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Beowulf

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In the age of heroes, a mighty warrior named Beowulf (Ray Winstone) arrives at the court of King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) and offers to rid the kingdom of a vicious demon called Grendel. He successfully slays the beast but thus incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie), a creature as vicious and vengeful as she is seductive.
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Critics Consensus

Featuring groundbreaking animation, stunning visuals, and a talented cast, Beowulf has in spades what more faithful book adaptations forget to bring: pure cinematic entertainment.

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Namrata Joshi Outlook Jan 25, 2019
2/4
Expectedly, there are large-scale, edge-of-the seat clashes and some classic savage scenes. There are other interesting touches and some quirky emotions. It's a philosophical play on what it means to be a warrior. Go to Full Review
Alonso Duralde MSNBC May 1, 2008
4/5
Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf is so rousingly entertaining that you'll feel guilty for not reading the epic poem all the way through when you were in ninth grade. Go to Full Review
Sandra Hall Sydney Morning Herald Feb 1, 2008
3/5
No doubt C.B. DeMille, another director with a knack for turning Hollywood stars into robots, would have been entranced. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Jun 9, 2025
3/5
...something of a noble failure, an attempt to harness Hollywood to access classic texts rather than comic book archetypes...in amongst the ruins, there’s the germ of what might have been a game-changing dive into turning great literature into great art. Go to Full Review
Ellie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Jun 6, 2019
3.5/4
The characters up on screen seem like living, breathing people. Go to Full Review
Kaleem Aftab The List Nov 3, 2018
4/5
Avary and Gaiman lay on the sexual innuendo and adultery, fleshing out the character of Beowulf into a believably unreliable narrator. Go to Full Review
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Kylo M Apr 26, 2019 Such an underrated movie. It's beautifully animated, action-packed and super enjoyable.
Poe S Jan 11, 2019 The worst movie I've ever seen. Too long, Boring, Looks terrible, This movie literally gave me a conniption.
Ron M Nov 10, 2018 wow. wtf IS this?????????? i barely lasted 25 minutes before i started skipping around to actions scenes i didn't care about. absolute garbage. the animation may have been good for it's time (questionable), but it looks terrible and feels absurdly fake. everything about it feels fake. the faces look super fake. the movement doesn't feel real. and worst of all, the sound design doesn't even help. grendel is a giant, i was expecting bass in the footsteps, not only was there no base, i could barely hear the footsteps at all. when someone gets thrown into a table, you barely hear the impact. and don't get me started on the weakest dragon roar i've ever heard. there were some cool looking scenes, and grendel had a cool and creepy design. but nothing could save this movie for me. it was basically over when i heard grendel's moaning lmao (1 viewing) See more
Jul 19, 2018 The CGI characters look relatively realistic, and the story is well brought, but the facial expressions are too bland to ever become very believable. See more
Luke R Jul 4, 2018 I forgot how much I loved this movie. I saw it several times when it first became available for rent many years ago. And now that I've discovered that it is on Amazon Prime, I've been watching it again and again. Great movie! See more
Anakin W Jun 16, 2018 Pros: way better way to experience the epic than reading Old English! Entertaining, full of drama and action and a star studded cast. Watching the movie made me want to look more into the poem itself. Cons: my biggest dissappointment is they took serious liberty with the plot line. Anyone (like myself) hoping to glean what Beowulf is will get serious mixed signals. Better to completely revamp the plot line like the Christopher Lambert movie so people know it isn't going to follow any actual poem plot points. Animation I am sure is very advanced for 2007, but it is going to date the movie over time, and I don't know why they even used it. Sure you need animation for a dragon, but to roast a pig? Also I didn't realize why images came very close to the screen until I read this movie was meant to see in 3D - it is dstracting to watch in 2D. I am not a fan of Angelina Jolie, and while you can excuse Beowulf for pausing, even an idiot would know not to stick his penis in a light socket. Geez! See more
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Synopsis In the age of heroes, a mighty warrior named Beowulf (Ray Winstone) arrives at the court of King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) and offers to rid the kingdom of a vicious demon called Grendel. He successfully slays the beast but thus incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie), a creature as vicious and vengeful as she is seductive.
Director
Robert Zemeckis
Producer
Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Jack Rapke
Screenwriter
Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Warner Bros., Shangri-La Entertainment, ImageMovers
Rating
PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Violence|Disturbing Images|Nudity|Some Sexual Material)
Genre
Adventure, Action, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 16, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$82.2M
Runtime
1h 54m
Sound Mix
DTS, Dolby SRD, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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