The characters up on screen seem like living, breathing people.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Expectedly, there are large-scale, edge-of-the seat clashes and some classic savage scenes. There are other interesting touches and some quirky emotions. It's a philosophical play on what it means to be a warrior.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2019

Avary and Gaiman lay on the sexual innuendo and adultery, fleshing out the character of Beowulf into a believably unreliable narrator.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2018

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's a superb action flick that will have you wide-eyed in awe at its effects; just don't go expecting any kind of literary discussion.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2011

Beowulf is a well conceived and technically excellent rendition of the ancient legend, but it doesn't follow its ideas through all the way, and some strange choices on the part of Zemeckis ultimately make it a little less than the sum of its parts.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jan 7, 2011

The Old English poem ponderously, gracelessly expanded into an epic bore

| Aug 25, 2009

It drops its epic posture and spews far too many double entendres.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

...the initially impressive visuals are ultimately negated by the annoyance of the technology.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

A worthy cinematic adaptation, with interesting and provocative mythic ideas of its own, and suprisingly lyrical images to match. [Blu-Ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2008

The bane of English majors for 1,300 years makes it back to the big screen, now with 75 percent more hostility toward Christianity!

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

The story contains plenty of action and great-looking graphics, but it hasn't much heart.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 28, 2008

Throw on your 3-D glasses and prepare to have your mind blown away.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2008

Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf is so rousingly entertaining that you'll feel guilty for not reading the epic poem all the way through when you were in ninth grade.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 1, 2008

So much is right about Beowulf that one longs for the darker, grimier version that might have been in live action.

| Apr 3, 2008

Robert Zemeckis' take on Beowulf is a marvel visually but eye-popping effects are still no challenge for good old-fashioned human emotion.

| Mar 10, 2008

At the end of it all, if you take away the violence, the defiantly in-your-face nudity, and Angelina Jolie, you will find very little story underneath.

| Mar 10, 2008

This is not the future of films, but it is a future, especially for the action genre.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 4, 2008

While the film's mission to enrapture teenage boys (and other fans of grand adventure) is accomplished, I'd have to suggest to Mr. Zemeckis that it may be time to abandon this form of animation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2008