Gods of Egypt is indeed a huge CG spectacle coming out at a time when audiences are becoming more in tune with how much more organic films look when things are done practically on set. Despite the larger budget given to Proyas-and to Lionsgate’s credit, they actually found a filmmaker born in Egypt to direct their Egyptian epic- Gods of Egypt often becomes overpowered by its attempt to create something so epic in scale that it makes it hard to appreciate its characters. After Bek breaks into Set’s vault and recovers one of Horus’ eyes, he makes a deal with the now-cycloptic deity to work together and stop Set’s reign.įans of Proyas’ Dark City that have been waiting patiently for the Australian filmmaker to make something on par with that noirish thriller will just have to keep waiting. In the meantime, a mortal thief named Bek (Brenton Thwaites) doesn’t have much in terms of wealth but he does have a great love for Zaya (Courtney Eaton), who ends up serving Set’s greedy master architect Urshu (Rufus Sewell) in the aftermath of Osiris’ demise. Osiris is about to crown his son Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as the king of Egypt when Set shows up with an army to usurp the crown, killing Osiris, blinding Horus, and declaring war on the other gods in order to gain their power as well. The film’s prologue introduces us to the title characters: feuding brothers Set (Gerard Butler) and Osiris (Bryan Brown), explaining how the Egyptian gods are living amongst the mortals, towering above them in a visual that’s hard not to laugh at when you first see two different-sized people intermingling. Gods of Egypt may be arriving far too late to even be in the conversation with the latter.
Thanks to the success of films like 300 and Clash of the Titans, every studio has been scrambling to latch onto their coattails with their own action-filled fantasy epics, which has ultimately led to diminishing returns for the weaker sequels to those films and obvious rip-offs like Immortals.
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