While not an outright disaster, this is still as massively perplexing a misfire as any likely to see a release this year.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 15, 2016

ny picture featuring Geoffrey Rush channelling King Lear as the patriarch god Ra while flying about in a spaceship can't be all bad.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2016

The fantasy film Gods of Egypt does practically everything wrong, from its whitewashed cast to its irredeemably goofy storyline. What a waste.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 2, 2016

A raspy voiceover man (Lindsay Farris) announces authoratively that we are about to witness the story of the Egyptian gods... "From what I recall it goes something like this." What? Did he just say that?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 22, 2016

Unprecedentedly violent and incomparably preposterous.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 19, 2016

The film doesn't just play fast and loose with mythology, it also besmirches the cinematic legacy that precedes it - chiefly, the inventive ancient Greek special effects creations of Ray Harryhausen.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 19, 2016

This is an exercise in very grand kitsch, a CGI-driven sword and sandal epic in which the dialogue in tin-eared, the performances creak and even the special effects are cheesy in the extreme.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 17, 2016

It's initially fuelled with its own absurdity, like an ecologically unsafe type of diesel. But there is a falling off after half an hour or so.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2016

It's utterly ridiculous - and impossible to resist.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2016

"Ye gods" is a line you're more likely to hear from the audience than from the screen in Gods of Egypt.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 16, 2016

Dazzling in the moment, but instantly forgettable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 14, 2016

Summer 2016 has had a high number of shonky blockbusters, but Gods Of Egypt is the worst of them.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 9, 2016

Minor pleasures can't compensate for the disappointment of a film that borrows so heavily from other, better, films.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 4, 2016

Sometimes Gods of Egypt has fascinatingly go-for-broke visuals. Other times, 1997 Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush... glowers on his boat in space between breaks fighting chaos, as represented by a toothy cloud worm.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2016

Holy Isis and Osiris! Barely two months into the year and a strong contender for the worst film of 2016 has already appeared onscreen.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 3, 2016

If it wasn't all CGI, I would have said I hope they saved the sets for another, better movie.

| Feb 27, 2016

As bad movies go, this one at least is all-in on its badness.

| Feb 27, 2016

... it's a spectacular mess that's shameless in its desire to entertain through sheer, misbegotten excess.

| Original Score: C | Feb 27, 2016

Gods of Egypt gets lost in its own budget, constantly shooting to outdo its visual grandeur but forgetting to lend it any depth. But there's a mad ambition at work.

| Feb 27, 2016

This is a special nerdery

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 27, 2016