Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2008)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Terry Ingram

Writers:

Brook Durham (writer)
Kevin Leeson (additional writing)

Release Date:

12 April 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Cast

Arnold Vosloo	...	Odysseus
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mike Antonakos	...	Christos
Steve Bacic	...	Eurylochus
JR Bourne	...	Perimedes
Randal Edwards	...	Homer
Leah Gibson	...	Penelope
Sonya Salomaa	...	Athena
Jeff Sanca	...	Crewman #3
Stefanie von Pfetten	...	Persephone

Also Known As:

Odysseus: Voyage to the Underworld (USA)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

UK | Romania | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Plinyminor

How Bad Was It?

I've come not to expect much from any SyFy "original" movie. This particular one, though, plumbs new depths of bad writing, atrocious plotting, mediocre-to-bad acting and weak execution. It hijacked names from Greek mythology and applied them to the movie's two-dimensional characters in an attempt, I suppose, to give them some apparent depth, and then to compound the theft shamelessly grabbed some material from Christianity and Bram Stoker, and THEN, not content with making a complete mess of things, swiped an ending right out of any one of the "Halloween" movies. It was flat, predictable and never more than minimally interesting.