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'Beowulf': Hollywood Reporter cheers, Variety boos

November 10, 2007 |  3:30 pm

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Hollywood Reporter's review of "Beowulf": "Director Robert Zemeckis not only deploys 21st century movie technology at its finest to turn the heroic poem into a vibrant, nerve-tingling piece of pop culture, but his film actually makes sense of 'Beowulf.' In Zemeckis' hands, it's an intriguing look at a hero as a flawed human being." READ MORE.

Variety calls "Beowulf" "a muscular, sometimes stirring but ultimately soulless reinterpretation of" of the classic poem, adding, "For all its visual sweep and propulsively violent action, this bloodthirsty rendition of the Old English epic can't overcome the disadvantage of being enacted by digital waxworks rather than flesh-and-blood Danes and demons." READ MORE.

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