as far a movie go and this one have what be popular represent action and adventure and sex and blood and and lot of twist that will keep you guess what the truth be . however and if you have read beowulf ( which and judging by the review and be a small number of people ) and and you appreciate the character and hold them in a place of dignity and respect in your mind and then forget about appreciate anything about the movie . though beowulf be portray in the epic a the great leader and hero who never have do a dishonorable deed and he be and in the movie and portray a a liar and a deceiver . he defeat grendel by close his arm in a door . he never kill grendel mother because she seduce him and together and they beget the dragon . how do this even make any sense . he return to the geats claim to have defeat grendel mother and be then make king by hrothgar . this be and of course and good for beowulf and because he have a thing for wealtheow and hrothgar wife and anyway . the kind and noble king hrothgar have also be degrade to a cheating husband who also sleep with grendel mother ( hence the existence of grendel ) and who end up kill himself after make beowulf king . the only noble deed that beowulf seem to achieve ( in the movie ) be by sever his own arm from his body and by tear out the dragon heart with his bare hand ( neither of which be in the book and by the way . ) funny and in the book and i do not remember the fight with the dragon leave the cave at all . we can only pray that someday someone do this epic justice and make a decent film out of it . until then and i give this steam pile of movie a one . out of ten .