Tubi featured this, so I looked it up. I saw Lance Henriksen was the sole draw and should have stayed away from it. Seriously, the only thing he was ever good in was Aliens as a souless android. Anyway, Rotten Tomatoes gave this 79%, the same Rotten Tomatoes that didn't exist when the 13th Warrior came out, but still gave it only 39%. I mention that movie because it is a Michael Chrichton movie based off his book, Eaters of the Dead, and had just watched it for the umpteenth time. That story had ups, downs, goods and bads, and the cast were well trained actors that weren't stiff in any of the rolls. Oh, and it was original. Back to this mess.
This story was very unoriginal, stealing its whole story from Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and King Arthur, just to mention a few. Every actor, including Lance Henriksen, was wooden. A poorly prepared elementary school play has better acting. The story line never gets up and goes. Ten minutes left in the movie, and I was still waiting for something to happen. It just muddled along from one plot hole to the next. The story was also very disjointed. This was very much like 1 episode of a 2 episode kids show in a 30 minute time slot that was drawn out to an hour and 22 minutes. My 17 year old daughter, who started watching this and expected it to go somewhere, said the same, that this all could have fit into a 15 minute slot with long advertisements thrown in.
More could be said about this mess, but no more time should be spent writing about a disaster than the disaster should have been allowed on the screen.
This story was very unoriginal, stealing its whole story from Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and King Arthur, just to mention a few. Every actor, including Lance Henriksen, was wooden. A poorly prepared elementary school play has better acting. The story line never gets up and goes. Ten minutes left in the movie, and I was still waiting for something to happen. It just muddled along from one plot hole to the next. The story was also very disjointed. This was very much like 1 episode of a 2 episode kids show in a 30 minute time slot that was drawn out to an hour and 22 minutes. My 17 year old daughter, who started watching this and expected it to go somewhere, said the same, that this all could have fit into a 15 minute slot with long advertisements thrown in.
More could be said about this mess, but no more time should be spent writing about a disaster than the disaster should have been allowed on the screen.