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Found footage in the style of many others; unoriginal plot; poor dialogue; badly acted. There's nothing of merit here. Avoid wasting your time.

Three guys go into woods to make a survivalist documentary. They are all annoying, illogical, thin, pointless characters, making poor decisions, repeating dialogue, situations, decisions, ... it's all appalling. You can guess what happens, what scenes there will be and how it ends. So save your time and don't watch.

The prologues/epilogue scenes are silly - that's a static camera they pick up, not a video camera, so it wouldn't have been the camera providing the found footage.

The early bar scenes have odd sound quality. I think it was recorded, then audio added later. Badly. The bar tender seemed to be the best actor on show.

You can't "spoil" this movie - the makers already did that.

When it ended, I wasn't 100% convinced it wasn't a parody, such was the unrelentingly dreadfulness of it.

You watch a movie on the SyFy channel, entitled "Mythica: A Quest for Heroes" and your expectations aren't set high. Released this year, and you think "uh-huh". However, Mythica, is a surprising treat.

The opening, pre-credit scene, with clunky cgi leads you to lump what's to come in with the majority of SyFy's home-grown output, but pretty soon you release this is much better.

The plot is decent enough, the script is good, and the actors give a good show, especially the female lead, in a strong, interesting role.

We're in low-budget territory, but the "flash-back/forward" scenes are nicely done, and it's only the larger 'monsters' that suffer from the lack of budget. Fight scenes are so-so, but there's a decent depth to the characters, and the story. It's pleasant, and up-lifting ... just because it's low-budget, they haven't scrimped on the script, and it's nice to see a fantasy tale handled seriously by all concerned.

The first part in three films, it stands fine by itself, whilst leading into the larger story. Some characters are a little thin, but this is 'D&D' territory, so there's a typical collection of characters to expect.

This isn't a Hollywood blockbuster, but for what it is, it does very well. I'd rather watch a movie trying to be something, than one which just pads time, without any originality. Mythica is a good, entertaining watch. Let's hope the sequels live up to this good opening.

Well done to all involved.