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In November 2007 director Robert Zemeckis brought us the hit film that is 'Beowulf'. It is based on the Old English epic poem of the same name and was captured in a similar way as was utilized by Zemeckis in his 2004 film 'The Polar Express'. I'm not usually a massive fan of motion capture films, but as soon as I saw the trailer for this film I just knew that I had to see it. 'Beowulf' really captured my imagination and as I prepared to view it I think that to say I was excited would be a gross understatement.

Cast in this film are people such as John Malkovich, Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie, and even Anthony Hopkins. With this being a motion picture, none of them physically appear but what can be noted when viewing this film is that the on screen representations of these stars bear a great similarity and resemblance to how all of them genuinely do look. This is a big budget production, you can see why it would have cost them $150 million in the making; it can not have been an easy task creating this feature and to have used such high profile cast must have been a greatly costly measure.

The film begins in Denmark, it's the year 507AD and problems are awry with the monster that is Grendel. Grendel has been annoyed by the noise that is emerging from the towns people as they celebrate the construction of the new mead hall Heorot. Grendel causes great destruction, King Hrothgar responds to this by making the statement that he will give half the gold in the kingdom to any person that can defeat Grendel. It is here that Beowulf steps in, arriving from Geatland he announces that he shall defeat Grendel and duly sticks to his word. It is here that the problems really begin for Beowulf as before Grendel died he returned to his mothers cave and told her who had done this to him. She is understandably seeking vengeance, and it is here that the film really starts to unfold as a series of events take place and things begin to change in Denmark. There'll be a lot of you already aware of how it all pans out, but for those of you that are not aware of this tale then I shall leave it at this and allow you to find out for yourselves if you so wish.

After viewing this film I was left in two minds about it all. The film was in places screened in 3D at the cinema and whilst I personally was not able to see it at one of these cinemas; I can understand how excellent it may have been to have seen the film in this form. That said, when the film comes to DVD then even those that had

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