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The Review - AT THE MOVIES with WILLIAM HALL
Published: 15 November 2007

The digitally enhanced Ray Winstone as Beowulf

Winstone turns into action hero

BEOWULF
Directed by Robert Zemickis
Certificate 12a

BASING this spectacular saga on the bestselling historical fable (1.5 million copies to date), director Robert Zemeckis takes us into a world of warriors and monsters in the 6th century.
The mighty Beowulf (a muscular Ray Winstone) battles a trio of lethal foes to win the heart of a seductive maiden (Angelina Jolie).
Backed by heavily digitalised computer images, the creatures explode on to the screen in the shape of a bloodthirsty demon named Grendel, his vengeful monstrous mother, and finally a dragon showing more teeth than Jaws.
The action is as wild as it gets, and battle scenes that fill the sky with hissing arrows are reminiscent of Olivier’s classic Henry V. Maybe a lot of it is blue-screen DCI trickery, but Winstone does a worthy job as the royal son of a Scandinavian clan in a saga that is part history, part mythology.
Oh, and that’s Anthony Hopkins as Hrothgar.

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