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Screen Rant reviewsPercy Jackson the Olympians : The Lightning Thief
Disclaimer : I have not read a undivided Percy Jackson record book . I ’d never even heard of the book until news of the movie interpretation ofPercy Jackson the Olympians : The Lightning Thief(man , that ’s an annoying long rubric ) first surface . I assume that since theHarry Potterfranchise is almost played out on the big screen , that Hollywood might be take care for a fresh new series to pick up the baton once the Potter kin rides off into the sundown in their 24 carat gold , diamond encrusted Aston Martins .
As the film opens a gigantic man rises out of the ocean and head into the city ( human size by then ) . He is of course , Poseidon ( encounter by a rather flimsy looking Kevin McKidd ) . He meets with another fellow on the cap of the Empire State construction who deform out to be Zeus ( a moderately miscast Sean Bean ) - Zeus is accuse Poseidon ’s Logos of being " the lightning thief . " It seems that someone has stolen Zeus ' preferent item - and if it is not returned within two weeks he will announce war among the God .
Our presently - to - be hero Percy is played by 18 twelvemonth old Logan Lerman ( who does a fine job in the lead role ) . He looks young and is a ego - professed " loser " who pals around with his game friend Grover ( Brandon T. Jackson ) . Percy has some major dyslexia ( hallucinogenic , even ) and the only time he find peace is when he ’s in the water - he loves sit around at the bottom of his school ’s swim pool … for seven minutes at a fourth dimension .
He lives in a rough inner metropolis neighbourhood with his mammy ( Catherine Keener ) and his grungy , unmannered and malodourous stepfather ( Joe Pantoliano ) . I bed Joe , and he seemed to be in a different movie - bringing a greater deepness to his character in the few minute he was on screen than most of the other histrion did throughout the entire movie . The man isgoodat what he does .
It seems that Hades ( Steve Coogan ) also believes that Percy has steal Zeus ' lightning and he wants it so he can rule over all the gods himself . All way of mythological creatures are station after Percy and eventually he end up in a training inner circle for demi - idol ( kid of god / mortal coupling ) . There he meets Hermes ' son Luke ( young Kevin Bacon lookalike Jake Abel ) and Athena ’s beautiful warrior - daughter Annabeth ( Alexandra Daddario ) . Pierce Brosnan ( as a Centaur … weird ) tells Percy he must go to Zeus and explicate that he is not the thief - but first ( for some foreign understanding ) he needs to train to perfect his armed combat skills .
Well a situation rise that cause Percy to want to go to Hades instead of staying to prepare and head up to Olympus to verbalize to the big piece , and Grover and Annabeth take a firm stand on give chase along . What we get then is basically a route trip-up where they incline into some interesting adventures where they run into yet more well - known mythological creatures - that were in reality quite entertaining .
There were some conniption that were just chilling enough for kids , but nothing that should keep them up at night . If you ’re a parent , there was nothing that would give you interruption when it come to watching this with your children - very family well-disposed . There ’s natural action throughout the film and the climax was pretty impressive .
Overall I actually find out the film to be pretty good ( for what it was ) although it did n’t have the richness and depth that ’s present in theHarry Potterfilms - then again , maybe in those moving picture I ’m just impressed by all the British accents … josh aside , there ’s just a piddling something that ’s missing here , alike to the feeling I get from watching theNarniamovies - just something that ’s a footling too shallow about them that does n’t really hook you and drag you late into the cinema .
Having articulate that , there was an audience at the screening I attended and they seemed to savor the movie quite a bit , especially the kidskin in the interview . I thinkPercy Jacksonwill do very well at the box position and will no doubt engender a continuation or two .
Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson.
