Dark Knight

I rented this from our local video store, hoping for what the back of the movie said was a fantastic fantasy including fights with dragons, magic and battle scenes. Ultimately, while there were no "dragon fights", there were several scenes of hand "animated" magic and overacting by the character Mordor. The overacting was to such an extreme it put his character into the borderline hilarity to allow us to have some comic relief.

All in all, I would have to say if you go into this knowing it's a "b" movie and need a good laugh, you're sure to get it. This could have been something great, but low budgets and cutting corners resulted in something that can't be taken seriously.

We rented this as a DVD called "Darkest Knight," based on the DVD cover and the description, which implied it featured dragon battles (it appealed to our five-year-old). Within a minute of watching, it was apparent that this was a TV series, not a movie.

The acting is frighteningly over the top. Ben Pullen was very charming in the romantic comedy "The Intern," but here he chews the scenery up -- but not as much as the show baddie, Mordour (yes, someone was reading Tolkien). All of the acting is beyond earnest -- old-school theatrical, and not very good, either.

The story of Ivanhoe is interesting enough on its own, but this series tries in vain to affect the location, style and appeal of the HERCULES and XENA series, but is, in reality, humorless.

The special effects are really laughable -- there's much better supernatural effects to be found on BUFFY and ANGEL. It's closer to "Power Rangers" than it is anything remotely like what Ivanhoe should be like.

A series well worth watching if you are into sword and and sorcery shows. There are fun characters and lots of great CGI effects. A show that the family can watch, but of course not to be taken too seriously. Great scenery and because of the British production style it has a feel different and in my view better than the usual American effort of this genre.

Great action sequences! Captivating and enchanting story lines. A breath of fresh air as English and New Zealand actors bring to life a colourful world of sword and sorcery, monsters and mayhem.

Highly recommended.

This is quite probably the worst movie/T.V. show made in the last 25 years. It was released in Canada as a DVD titled "Darkest Knight" with the depiction of dragons flying around a castle. At no point during the movie did the dragons appear in the movie as the liner notes on the cover suggested.

The acting was bad, really bad (try to picture Professional Wrestling goes to Medieval England). The special effects were worse than the acting. I remember better special effects in the original Lost in Space T.V. show from the 60's, complete with styrofoam boulders.

If this was 1950's television, I could understand the comparatively poor production standards but.... Take my advice, avoid this stinkeroo.