(April 5, 2012) — Bad movies are a dime a dozen. Sequels to bad movies are thankfully less abundant but when they do rear their ugly heads, they are always good for a laugh. Wrath of the Titans, the sequel to 2010’s remake of Clash of the Titans , can be best described as a mess of video game cutscenes stuck together haphazardly with the hope of forming a cohesive plot. The movie follows Perseus (Sam Worthington)—who is apparently the only living person who can actually do something productive—as he fights to save his father Zeus (Liam Neeson) from Hades (Ralph Fiennes) and the main villain Kronos (who I don’t think even had a single line of dialogue). The acting is a laughable mess of cookie-cutter lines delivered by cardboard cutouts with the emotional capacity of door knobs. The plot is thrown at the audience without any pretense or backstory, and the movie has little if any sense of pacing. Any character that isn’t Perseus is a complete tool. The biggest example of this is Perseus’ son Helius (John Bell), who exists only to give a brief two-minute appearance at the very end to “give Perseus the strength to carry on.” All of queen Andromeda’s (Rosamund Pike) appearances, seemingly to replace Perseus’ dead wife, accumulates to only a single, forced kiss at the very last minute with not a single word of dialogue to establish their relationship as being anything remotely romantic in nature. Edgar Ramirez, who plays war god Ares, is easily the worst actor in the movie. I found myself trying to figure out what accent he was going for every time he was in a scene. Where he was supposed to be threatening and powerful, he just came across as a confused, blundering Neanderthal not quite sure of what role he was supposed to be playing and whether he was supposed to be taken seriously. The film’s only saving grace is the last battle. The last 20 minutes consist of a pretty epic battle involving the titan Kronos and an entire army of soldiers. The visuals are pretty stunning and make for a visually exciting, if not completely predictable, conclusion.