The modern - day updates of these old myths are minor and not particularly
imaginative — Coogan plays Hades as a strutting Alice Cooper type, while Percy uses the reflective surface of an iPhone as a mirror to avoid looking Medusa in the eye — but at
least Riordan's books have a rich background to serve as source material for the
story's chases and swordfights.
«The Film Critic» is primarily an
imaginative look at a budding romance between two quite different people, but in addition the
story is filled with amusing side characters such as Victor's fellow critics who often seem comatose at the advance screenings and especially Leandro Arce (Ignacio Rogers), who would like to kill Victor as his films have been regularly panned by Victor, and whose columns have relegated at
least one movie editor to a menial job.