Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2008)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Terry Ingram

Writers:

Brook Durham (writer)
Kevin Leeson (additional writing)

Release Date:

12 April 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Cast

Arnold Vosloo	...	Odysseus
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mike Antonakos	...	Christos
Steve Bacic	...	Eurylochus
JR Bourne	...	Perimedes
Randal Edwards	...	Homer
Leah Gibson	...	Penelope
Sonya Salomaa	...	Athena
Jeff Sanca	...	Crewman #3
Stefanie von Pfetten	...	Persephone

Also Known As:

Odysseus: Voyage to the Underworld (USA)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

UK | Romania | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Plinyminor

Good or Bad

It's neither good nor bad, amateurish acting, poor direction with compentent special f/x,weak script/dialogue. Many movies lately just can't seem to get the language of a time period right without adding ridiculous modern dialogue clichés, slangs and what not. I kept waiting for one of them to pull out a cellphone because most the performances were phoned in, for me the beginning was the worse stupid twinkling lights in the background of scenes of them on the ship while long shots with harpies flying over head were of a cloudy twilight sky, so where did the twinkling stars come from....this is just pointing out one of many flaws and of course this ship was filmed in a studio with no water at all, I'm sure of it. If you're a fan of sword and sandal sci-fi adventure with sorcery and magic it only barely acts as an apetizer, a lightly flavored one at that, leaving you wanting terribly that you had The Odyssey starring Armande Assante in your DVD collection because watching all the hours of a rerun would be more satisfying than watching 90 minutes once you remove commercials of this drivel. I had tivo'd and fortunately was able to fastforward some simply painful dialogue moments in order to watch the special f/x. One thing to keep in mind few things shown as Sci-Fi Channel orginals they are really just productions from foreign markets like Canada, BBC, Germany or worse some reckless direct to video producer. Voslo does what he can but with this material its a wasted effort.