I watched “Gods of Egypt” last night

I don’t know why, I just felt like checking it out.

It was obviously a CGI money grab, while the story wasn’t exactly Shakespeare, it was better and more fleshed out than I expected. I found myself actually rooting for the protagonist (Bek) and his girl to make it.

Now onto the gods, since it’s such a silly movie, it was easy for me to get past the fact that these Egyptian gods were all British, American, or Scottish, even if it did make a lot of the Egyptian religious scenes seem very odd.

The story being told it’s not even close to the ancient religious myths, but I was actually pleasantly surprised about how the gods were portrayed. It seemed as if they did try to have the gods act in ways that were true to their description by the ancient Egyptians.

And although the story itself is not a real Egyptian myth, it was at least based in some actual Egyptian myths, and I felt like it was a “plausible” story that could fit in with the “real” story of Set vs. Horus.

Overall, it was a cheesy CGI fest, but it was better than what I was expecting, and I did actually care about the story which I did not expect to do.

It’s worth checking out as a mindless action movie as long as you don’t take it seriously or expect to be blown away by story and character arcs