Ancient epic poem 'Beowulf' seen through a modern prism.(Movie review)

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | Date: July 14, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Michael Phillips

Jul. 14--Two elements of "Beowulf & Grendel" make a mixed-up and unbalanced picture nearly worthwhile. One is Iceland. Shooting in various, epically craggy corners of a country that hasn't been location scouted to death, the film's makers resort to not a single computer-generated effect in this pictorially imposing retelling of the heroic tale. (Scholars date "Beowulf" to somewhere between the 7th and 11th Centuries.)

The other element you never fully see. It's a bone-white sea creature--Death, glimpsed only as a forearm with clawlike digits--who ...

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