Review #038: Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
Cast
Logan Lerman (Percy), Brandon T. Jackson (Grover), Alexandria Daddario (Annabeth), Jake Abel (Luke), Pierce Brosnan (Charon), Sean Bean (Zeus), Kevin McKidd (Posideon). Directed by Chris Columbus.
Review
This is the first film covered of the 2010s, a decade that just started last year, and the film made me have slight anger spots originally when I watched it. But I've realized that that's not exactly productive. Anyway, this film aspires to be the next Harry Potter. It tries to grab you in, make you care for the things in the movie. However, you realize who the director is, and now you wonder why he tries to make it like that. It sounds like it in the book, but it's more then that ,and that's the thing. It wastes an opportunity to do something else with a decent cast and alright acting that while not following the book much at least tries. That's my problem with it, it feels like it pulls half the work and expects the audience to just me attracted to it because of the "mythical magic, ooh!" Oh yeah, the book is butchered a bit in the film, with things that are either missing or changed out of what I have no idea.
Overall, I give it 6 out of 10 stars.
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