Christopher Lambert fights Grendel in a fortress where ancient legend has acquired industrial machinery and a techno soundtrack. The uncertain world-building and ungainly digital monsters turn the heroic poem into an unusually determined nightclub action film.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
Acting
7/10
Plot
8/10
Effects
8/10
Dialogue
7/10
Rewatchability
7.5/10
“The Anglo-Saxon literature seminar now has a smoke machine.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 75
Synopsis and movie facts
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.
