. The CGI in a the film is a bit irritating especially with the size of the gods as they are constantly changing. At one point they dwarf the humans while in other scenes they are of similar size to the humans. 6.5/10.