Cooper Beowulf

The thing about choosing one scene to fix from Beowulf is that all the scenes need to be fixed. Its incredibly hard to pick one scene thats worse than the rest of the atrocities. Throughout the whole movie, the viewer suffers through awkward CGI and a bad script. The scene that needs the most fixing is the fight scene between Grendel and Beowulf in the Mead Hall and the lead up to it.

In the scene below everyone's movements are stiff and choppy. Also the lack of animation on their faces adds a creepiness level to the whole film because it makes it feel like everyone is a zombie. The lighting in the scene also made everything hard to see, and though it seemed like they tried to keep it realistic with how much light the torches would produce, they ignored where the torches were placed and did their own lighting scheme.

Also, I can never forgive when character's are unbelievably stupid. That Norseman has to know that if goes to open that door he will die. They know that Grendel enjoys coming to their mead hall and killing everyone inside. Why would that change?
The fight scene itself shows Beowulf becoming a ninja and leaping from rafter to rafter until he expertly surprise attacks Grendel like Batman would one of his victims. The thing about this is that Beowulf is a viking. He's not suppose to leap around in the rafters. He's suppose to run up to Grendel, punch him in the face, and then rip off his arm.
Beowulf essentially fights like a coward in this fight.

Its because of scenes like this that a potentially epic movie falls short of everyone's expectations and I'm willing to bet this movie didn't drive anyone to go back and read the epic tale its based off of.