Liam Neeson: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

4. Zeus - Clash/Wrath Of The Titans (2010)

There's not a lot to be said about either of these, and they're lumped together here because they are essentially the same, worthless spectacle of shame and garbage. The only reason a sequel was made was because the first made so much money, but there can't have been many who walked away from either of these movies thinking they were any good. Clash was the start of Neeson's working because he needed to keep busy, as he said. The poor guy lost his wife, so naturally slack can be cut, plus being invited to play Zeus doesn't happen all that often. But slack being cut, it's obvious that Neeson is in these films just to be Liam Neeson playing Zeus. He got to wear shiny armor and scream and have a big beard and just kind of do Zeusy stuff, but the films are worthless spectacle and every great actor in them is just playing big for the sake of big. Simply put, they're bad scripts with bad direction because it didn't matter how the words were spoken, what mattered was fighting giant monsters and using A list actors as box office draw. Obviously it worked since they made two of them. Neeson's talent is wasted: Zeus is such an important character in Mythology that I'd love to see him play the character again and have it rank up there with his awesome performances... and not his sucky ones.