BY THE HAMMER OF CROM! THIS IS THE MOST AWESOMELY MACHO TRAILER WE’VE SEEN IN AGES, SO MACHO WE’VE DECIDED TO USE CAPSLOCK, THAT MOST BARBARIAN OF ALL TYPOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES TO PROMOTE IT.
TO BE HONEST WE REALLY CAN’T TELL IF IT’LL BE CLASSIC OR ‘KULL THE CONQUROR’ FROM THIS, BUT IT’S SO REMARKABLY GRUFF WE HAD TO SHARE.
YOU CAN THANK US IN HELL, OUTLANDER!
There’s only really one question lurking in every geeky fanboy mind – how well does this stack up against an original version as semi-legendary as Sam Worthington’s protagonist. The answer – pretty well actually!
There’s definitely a sense of campy lunacy about things as Worthington’s Perseus is found and raised by an over-acting and bizarrely accented (for ancient Greece) Pete Postlethwaite, who decides to chuck in a nuanced, emotionally charged performance for some reason, despite being in a world where most of the second act is taken up by giant scorpions attacks…
