Gods of Egypt's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
It?s a spectacular mess that?s shameless in its desire to entertain through sheer, misbegotten excess.
The A.V. Club
A treasure trove of gilded fantasy bric-a-brac and clashing accents, Proyas? sword-and-sandals space opera is a head above the likes of Wrath Of The Titans, but it rapidly devolves into a tedious and repetitive succession of monster chases, booby traps, and temples that start to crumble at the last minute.
Roger Ebert
The alternately cornball and self-aware dialogue and the clearly not state-of-the-art CGI would seeming charmingly retro (like something from a TV miniseries two decades ago) if the movie didn't trot out one epic action film cliche after another.
Cine Premiere
The historic proposal is unoriginal and sports a brutal misinformation. Some comic episodes are shocking and overall tragedy is not credible. But nothing that a few tweaks and special effects can not solve.
New York Times
If Gods of Egypt were any worse, it might be a masterpiece.
Screen Daily
As audience-friendly as they may be, the cast is left wading through the middle ground between the unengaging narrative and over-emphasised aesthetics.
Variety
This is by any measure a dreadful movie, a chintzy, CG-encrusted eyesore that oozes stupidity and self-indulgence from every pore. Yet damned if Proyas doesn?t put it all out there with a lunatic conviction you can?t help but admire.
Clarin
Not all that glitters is gold, what shines is the lack of history, well-constructed characters here.
New York Post
Like the lobby of a Donald Trump building, it looks ever so expensive and amazingly cheap at the same time.
The Hollywood Reporter
This overstuffed, witless and bloated stillborn $140 million epic is unlikely to spawn the studio's intended franchise ? unless, as is so often the case, international audiences come to the box-office rescue.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote