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Ulysses : Voyage au coeur des ténèbres

Original title: Odysseus & the Isle of Mists
  • 2008
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
4.2/10
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Steve Bacic, JR Bourne, and Arnold Vosloo in Ulysses : Voyage au coeur des ténèbres (2008)
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ODYSSEUS, The Warrior King, has been away from Ithaca for twenty years. The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War; the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is th... Read allODYSSEUS, The Warrior King, has been away from Ithaca for twenty years. The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War; the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrific to tell; the missing book of The Odyssey known as... TH... Read allODYSSEUS, The Warrior King, has been away from Ithaca for twenty years. The first ten he spent fighting the Trojan War; the last ten he spent fighting to get home. Among his adventures is the tale Homer felt was too horrific to tell; the missing book of The Odyssey known as... THE ISLE OF THE MISTS.

  • Director
    • Terry Ingram
  • Writers
    • Brook Durham
    • Kevin Leeson
  • Stars
    • Arnold Vosloo
    • Steve Bacic
    • JR Bourne
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.2/10
    861
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    • Director
      • Terry Ingram
    • Writers
      • Brook Durham
      • Kevin Leeson
    • Stars
      • Arnold Vosloo
      • Steve Bacic
      • JR Bourne
    • 16User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    Arnold Vosloo
    Arnold Vosloo
    • Odysseus
    Steve Bacic
    Steve Bacic
    • Eurylochus
    JR Bourne
    JR Bourne
    • Perimedes
    Stefanie von Pfetten
    Stefanie von Pfetten
    • Persephone
    • (as Stefanie Von Pfetten)
    Randal Edwards
    • Homer
    Leah Gibson
    Leah Gibson
    • Penelope
    Sonya Salomaa
    Sonya Salomaa
    • Athena
    Perry Long
    • Old Homer
    Michael Antonakos
    Michael Antonakos
    • Christos
    Jeff Sanca
    Jeff Sanca
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    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Terry Ingram
    • Writers
      • Brook Durham
      • Kevin Leeson
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    3TheLittleSongbird

    O Homer, please give thanks that you aren't here to witness this atrocity...

    Actually I was using a bit of hyperbole, it wasn't as atrocious as I made it out to be in the summary, but to be honest it is still pretty bad. Some of the scenery and costumes are decent, some of the monsters are interesting and Arnold Vosloo is imposing and charismatic enough as Odysseus. However, the story is hackneyed and is very uneven in pace, the dialogue is a vast majority of the time absolutely abysmal, the direction is heartless, the pace is poor and the acting with exception of Vosloo is laughable particularly with Homer and the goddesses. While the ending comes across as rather cheesy. To conclude, pretty bad but there are some minor redeeming qualities. 3/10 Bethany Cox
    1steven-222

    Homer blinded himself to avoid seeing this.

    I didn't think SciFi Channel could broadcast a worse myth-&-monster movie than MINOTAUR. I was wrong.

    It's okay to make a movie on the cheap; not everyone has access to a big budget, and amazing things can be done with a little imagination and talent. But there's very little of those commodities here. Acting is at a high school level. Direction is worse. Dialogue is trite. Scenes lurch from one dull monster attack to another, with occasional babe (er, goddess) interludes to break the monotony. The goddesses look and sound as it they're reading cue cards at a second-rate beauty contest.

    Why must the makers of such movies mess with Greek myth, about which they clearly know (and care) nothing? Here, Homer the tale-teller appears as part of Odysseus's crew. That's an okay idea. Except this Homer (played by the worst actor of the lot, which is saying something) scribbles notes (with a feather quill!) and fawns over the heroes like an embedded reporter in Iraq. Legend tells us that Homer was blind, and recited his stories from memory. There is great power in that idea, a hearkening back to a prehistoric, preliterate age of traveling bards and oral tradition.

    A magical movie could be made about Odysseus, and Homer, but this is not it.
    spotter-8

    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.
    5guisreis

    A B-movie actually unrelated to Greek mythology (again!)

    This movie held during the journey of Odysseus after Trojan War included Homer as a man of his crew, what is impossible for three or four centuries. The expected beginning as a B movie (bad CGI and cliché dialogues will appear throughout the film) was followed by a scene in which the crew was concerned about the song of the sirens. When flying creatures appeared surrounding the ship I got surprised, asking myself: "would this movie be a rare case of true adaptation to Greek mythology?" Sirens were not mermaids, as they are recurrently portrayed nowadays, but partly women, partly birds creatures. However, soon I noticed that they were original creatures not present in any myth, and so is the mist isle itself. Demons who attack injured warriors exist in Greek mythology, but the rest of the story does not fit. Persephone and Hades' offspring, the Erinyes, were ugly winged creatures, but also quite different from those bat-like ones with shining eyes from the film, both physically and in their attributes. As a matter of fact, this is just one more B film aiming to have the flavour of Greek myths but no connection to them. The plot is a new version of the very same overly repeated story of a evil one trying to dominate the world. Besides that, Hades is, as usual, misaddressed as Christian hell and not as the Greeks saw it, and the fact that there is a "hellfire cross" in the movie is just one more evidence of it. Perhaps having inserted an original character, a diviner named Christos, is a Freudian slip. The ending, seeming a parody of Bram Stocker, mentioning vampiric creatures fearing the signnof the cross, is ridiculous.
    4webmouse

    Entertainment Value and not much else

    I really wanted to like this film. I truly did. The cast seemed excellent (although the inclusion of "Homer" should have told me all I needed to know about the script). Sadly, the best looking men on screen could not save this one.

    The language is always a problem, and I realize that it is hard to decide between going for pure period speech or making it all modern. I prefer the former with some latitude for comprehensibility, but too many writers today don't even realize how people spoke in times past, so the occasional slip into a modern cliché is just glaring.

    So as long as you don't pay any money for it and put your brain in neutral you'll get through it fine. Chant the mantra: entertainment value.

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    • Release date
      • April 12, 2008 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • Romania
      • Canada
    • Official site
      • SciFi.com
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Odysseus: Voyage to the Underworld
    • Filming locations
      • Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Insight Film Studios
      • Plinyminor
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      • £1,100,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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