By all accounts, “Gods of Egypt” is not a good movie. You can reference any review, any ranking website, anything, and you will find a general murmur of dissent around the making of this movie, the message of this movie, and pretty much everything else about this movie. But that doesn’t inherently make a movie unwatchable, and as many have pointed out, this movie is actually entertaining, thanks in part to its flaws.
If you go in knowing exactly what to expect, this is a movie that can satisfy. Even though the New York Times berates the whole movie, it leaves a familiar sentiment: “If ‘Gods of Egypt’ were any worse, it might be a masterpiece,” adding that watching the movie is “a demented entertainment” before admitting that it was indeed enjoyable — perhaps from a so good it’s bad standpoint, but still good by that standard.
The Guardian smashes the movie’s qualities to bits but still resolves to call it “tremendously fun.” They go on to highlight what makes “Gods of Egypt” so unique, and that’s its “sheer number of fantastic and antic set pieces” spanning from the depths of the underworld to the tops of pyramids.
So yes, this is not an acclaimed movie, but both the New York Times and Roger Ebert hail various parts of its entertainment value — the action sequences, the backstory, and the visuals.
