I want to start this review by saying that going into this film, I was ready to give it the benefit of the doubt as it's a low budget film trying something that could be considered ambitious. That being said, some flaws were inexcusable, saw as the writing. A lot of the dialogue felt stiff and completely fictionalized, as if the writers didn't actually hear themselves saying it out loud. This isn't help by a lot of the line delivery being patchy at best. Some scenes don't make much sense and some are completely unnecessary.
That all being said, I think there is an enjoyable experience to be found here. By no means am I planning to revisit this, at least not any time soon, however I did find myself enjoying parts of this. A lot of the action scenes were extremely interesting to me visually, with camera movements and sound effects used to add a real weight to it. The score also surprised me with how good and fitting it was to the film and it's setting. The film had some interesting ideas that didn't really get brought to their full potential, whether that's because of the horrendous CGI Dragon or the shoddy writing I don't know.
Regardless I think there's a good time to be had here if you just switch your brain off, take it for what it is, enjoy the few things it does well and laugh at the stuff it does badly. I feel my score of 4/10 represents this film perfectly.
That all being said, I think there is an enjoyable experience to be found here. By no means am I planning to revisit this, at least not any time soon, however I did find myself enjoying parts of this. A lot of the action scenes were extremely interesting to me visually, with camera movements and sound effects used to add a real weight to it. The score also surprised me with how good and fitting it was to the film and it's setting. The film had some interesting ideas that didn't really get brought to their full potential, whether that's because of the horrendous CGI Dragon or the shoddy writing I don't know.
Regardless I think there's a good time to be had here if you just switch your brain off, take it for what it is, enjoy the few things it does well and laugh at the stuff it does badly. I feel my score of 4/10 represents this film perfectly.