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I actually liked this movie. It was a pretty good fantasy movie. anyone else seen it.
Not knowing who Uwe Boll (the director) is, having never seen anything he's done, everyone told me it would be horrible just based off that. My expectations were very low, and so I enjoyed the movie just fine. I look at it like a 1983 fantasy movie that just happened to be shot in 2007, and under that light it's also not bad.
My wife is a huge Jason Statham fan, and so when we found the DVD for 10 bucks, we got it.
EDIT: It's best to think of this film as not existing in the same universe as the beloved LotR trilogy of films, of course.
-DM Jeff
Aside from Jason Stathum, and Ron Perlman walking a pig, this movie was utterly horrible.
"It's a wizard's fortress!"
"What does that mean?"
"The doors open from the inside!"
*siiiiiiiiigh* >_<
It was just okay but that makes it lot better than some of the fantasy films out their.
Sorry, just can't agree with you there.
I was initially impressed by the trailer and thought to myself "Uwe Boll has to have made a half decent movie at least once in his career". Turns out that- no, he's under no such obligation
I thought the DVD would never end- I've not been more bored and angry at a movie since Highlander II.
Meandering, derivative, pointless rubbish that makes Hawk the Slayer look like Hamlet.
Hell, it made the Dungeons and Dragons Movie look fast paced and tight.
I would pay double to have it expunged from my memory, only I'd be afraid I'd rent it again.
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Well - I didn't expect much - but I forgot my keys and had more than two hours to kill before someone else got home - so I watched it - now I think I might have fared better I I just sat at the bus stop reading...
The pacing was horrible, most actors were even worse then that and the dialogues and story were not even close to "decent action movie" and you don't need much for that. My "worst points" in an overall horrible movie:
- The not name nor title "farmer"
- elven acrobats
- how the "revelation" of farmers heritage plays out
- Ray Liotta (I like the actor - but he done a worse job then a certain award winning actor in the first D&D movie)
+ I liked the fx for the teleportation spell
+ The Blind Guardian Song played during the credits
This movie was indeed horrible, but in all the right ways. Uwe Boll is a modern day Ed Wood, and his movies are best watched with good friends and a bottle of rum. Let's see... there's Power-Rangers like fight scenes, Ray Liotta pronouncing evil-wizard edicts with a barely concealed Jersey accent, Burt Reynolds walking around with an "I'm here for the paycheck" look on his face, the amazing appear-out-of-thin-air Krug (who don't have a stealthy bone in their body), the list goes on. What's not to like? For the bad-movie enthusiast, that is. I am chuckling just writing this. I am planning on buying this movie on DVD when I see it in the bargain bin, and it will occupy a place on my shelf right next to "Plan 9 From Outer Space," "Showgirls," and "Robot Monster."
Come to think of it, Uwe Boll's output reminds me a lot of what Ed Wood could have done had he had an endless bank account..
Any movie where orcs light themselves on fire and then are shot out of a catapult can't be all bad.
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I need to comment on the villain's wardrobe. It looked like he dressed out of a gameshow host's trailer rather than a wizard's closet. Combined with his hairdo, this killed any sense of seriousness in any of his scenes.
I can find the awful script laughable in hindsight in the same way as I might enjoy a B-movie. Unfortunately, I cannot even enjoy laughing at this bomb enough to watch it again because of all the other problems it comes with. After the script and acting, the biggest hurdles are probably bad directing and timing. The scene changes were particularly jarring.
Let's not forget the ninjas. Yes, there are ninjas in a medieval flavored fantasy movie. And not just one or a small band sneaking around special-forces style. I'm talking about a whole frickin regiment of them, arrayed in a line of battle! They look more out of place than a Cleveland Browns fan at a Steelers-Ravens game (sorry Cleveland). My jaw just hit the floor when I saw the battle scene with the ninjas vs the Krug.