MOVIE REVIEW OUTPUT

JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

This movie is recommended for those who needs a movie that can show the happenings from the Greek Mythology story, 'Jason and the Argonauts' or 'The Quest for the Golden Fleece'. If you're looking for a movie that you will enjoy because of the effect and such, I suggest you look for another.

Pelias is Jason's selfish uncle who killed his father, King of a kingdom. However, the King has a son named Jason and he escaped. A prophecy for Pelias was discovered: He will be killed by a boy who will enter his kingdom who wears only one sandal. The boy in the prophecy was Jason. They made a trade: Jason gets the kingdom, Pelias gets the Golden Fleece he was after. Sooner Jason then led the Argonauts (a group of men who will help him get the fleece). They sailed, hopping islands, met an oracle who helped them pass trough the moving, giant stones and to the Colchis. He met the King AEtes and asked for the fleece. King AEtes doesn't like the idea of the fleece leaving his kingdom so he set Jason trough hard challenges. Hera, a goddess, who was in favor of Jason asked Eros to make Medea, King AEtes' daughter to fall in love to him so she could help him pass the challeges. Jason rose triumphant. The King didn't follow his promise and engaged Medea to Jason so he will stay in Colchis. They stole the fleece from a dragon and escaped. On their way, they were chased by the King's army. In the end, they escaped with Medea killing her brother, Asyrthus.

This movie shows us that the most powerful weapon ever known to mankind is a soul on fire. Jason is really after the Kingdom so he endured all the challenges and did his very best even though he almost died on the way.

I find the casting fine. Almost all of them fit the roles, except for Orpheus. Being a fan of Orpheus and Euridice's story, I expected Orpheus to be a white man because they're in Greece and I thought Greece people are all white or kind if in the middle skin tone but Adrian Lester who played Orpheus...just didn't meet my expectation. Though his acting is fine. All of them really are fine. They're just kind of like robotic and it was as if they're stopping their emotions from flowing and they end up looking kind of try hard, especially Jason London who played Jason. He's like a robot with his expressions so serene even though the moment calls for some reaction he just stares. Maybe he likes to stare, I don't know.

I find the editing bad. It needs improvement. Comparing this movie to the movies which are out now is like, comparing Super Mario games back then to GTA. It really needs improvements. There was this part wherre Jason was talking to this half-horse, half-man guy and the horse part looked like it was kind of being dragged and it doesn't follow the body pretty well. Even if it's sort of minor, it does need improvement. Then those part when they showed Hera and Zeus in the sky? It's just...not good enough.

For the Sounds, I find some parts lacking the suspense sounds, some are exagerated. The sound doesn't fit for some scenes but it's fine if you're just after the story. There was this part where Jason's father was killed and the sound just doesn't fit much and kind of lame. Needs improvement too.

There were times when I was watching the movie and it kind of gets blurry because of the darkness, like in the part where Pelias' son was talking to one of the Argonauts. It was night and I find the lighting bad. In the chambers, where Jason stayed and Medea visit him... I had to really move my head just so I could look for angles where I might see it better. Need improvement too although most of the scenes were outside of the open.