Gods of Egypt
Lionsgate | Release Date: February 26, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
25
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
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0
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10
Negative:
15
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The TelegraphRebecca HawkesJun 23, 2016
It’s utterly ridiculous – and impossible to resist. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliFeb 27, 2016
Gods of Egypt is often sloppy and fails in many ways but the cheesy momentum is hard to resist. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerFeb 25, 2016
It’s all quest, flash and high action. Read full review
50
The PlaylistNick SchagerFeb 25, 2016
It’s a spectacular mess that’s shameless in its desire to entertain through sheer, misbegotten excess. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyFeb 25, 2016
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. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 25, 2016
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. Read full review
42
The Film StageMichael SnydelFeb 26, 2016
While the film becomes a constant test to outdo itself, the raw ambition isn’t nearly enough to make up for the content of the actual film: an ungainly, ugly, nearly interminable monstrosity. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 27, 2016
It’s both thin and overstuffed, filled with intricate, at times dazzling set-pieces peopled by characters we don’t care about, and an irreverent sense of fun that nevertheless leaves us cold. It tries so hard… and ultimately achieves so little. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 25, 2016
If Gods of Egypt were any worse, it might be a masterpiece. Read full review
40
Screen DailySarah WardFeb 24, 2016
As audience-friendly as they may be, the cast is left wading through the middle ground between the unengaging narrative and over-emphasised aesthetics. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 25, 2016
There’s a long year ahead of us, but Gods of Egypt is going to stand out as one of the sillier, more puzzling big budget, special-effects driven period pieces to come out. Read full review
33
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonMar 2, 2016
Gods of Egypt is a dull, meandering, plastic mess of pre-2002 CGI and performances as flat as the green screens behind them. Read full review
30
VarietyJustin ChangFeb 25, 2016
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. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithFeb 26, 2016
Like the lobby of a Donald Trump building, it looks ever so expensive and amazingly cheap at the same time. Read full review
25
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenFeb 25, 2016
Imagine the worst costume epic imaginable. Imagine no more. It exists. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineDrew HuntFeb 25, 2016
Its virtues as throwback don't elide the foolhardly decision to imprint an ancient mythology on a contemporary superhero framework. Read full review
25
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeFeb 25, 2016
Gods of Egypt might have merited a so-bad-it’s-good schadenfreude fanbase had it maintained the unintentional laughs of its first 10 minutes. Instead, it skids into dullness, thus negating the camp classic that it so often verges on becoming. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyFeb 25, 2016
A shoddy special-effects howler that makes a hash out of both Egyptian mythology and human logic. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsFeb 25, 2016
Call it "Clash of the Whitans," and call it a folly that doesn't have the energy or delirium to qualify as entertaining crap. It's just crap. Read full review
20
Time OutAnna KingFeb 25, 2016
As the film totters to its predictable finale, the closing moments set up a sequel, a prospect far more terrifying than anything we've just seen. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeb 25, 2016
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. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Feb 25, 2016
Director Alex Proyas’ movie feels like a bad video game. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisMar 2, 2016
Avoid it like the plagues. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter TraversFeb 26, 2016
Some movies are so effing awful they're hilarious. Gods of Egypt falls short of that lofty goal. Not because it isn’t effing awful — it so is — but because it pretends to be in on the joke. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleFeb 25, 2016
Gods of Egypt is an epic — an epic disaster. Read full review
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