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Beowulf

Beowulf

  • Status: Released
  • 31-03-1999
  • Runtime: 95 min
  • Score: 4.4
  • Vote count: 229

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.

Christopher Lambert

Beowulf

Rhona Mitra

Kyra

Oliver Cotton

Hrothgar

Götz Otto

Roland

Vincent Hammond

Grendel

Charles Robinson

Weaponsmaster

Brent Jefferson Lowe

Will

Roger Sloman

Karl

Layla Roberts

Grendel's Mother

Patricia Velásquez

Pendra

Robert Willox

Chief Officer

Marcel Cobzariu

Lookout

Vlad Jipa

Sentry

Diana Dumbravă

Hrothgar's Wife

Andrei Rusu

1st Soldier

Vitalie Bantas

1st Guard

Dan Alexandru

Eyepatch Lieutenant

Florin Preoteasa

Executioner

Iulian Ilinca

Executioner's Assistant

Dorin Zaharia

Siege Soldier

Adrian Pavlovschi

Guard

Derik Wingo

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What could have possessed the "Highlander" himself to participate in this nonsense? Based (very) loosely on the old poem, this tries to modernise the story (it even features tannoy speakers) and give it a contemporary feel - though still using the costumes and weapons of the original time. Our eponymous hero rescues a maiden then takes refuge with Oliver Cotton's "Hrothgar" in his fortress - only for them all to be attacked and brutally picked off by the shape-shifting "Grendel" - a sort of "Puff" the magic dragon type effect with a gravelly voice.... The production and visuals aren't the worst, but the very heavily made-up Lambert - sporting a peroxide coiffure, and the terribly wooden Rhona Mitra ("Kyra") ensure that this film positively groans as it lumbers along. The soundtrack appears to have found a mind of it's own - and what dialogue there is adds virtually nothing to the "we all do what we have to do" style storyline. Whatever you do, stick around for the end - it's hilarious! This film is a shocking waste of good source material that really isn't anyone's finest work.