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Beowulf

4.3 / 10

95 minutes

1999-03-31

English

FR

Actors :

Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra, Oliver Cotton, Götz Otto, Vincent Hammond, Charles Robinson, Brent Jefferson Lowe, Roger Sloman, Layla Roberts, Patricia Velásquez, Robert Willox, Marcel Cobzariu, Vlad Jipa, Diana Dumbravă, Andrei Rusu

Description

Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar. He has a daughter, whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

8/28/2023, 10:15:53 AM

What could have possessed the "Highlander" himself to participate in this nonsense? Based (very) loosely on the old poem, this tries to modernise the story (it even features tannoy speakers) and give it a contemporary feel - though still using the costumes and weapons of the original time. Our eponymous hero rescues a maiden then takes refuge with Oliver Cotton's "Hrothgar" in his fortress - only ...