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

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

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

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

No doubt C.B. DeMille, another director with a knack for turning Hollywood stars into robots, would have been entranced.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2008

Those who remember the 3000 line epic from 8th grade English will be pleasantly surprised to learn they've scrapped the original plot altogether.

| Original Score: B | Jan 29, 2008

An excellent showcase for the advantages of computer-generated animation.

| Nov 24, 2007

I had a hell of a good time at this movie.

Full Review | Nov 19, 2007

Their story arc brings some legitimate dramatic interest to Beowulf's climactic battle with the dragon.

| Nov 19, 2007

The film strives for mythological depth and epic breadth, but it's hard to get below the flat, shallow gloss over every surface.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 17, 2007

Ultimately, Beowulf feels a lot like a video game blown up large: noise, action and funny walking intact.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 16, 2007

It's imaginative, and it has the barreling forward motion and lurching thrills of a Dark Ages theme park, even when it's exercising battle-worn clichés.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2007

Heads roll, arteries gush and spleens spill across the IMAX screen in Beowulf, just as you'd expect in a screen adaptation of the oldest surviving epic poem in the English language.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2007

You want to read Beowulf? Get the book, I'm not stopping you. You want bloody adventure with a brain, see the movie.

| Nov 16, 2007

It's the Beowulf saga once again, and the movie becomes tiresome and trivial -- well done within the narrow limits of its aspiration but not worth the inflated effort.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 16, 2007

Zemeckis has been seduced by the siren call of motion capture... Memo to Zemeckis: come back to earth!

| Nov 16, 2007

Beowulf is as dazzling a feast for the eyes as the hungriest eyes can take.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2007

As it stands, Zemeckis's movie is only the beta version of the blockbuster of the future, ridden with imperfections that will presumably be corrected in later upgrades.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2007

It's more dazzle than disaster, but the technical ambitions of Beowulf work too sporadically to be completely effective, while the screenplay adaptation of the classic story suffers from serious bouts of corn poison.

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 16, 2007

A bloody, silly-sexy action spectacle that shamelessly attempts to justify its excess by basing its violent bombast on the epic poem.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 16, 2007