Osiris is about to crown his son Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) as the king of Egypt when Set shows up with an army to usurp the crown, killing Osiris, blinding Horus, and declaring war on the other gods in order to gain their power as well. The film’s prologue introduces us to the title characters: feuding brothers Set (Gerard Butler) and Osiris (Bryan Brown), explaining how the Egyptian gods are living amongst the mortals, towering above them in a visual that’s hard not to laugh at when you first see two different-sized people intermingling. Gods of Egypt may be arriving far too late to even be in the conversation with the latter. Thanks to the success of films like 300 and Clash of the Titans, every studio has been scrambling to latch onto their coattails with their own action-filled fantasy epics, which has ultimately led to diminishing returns for the weaker sequels to those films and obvious rip-offs like Immortals.
