I will not denigrate video games by comparing "Gods of Egypt" to them. Difference being, I have actually had fun playing video games. I will, however, compare the film to a franchise in the same medium, Michael Bay's "Transformers," which is pretty much as far from fun as I've ever experienced at the multiplex. The "Transformers" films render the theater a place where fun will find no purchase, where joy goes to be devoured by the howling darkness. But I digress. "Gods of Egypt" isn't that terrible, but it's close. Like Bay's films, it's noisy to the eye and ear, an utter mess of story and aesthetic, no subtext and all hypertext, and is bad in a most memorable way. It also features...
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