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Blue Flame (The Lost City of West River) is an example of a decent idea with real potential, backed by money and passion, but lacking in collaboration. Any time you see a film with the same name appearing as Director, Writer, Producer, Casting Director, Editor, etc, it stands to reason the project will nosedive. Film is, in nature, largely collaborative. One person, no matter their talent, cannot single handedly create a successful film. No one person can excel in all areas of filmmaking, and in a city like Vancouver it's easy to assemble a first class crew to make an impressive film, so long as you are willing to loosen the reigns a bit on your project.

It doesn't take much more than a basic eye for filmmaking to pick out where the bad ratings on this page are coming from. For example, the opening scene of Blue Flame (The Lost City of West River) reveals a lack of adequate sound mixing, revealing to the audience that this is a low budget operation. Throughout the 45+ minute episode, similar examples of bad editing and sound permeate. The errors made are akin to those made in a student production.

As for the acting, I disagree that it's poor. Brian Knox McGugan, Alexander J. Baxter, Joey Munroe, and Jessica Moutray shine in their roles and make the best of the lines they are given. It's clear that Baxter and McGugan, in particular, are destined for great things, and both can pull excellent footage from this production. As for Quinton Barr, his acting ability can't be denied, though he's an unusual choice for James Dowling. Barr's look and overall presence on screen are indeed marketable but perhaps not for the roles he would want to play. This project would have benefit greatly from input from a skilled Casting Director.

For a first project and for this budget, Blue Flame (The Lost City of West River) would have been an impressive final project with a skilled editor. With proper editing it could have done well on the indie festival circuit. There are many lessons to be learned from this, and hopefully the show can recover and move forward from these ratings.

I read the synopsis and thought I would download this 'show' What a waste of 20 mins download time on my slow internet connection. I watched a bit, flicked through a bit.... I wish I could unsee the whole poorly written terribly acted event. The script was not only bad but the delivery was worse than a school play that nobody wanted to be in.. There were no sets, just countryside, the clothing was like something off eBay and the pointed ears were not only a different colour to the rest of the skin but looked like something out of a Christmas cracker... terribly plastic badly delivered acting with no body language.. I presume this was written by a 4 year old? I very rarely write a review here but as a medic I feel I should prevent anyone suffering this absolute rubbish. Painful to watch, painful to hear. Given one star as cannot give a minus, although 10/10 for pain

The worst of the worst, save your time and never watch this horrible attempt at television.

Even the most dedicated fantasy adventure fan will want to avoid this drivel.

It's 46 minutes of your time you will never get back.

I've watched work better scripted and acted by K-12 students.

Everything about this show, except for the premise, is wrong. I would expect that a half-decent effort would make this quite watchable.

However, the acting is wooden. The costumes are low-quality cosplay at best. The sound is atrocious. Clear diction from one character and, in the same room, echo and hollowness from another character. The lighting is bad, the cinematography is bad, the incidental music is louder than it needs to be.

It is the very worst of the worst kind of fan-fiction attempt to broadcast something on YouTube.

Fantasy, so it should have elements of magic (magick perhaps) so special effects? Don't bother. Weak and lame.

It defies the laws of physics in that it sucks and blows at the same time.

No. No. No. Woeful acting and terrible sound. I survived for 5 minutes before deleting.

I hope some one would have told them about tiktok, they could have made better visuals from tiktok

Just seems like all the positive reviews were written by the same person.

3 minutes in and I shut it off. Terrible sound terrible acting... Don't waste your time

There are distinct shades of early Roger Corman here. The $25,000 dollar budget for a film set in a fantasy world leaves little room for a special effects budget. However the storyline is entertaining. Like many 1950s sci-fi i.e. Outer Limits etc...you need to look around the special fx rather than be drowned in them. That said, any role-player or fantasy fan who has ever dreamed of doing their own TV show needs to watch this and give these guys a high five for actually doing it. I hope this catches on and the budget goes up over time. Because there is a solid core idea here.

This was a good TV Pilot. Very good writing and acting. The lack of enough Budget was the obvious weak link in this show. I look forward to watching the rest of the show when it comes out and the budget increases.

I'm generally a fan of low budget B-grade movies always going in knowing they are never polished, but this is just horrible, horrid acting, horrid camera work, horrid sound, horrid CGI effects, almost comical practical effects that make the most cheesy 80s horror film effects look like masterpieces, horrible scene editing and overall editing and the list of bad things could go on and on forever with very few if any positives... I get it, it was produced by a one man army with no budget, and it shows, thus this should been shared with friends and family or maybe on an aspiring filmmakers Facebook or Youtube page, this is high school 101 level filmmaking at best, nothing that should have found it's way to Amazon Prime!!!

I like the story line. I wonder when the rest of the season will be coming out.

Please for the sake of your sanity,don't watch this series...5 minutes into the series and I was brain dead...

This looked like a fun project to work on. Creative plot that will allow the writers to have much freedom here. The lighting was quite good though for a Canadian project that's fairly common since they work with smaller budgets. The sound quality is lower than I would like however so hopefully they work on that. Looked like they had a blast working on this, the actors and actresses looked pumped which is always great to see.

The hero was great! They seemed to have started with a low budget, but I think the potential is there. Hope to see more episodes soon, hopefully they get picked up by a major network!