Gods of Egypt

This action blockbuster is set in Ancient Egypt, where a mortal (Brenton Thwaites) convinces a fallen god (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) to help him overthrow the evil god-king Set (Gerard Butler). Drenched in off-putting computer effects, the story tries to be part superhero film, part fantasy adventure, failing to meet either goal. As the story gets more ludicrous, so, too, does the action, with obstacles so silly the mission becomes pointless. Faced with all this chaos, the actors are perhaps inevitably doomed to fail. Fresh-faced Thwaites and an eye-patched Coster-Waldau are a comically bad double act, but neither compare to the scenery chewing Butler. Geoffrey Rush looks embarrassed to be on screen, shrouded in CGI as top god Ra. An Egyptian tale with no Egyptian actors or accents, this is a textbook big-budget turkey full of pointless noise and extravagance.