While I definitely prefer these low budget fantasy flicks over, lets say, any sort of low budget horror and action ones, I still can't really say that this is a great movie as well.

Thing about fantasy movies is that they are creative and entertaining ones to watch, no matter what. No matter how formulaic and poorly made, there is always something to enjoy about them. And yes, there is plenty to enjoy in this movie as well. I actually had a pretty good time watching it but there still is no denying that this movie isn't without its flaws.

The one and main thing that still makes this movie a pretty unique one is that fact that it features ancient evil Orcs, who's biggest enemies aren't sword wielding knights or arrow shooting elves but modern day people with modern day weapons instead. That's right, it's Orcs against machine guns, swords against pistols and hand grenades against shields. Doesn't sound sounds like a fair match and indeed, the Orcs never come across all that threatening but it's all fun to watch nevertheless.

The movie doesn't involve time traveling but it involves dimension traveling instead, or something like that. I don't really know, since the movie doesn't really ever explain anything but it also really doesn't matter. The movie isn't really all about its story anyway but more all about its entertainment instead.

And while it all works out entertaining enough, this at the same time is also one of the movie its downfall. It isn't exactly a very convincing movie story-wise and it's hard to ever take it serious. This all also makes it all the harder to ever care for any of the character who are in it. All of the characters are extremely poorly developed ones anyway, so it's not like the movie had a very good foundation to begin with. The movie is too focused on bringing entertainment to the screen but not enough on making us care about anything that's going on in the movie.

It's a low budget movie, so of course it also isn't the most impressive one to look at. Seems that whenever they aren't filming a Lord of the Rings or Hobbit movie, you can borrow all of the Orcs costumes, for a very friendly price. It's funny how all 'modern' movies Orcs look like but also sound and behave like Lord of the Rings Orcs nowadays. It's not a big complaint but it's starting to get a bit of an annoyance. Another 'annoying' thing are the movie its special effects. Of course stuff like dragons are never going to look real in these cheap type of movies but when the movie uses fake looking CG blood and fake looking muzzle flashes, you still have a right to complain, especially when the movie loves to overuse both of these things. Having said that; the action in this movie often remains pretty enjoyable to watch, regardless of everything, though it does all starts to repeat itself after a while.

A bad and cheap looking movie, that luckily still remains entertaining enough to watch though. You won't feel bored while watching it and there seriously are far worse things you can spend 90 minutes with.

5/10

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How many good vampire comedies are there out there? Well exactly, hardly any and no, this one really isn't much good either.

It's really weird. Vampire movies always had been pretty popular throughout the decades but yet no one seems to know how to take all of its genre clichés and use it to turn it into a funny and creative comedy. And it's not like the right material isn't there but for whatever reason vampires just don't lend themselves very well to humor, it appears.

As for this actual movie; it's definitely worse than most other comedies out there.

The funny moments are there, the right type of dialog is there but yet none of it ever clicks. Guess it shows that you could come up with- and write down all the funny stuff that you could think off but turning it into a good and funny comedy is a whole different kind of thing. It's really true that the comedy genre is one of the hardest ones out there to work in. You need to build things up properly, time things till perfection and need to have a good and talented cast to properly deliver the lines and execute the movie its physical comedy. It's hard to say who or what is to blame for this movie its failure but it's most likely a combination of various different elements.

And one of them most definitely is its story. It's not all too creative or clever about anything and yet again it's one of those vampire movies that comes up with its own rules. And that's fine really but it at the same time it also leaves a lot of stuff unexplained and likes to break its own rules- and come up with new ones, pretty much all throughout.

But the thing that annoyed me most about the story were its characters. Every character you are supposed to care about does something despicable and absolutely unforgivable in this movie, that makes you go hate him/her. Yes, even the movie its main characters and what's even worse is that characters who start out as the good 'guys' later on turn into the movie its villains. In other words, the movie makes it very hard for you to ever care about anyone in this movie. The movie makes some weird and bad choices with basically all of its characters, which really makes you dislike this movie in parts.

It's really not the worst of most offensively bad movie out there comedy-wise but story-wise and the way everything gets buildup and handled, make this an absolutely terrible watch!

3/10

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