Warlord

What in the hell did I just watch? I'm sat stunned by the sheer audacity that people are responsible for churning this plate of utter crap out. I've no idea of what actually went on because it makes no sense. Nothing really happens. It's just a complete waste of time and effort.

I love a good fantasy film but this is fantasy for the wrong reason. They've obviously fantasised that anyone would be slightly interested in watching such drivel.

The acting is terrible. The settings are done in some park woodland. The script and story are just all over the place. This is just so bad on all levels. Charges should be brought against all those involved in it.

My favorite actor is Bruce Campbell. While I enjoy blockbusters, I do enjoy B movies. First, the opening "Star Wars" scroll was not only too small to read quickly, but written so poorly I almost didn't watch the movie. There are some good actors, but not the elf leader. Speaking of Elfs.. my geek past of D&D and LotR.. Elfs are blonde, very thin, agile and great with a bow. Not in this movie. It was an ok movie and some mid and less characters were good actors. Writers and parts of the costumes were as bad as the poor, chunky elf leader.

A mini fantasy drama like a draft and sketch of 'Lord of the Moose'. It is entertaining and enthralling if you have nothing else to watch. The set design, costumes and visual effects were good to decent, while the storyline, script and flow were subpar.

If you would like to watch fantasy revolt movie, LOTR and The Hobbit are much better choices.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 4
• Production value/impact: 5
• Development: 6
• Realism: 3.5
• Entertainment: 4
• Acting: 5
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 6.5
• VFX: 6.5
• Music/score/sound: 6.5
• Depth: 4.5
• Logic: 3.5
• Flow: 4
• Psychological/fantasy/action/drama: 4
• Ending: 2.

The acting in this low budget fantasy film is quite good. Not surprising when you have actors such as Billy Boyd and Aliona Baranova, Jennifer English, and Devora Wilde of Baldur's Gate 3 fame. The direction, makeup, and costuming departments leave a lot to be desired. The editing and scene direction is atrocious. It's disjointed and awkward with some shots croping the focal actor out of the frame. Some of the makeup looks like it was applied by someone's kid sister with unblended eyeshadow and liners and elf ears that are sometimes blended to the actor's actual ear and sometimes not. The costuming has a few nice pieces but wow, that foam armor is absolutely terrible. It looks like someone's first attempt at making cosplay foam armor and they didn't read the rest of the tutorial on how to finish the look.

Overall, I can see the potential this film could have had but it sadly missed the mark mainly due to direction, editing, and poor makeup/costuming choices.

Who is this made for? I watched the entire first 30 minutes and still have no clue what this is about. Fantasy movie only in name and costumes. All they do is talk. Boring as boring can be. If you have children be careful, there is a scene where a guy is running in the woods naked and his privates are clearly outlined as he prances around. Bizarre. He gets caqptured, castrated and tar and feathered by the elves. Adds nothing to the movie except more disgust and makes no sense. This is not a spoiler, there is nothing here to spoil. I think that is the main action scene in this bore fest.

Listen, I adore Lord of Rings, most fantasy tv shows, and cut them a lot of slack. I forgive much. I am a fantasy geek hardcore. But this thing is not a proper movie. Not even a proper play. Every high school play is better than this. Maybe it was crowd funded? I want my half hour back.

I did fast forward to make sure there were no later scenes to redeem it. But no, zero.