"Surprisingly Boll delivers an interesting film for once...although it was insanely B-movie-ish, I actually did not want to kill myself like I do in his other movies."
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I am really confused to say that this movie surprised me. I HATE Uwe Boll's films(primarily Bloodrayne, that is IMO the worst movie I have ever seen), but I was actually interested in this one.
The story was not that great, farmer man picks up a sword to fight evil yada yada yada we have all heard it before. The bad guys were kinda like orcs from LOTR....but you could tell that they were not real, bad costumes. The acting was horrible, with the exception of Jason Statham and Ron Perlman(who was friggin hilarious). Jason just did his normal man of few words thing, and Ron his normal blunt side cracks thing.
The visuals in this movie were alright. I have seen better.....like 5 years ago. Come on Mr. Boll you'd think a director of your caliber would have caught up on that.....not.
But besides the cliche story and the horrible acting and mediocre visuals, this movie somehow kept me watching. Maybe I'm just a sucker for sword flicks...I don't know.
But one thing I don't understand is how Statham never put armor on. You're about to go into battle man! Peasant clothes wont do it for you!
All in all, a good B movie. Probably Boll's best yet, which is pretty sad.
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