Every now and then, my friends and I have a "pizza and bad movie night". Generally we select fantasy movies. Our latest outing was this...
First of all, it is almost three hours long, and boy, does it feel like four! The actors are generally giving it their best, but the budget is clearly very limited and nowhere more so than the CGI. The dragons, for the brief periods you see them, are so poorly rendered and animated that it was shame a 1990s TV movie, and this was made in 2012!
The story makes very little sense, and the internal logic is baffling at best. Everything revolves around "bloodsteel", which is a consumable magical material. There is a strange steampunk vibe to various parts of the worldbuilding which just seems out of place.
Some movies are so bad that they are entertaining, but this one was mostly just bad, despite the game attempts by the cast.
First of all, it is almost three hours long, and boy, does it feel like four! The actors are generally giving it their best, but the budget is clearly very limited and nowhere more so than the CGI. The dragons, for the brief periods you see them, are so poorly rendered and animated that it was shame a 1990s TV movie, and this was made in 2012!
The story makes very little sense, and the internal logic is baffling at best. Everything revolves around "bloodsteel", which is a consumable magical material. There is a strange steampunk vibe to various parts of the worldbuilding which just seems out of place.
Some movies are so bad that they are entertaining, but this one was mostly just bad, despite the game attempts by the cast.