Review - Gods Of Egypt

MANY have already pointed out the blatant ‘white-­washing’ in this film (despite director Alex Proyas being Egyptian himself), as the cast is ­predominantly white, with some token ­characters of colour.
The tale is set a long time ago, when the ­Egyptian gods actually lived among mortals. They were like man but much taller and had gold running in their veins.
The story follows Bek (Brenton Thwaites), a thief who dreams of giving his love, Zaya (Courtney Eaton), a good life.
Not a big believer in the ­benevolence of the gods, Bek goes with Zaya to the coronation of Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who is to be crowned the new king of Egypt by his father, Osiris (Bryan Brown).
However, Osiris’ brother Set (Gerard Butler) shows up and kills the king, and after defeating his nephew, ­removes Horus’ eyes which are the key to the would-be king’s ­power.
Set then crowns himself king, imprisons the now blind Horus in his own temple and ­enslaves most of the people including Bek.
Zaya ends up a slave for master builder Urshu (Rufus Sewell), who is in charge of all of Set’s building projects.
Zaya encourages Bek to steal back Horus’ eyes which are housed in a highly-secured pyramid with the hope that it will restore Horus’ powers and defeat Set.
To cut a long-winded story short, Bek only manages to steal one eye, Zaya gets killed and Horus promises to resurrect her if Bek helps him to get back his other eye to restore him to his full powers.
Set finds out and sends his minions to stop them.
We also meet Sun God Ra (Geoffrey Rush), Horus’ grandfather, who lives on a spaceship and spends his nights fighting a giant alien worm.
The story goes round and round, and the CGI is ­nothing we have not seen ­before. With so many good actors in the cast, it is pity the movie is nothing truly ­spectacular.
However, there is a fan base out there for action and CGI-laden flicks, who may enjoy it.
Watch the trailer here: