AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

nzallblacks_12 Despite its all-star cast (Christopher Lambert, Brian Blessed, James Faulkner) this film falls flat. And it happens right from the opening scene. Thereafter, it's caught in a never ending free fall. Last glimpse, this trash production spiraled straight into the abyss.This should have been an interesting tale. After all, at its core theme is the Spanish Inquisition. How can you muck that up? Well, the Mexican director did. As an excuse he proffered."We in Mexico knew about the Inquisition. Europe on the other hand much rather chose to hide it."Uh, sure you did. And if he had such esoteric knowledge which he wanted to share, it didn't appear on film. Instead he offered us the usual: porn, bloody gore and much stilted acting even dreadful humor.The script was fine. The problem was that the actors/director failed to 'execute' (scuza the pun). This failure of epic proportions is most noticeable in the dialog. Unfortunately the speeches were well, oh so wooden.Here's a prime example. Ruy (Lambert) a main character the town's honest but too much of a wine-imbibing servant addresses his mother."There you go again. You speak in a mystery language. I'm confused."Want another one? The new Governor (Brian Blessed) tries to act contrite in the confessional with the Inquisitor's much prying (real) priest."Bless me father for I have sinned. Blah, blah, blah...(he does say these banal words). In the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit."Holy Cow! Even at that early 'flash' point, I wanted to puke.Too late. The Inquisition was in session. It had to get better, but I was wrong. Make that, the director took another tangent. It seems he sailed back to Mexico, where he belongs.The film though did have a few redeeming qualities. One came in the form of a Hungarian mercenary (played by a real Magyar). Blessed hired him. So, how could he not be good/bad?The second was in the costume and set designs. Both were masterpieces. And its no small wonder. Again, real Magyars worked behind the scenes. Like me, they would not settle for anything less than all world perfection. At least the Magyars got their act together.You may already have guessed: the author too is a real Hun, by the way of Sicily though.

BumBumy First of all , Christopher Lambert had some good movies , like Mortal Kombat , Absolon , Beowulf , Fortress 1 ( Better then Fortress 2 ). About Day of Wrath , well the first part of the movie is like a mind game , you don't know what is really happen , but then .. you realize what is all about and the movie start getting a interesting way and keeps you awake. I loved the last 25 minutes of the movie , when he found the list and saw his name with other Jews and when he speaks with his uncle he found the true about the crimes and the only way to survive is to have 2 identities. Is like "You gotta to what you gotta do".

tikva1098 I agree with the previous commenter about the script and the fast pace of the editing. It does the movie disservice. What would have made it better would have been to let the characters shine through a little more. I do think that for a low budget film it had an interesting, well thought out story. I was surprised by this, and despite the poorly choreographed fight scenes (why were all fighters, even henchmen, better than Lambert), I was still interested because of the historical engagement of the plot. I also agree with the previous commenter that the Hungarian actors were good. I think it is clearly a B movie, but not a bad one.

dwayne-mccarthy I just came across this movie, it sounded interesting so i gave it a go, and i was pleasantly surprised. but then i am a big Christopher Lambert, and of course Brian Blessed, but the plot is clever the acting is great and its got lots of medieval action. The story rolled along slowish, well its only slowish after you compare it to the end of the film and as thats usually a good sign i have to say, go see this if you get the chance, i suspect even the ladies will find it enthralling, although women aren't portrayed quite as well as they would like this is the middle ages so its pretty accurate and quite frankly it rocked :)