christosyr As Greek this film is a disgrace and insult Homer and the Greeks! Why I bother watch it?

Robert J. Maxwell I don't know why they bothered to call this a story of Odysseus. I'm no purist. Homer and the rest of them must have forgotten a lot and improvised some of the stuff along the way -- but why make a fictional story of some guy trying to get home and build a house of fictional cards of it? Oh, it's very -- modern. The color is desaturated, the special visual effects gloomy, the gore sloppy, the screams of the dying hellish. But when did Odysseus decide to defy Zeus instead of Poseidon? And what's Persephone doing as his companion? And why do they have to descend into the volcano? And why is the fiery cross sacred?You know what's happening? Bit by bit, frame by frame, these shameful productions are retrogressing fifty or more years to the days of the uncomplicated musclemen in the sand and sandal epics of the 1950s -- dubbed in Italian and shot at Cinecitta. It no longer matters what the story is about, as long as there is a lot of swordplay and, now that we have the technology for it, men changing into monsters and the other way around. Call the hero Odysseus if you want. Or Hercules or Perseus or Romulus or Uncle Remus. It no longer matters.I was only able to watch twenty minutes or so of this travesty. If this represents the future of cinema, I think it's way past time to apologize to Poseidon and get this horrifying journey over with.

S. J. Lewis I've come not to expect much from any SyFy "original" movie. This particular one, though, plumbs new depths of bad writing, atrocious plotting, mediocre-to-bad acting and weak execution. It hijacked names from Greek mythology and applied them to the movie's two-dimensional characters in an attempt, I suppose, to give them some apparent depth, and then to compound the theft shamelessly grabbed some material from Christianity and Bram Stoker, and THEN, not content with making a complete mess of things, swiped an ending right out of any one of the "Halloween" movies. It was flat, predictable and never more than minimally interesting.

webmouse I really wanted to like this film. I truly did. The cast seemed excellent (although the inclusion of "Homer" should have told me all I needed to know about the script). Sadly, the best looking men on screen could not save this one.The language is always a problem, and I realize that it is hard to decide between going for pure period speech or making it all modern. I prefer the former with some latitude for comprehensibility, but too many writers today don't even realize how people spoke in times past, so the occasional slip into a modern cliché is just glaring.So as long as you don't pay any money for it and put your brain in neutral you'll get through it fine. Chant the mantra: entertainment value.