Empire Queen: The Golden Age of Magic

We made this movie for all fantasy adventure movie lovers, with a twist of comedy to make for a light-hearted movie night. It's a classic tale that pays homage to the fantasy films you love. Each element of the film was designed to make for a fun and exciting ride that goes by faster than you would expect. From the characters and costumes to the locations and props, we set out to make something visually impressive and we feel we did that given our humble resources. This project is the culmination of 15+ years of creativity and was truly a labor of love for all of us involved. We hope you enjoy watching it just as much as we enjoyed making it.

Don't know where to start with this.

I love a campy fantasy as much as the next man, but this is just a bit pants.

The acting. Wooden, but not wooden in an over played kind of way, it's just, well.. it's wooden.

Think a porn film, & you're close. Some of the actors & actresses look like any second they're going to "whip out my magic wand", if you get what I mean.

The sound is also, haha, wooden. As if recorded within a shed. There's a bit of an echo, bit of background noise. It's just not ever so clear. Some of the sound is also off, not matching up with the actions.

The backgrounds. Not gonna believe this, but it looks wooden. A mass of CGI for interior shots. Looks okay, but looks very flat.

Me & the missus managed about half a painful hour of this before giving up.

I'm giving it a FOUR as it's a good attempt.

I wanted to like it, I wanted it to be not too serious.

It's not for me...

We were very pleasantly surprised by how fun and adventures this new fantasy film is. Plus, the cinematography, costumes and score are first class, and really lifted the experience for us.

We noticed that its not a studio film either, rather an independent, which makes it even more impressive. Our whole family really enjoyed it. Laughed out loud a few times too. (Fart Dart-Ha)

It's very good for kids. (our son is 10 and daughter 14) It has a Princess Bride flavor to it, and that is rare. We gave it 8 Stars, and would watch it again (especially my son)

Of note, the two female leads, Ciel Post, and Mary Elise Hayden, are terrific playing against each other.

At first we were concern by the longer running time, and worried the kids might get bored. Its not the case here, we were surprised how fast and well paced the movie is. - Hope they do a sequel!

This is one of the worst films ever made. Every possible aspect, acting, cinematography, sfx, and especially writing are terrible to an almost Ed Woods level. Do not watch this. The "filmmakers" should feel shame for this. This is not a film, this is two and a half hours of incompetence.

The actors don't seem to understand what emotions are, probably because they are too focused on maintaining their atrocious "fantasy" accents. The costumes range from "bought at a ren fair" to "bought at a spirit halloween". The plot, if it can be called that, consists of a ten-minute opening crawl and then several hours of the characters walking and telling each other backstories.

The special effects are 100% plugins purchased from an asset store, and never correlate to what happening on-screen, or to what the actors are doing. At least half an hour of footage is dedicated to random women that the directors wanted to ogle. Every location or scene has two to three names that are basically gibberish.

In short, I feel strongly that this an insult the concept of filmmaking.

Everything about this film is a masterclass in how not to make a movie. The acting is painfully unconvincing, as if the cast were reading lines for the very first time, and wishing they were somewhere else. The dialogue is so poorly written it feels like it was cobbled together by an unenthusiastic AI from the early 2000s. The so-called "special effects" are laughable, a parody of visual spectacle that somehow manage to make even the most basic scenes look absurd. This isn't just a bad movie, it's an insult to the audience's time and intelligence. Frankly, the budget would have been better spent on almost anything else, charity included.