<P> Beowulf ranked #1 in the United States and Canada box office during its opening weekend date of November 18, grossing $27.5 million in 3,153 theaters . </P> <P> As of April 27, 2008, the film had grossed an estimated domestic total of $82,195,215 and a foreign box office total of $113,954,447 for a worldwide gross of $196,149,662 . </P> <P> The film was met with mainly positive reviews . As of October 20, 2016, on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Beowulf received a rating of 71% certifying it as "Certified Fresh", based upon 195 reviews . On Metacritic, the film had an average score of 59 out of 100, based on 35 reviews, indicating "mixed or average" reviews . </P> <P> Giving Beowulf three out of four stars, Roger Ebert argues that the film is a satire of the original poem . Time magazine critic Richard Corliss describes the film as one with "power and depth" and suggests that the "effects scenes look realer (sic), more integrated into the visual fabric, because they meet the traced - over live - action elements halfway . It all suggests that this kind of a moviemaking is more than a stunt . By imagining the distant past so vividly, Zemeckis and his team prove that character capture has a future ." Corliss later named it the 10th best film of 2007 . Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers argues that "The eighth - century Beowulf, goosed into twenty - first century life by a screenplay from sci - fi guru Neil Gaiman and Pulp Fiction's Roger Avary, will have you jumping out of your skin and begging for more...I've never seen a 3 - D movie pop with this kind of clarity and oomph . It's outrageously entertaining ." </P>

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