Tower of Silence

This is a costume party. Someone mentioned Monty Python. It looks like it will be good. Maybe like a commercial for food. It looks good, but it isn't. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site; which has older theater films, and newer indies.

Don't be fooled, like me. Don't judge a film by its cover. In the vein of Tolkien and The Dark Tower, this most definitely is not. The Dark Tower is a poor book to film adaptation also a poor film in its own right but is watchable to the end.(just) The Tower of Silence is an abomination that cannot even enter the category of, "so bad that it's good". The acting ranges from extremely poor to just about passable. The dialogue is verging on the ridiculous. The story is a run of the mill fantasy/dark ages tale that's done so much better elsewhere. The choreography of the fight scenes is laughable. The special effects cannot be called special and they're not very effective either. The hordes of bad guys, 'The Fallen', must have all gone away on holiday as there's not very many of them here and they look like extras from a 1950's zombie film, but with less menace. I only managed to watch half of this film. Do yourselves a favour and don't try to watch it all, even if you get it as a freebie.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this film. Taking into account the film was shot in 2015, I felt it was enjoyable from start to finish. The characters are likeable and the film is shot beautifully. My only note is some of the special effects are a little low budget. Overall a great film that sucks you into a new world, well done to the makers and cast!

First things first. I hope the team enjoyed the production. Unfortunately the film uses almost every bad cliché you can imagine. The mask and special effects are poor. That may have been due to the budget, but it would have been nice if the zombies hadn't all looked like tired panda bears.

The story isn't very complicated, with a little more effort they could have made it more interesting.

What bothered me most about this movie, though, was the underground choreography of the fights. It's so bad that you want to shout to the makers: Guys, watch some sword fights on Youtube, you can learn a lot in the process. Or better yet, go to some live role-playing games and you'll get to see some good masks too.

I showed the film to my son (11) to give him a feel for how depressingly badly planned fights can look. The actors try hard, but unfortunately they don't get beyond that. It may have been the script, but most of the time they just seem confused.

I recommend everyone to save time and to avoid the film.

Clearly a lot of time and effort went into this movie and it's nicely acted ( I think the script sometimes makes the actors seem more wooden than they actually are ) and generally well shot. Sound is good too.

The pace is so slow. The story is simple. Pick up the pace though

The fight scenes are ridiculously choreographed ( more of a dance than a fight ) with the actors stood waiting for their turn to fight it looks stupid.

VFX is ropey and please get someone new to sort out your Greenscreen work as you can see an edge around all the greenscreen clips. ( either that or you've tried to fake a depth of field and it hasn't worked and it looks like badly cut out greenscreen )

I'd love to see more from this group with another movie and another story.