Poor acting, poor directing, and bad action sequences. But the premise of humans being forged into weapons is a 10, and the story is decent too, which makes it worth a watch.
For a Chinese production, the action sequences are a disappointment. None of the actors are familiar with martial arts, and pretty much no effort was spent on making them look competent at all. Instead, they tried to make it as fancy as possible. Imagine Transformers or Star Wars prequels, but without all the stupid acrobatics. The scenes have a very sentai/comic book/manga feel, where it's mostly about "power ups" and powerful "moves". It's kind of like watching Bleach, where nothing really happens. Someone powers up and then does something flashy, and that's it.
There were lots of attempts at humor. None of it was really humorous. Even the gluttonous shield whose main quirk is to be funny fails to deliver and all you get is that they're quirky. Most of the acting is terrible. The knife wielding leader flailing his hands trying to act like he's throwing knives is kind of funny, I guess. The "silent" japanese chick is really just a piece of wood that can recite lines.
Even worse than the actors is the script. The main character can't decide if he wants to be a hero or a loitering loser, so he will alternate between them at the flick of a switch. The brother is clearly a masochist, but he righteously plays hero at the end. There's a traitor, but the enemy decides that they can't find their base even though he's been there for years. The fire sword that wants to play solo randomly decides to intercede in random conflicts, and some people just randomly get killed because they need to be killed off for the story to proceed *shrug*. They decided to have the MC "awaken" at the end, just because he has to. It didn't actually end up being useful at all. There's basically around 10 plot points and a lot of things thrown in between them "just because".
For a Chinese production, the action sequences are a disappointment. None of the actors are familiar with martial arts, and pretty much no effort was spent on making them look competent at all. Instead, they tried to make it as fancy as possible. Imagine Transformers or Star Wars prequels, but without all the stupid acrobatics. The scenes have a very sentai/comic book/manga feel, where it's mostly about "power ups" and powerful "moves". It's kind of like watching Bleach, where nothing really happens. Someone powers up and then does something flashy, and that's it.
There were lots of attempts at humor. None of it was really humorous. Even the gluttonous shield whose main quirk is to be funny fails to deliver and all you get is that they're quirky. Most of the acting is terrible. The knife wielding leader flailing his hands trying to act like he's throwing knives is kind of funny, I guess. The "silent" japanese chick is really just a piece of wood that can recite lines.
Even worse than the actors is the script. The main character can't decide if he wants to be a hero or a loitering loser, so he will alternate between them at the flick of a switch. The brother is clearly a masochist, but he righteously plays hero at the end. There's a traitor, but the enemy decides that they can't find their base even though he's been there for years. The fire sword that wants to play solo randomly decides to intercede in random conflicts, and some people just randomly get killed because they need to be killed off for the story to proceed *shrug*. They decided to have the MC "awaken" at the end, just because he has to. It didn't actually end up being useful at all. There's basically around 10 plot points and a lot of things thrown in between them "just because".
