Warlord

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.

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.

Before I go any further, it is worth mentioning that apparently this had a budget of only £300. If that is correct then for the budget, it's an ok film.

However, the story line is very slow and it jumps to much. From the off it is very confusing and doesn't grip you. The acting is very subpar and the visuals are not appealing.

Billy Boyd does a good job in his role and if I am honest, he was my only draw to giving Warlord a chance.

A very disappointing film that somehow won some awards and had several nominations. If the budget had been much higher then this could have been an outstanding film, sadly it isn't.

I have given this 5 out of 10 due to the low budget.