Alicia I love this movie so much

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

kevin-w-clark-484-207691 The story has great potential deriving story aspects from certain different genres including ancient history of both japan and Babylonian sources, mixed with Gothic themes. However the background is the only thing note worthy about this movie. Within the first scene it is obvious that at least a large part of the crew are amateurs. From sound to acting to lighting. The opening sequence is clearly done on a sound stage that sounds like a sound stage along with no lighting effects that give no effect on the actors emotions or environment. Most of the acting in those scenes are also difficult to watch. There are some camera effects that also are beyond cheesy. It is better to watch this movie not expecting a Hollywood production. The character Oda probably would be far more appropriate if the actor was Asian. Maybe Im wrong about this but he seems to take the image of a samurai but is given a common sword instead.

dragonscientist I have never seen anything that was more poorly made. I am trying to watch all vampire movies that I can find. That is the only reason that this joke of a movie played to completion in front of me. Much of the movie jumps to a poorly produced cartoon-mode. Whenever the movie would have required any real creativity, they put in a cartoon instead. It really looked like they couldn't figure out how to do real CGI, and they couldn't afford a decent cartoonist, so they just put in some crappy drawings and called it good. I've seen, and even appreciated movies, that go between live film and anime style battles, but stylistic choice is not an excuse that this lousy movie can claim. If this was a stylistic choice, then all of the fighting should have followed the same style. That was not the case with this charade. What determined whether the fight scene appeared live vs. cartoon was how difficult it would have been to film it. If a fight scene was anything more than a awkward swing of a sword by an incompetent actor, then it was turned into a low quality cartoon.It also looked like most of the actors would have been rejected in auditions for an elementary school play. Some of the other reviews that compare the acting to that of porn are way too generous.

Rob_Taylor This is a hard film to rate. I can see what they were trying to do, but the money just wasn't there to transform this into an actual, watchable movie. I wanted to like it. I really did. The Sword and the Sorceror remains one of my favourite old B-movie fantasy films of the eighties. I wanted this sequel to live up to that. But....There are some really awful effects that just look terrible. So terrible that I think that is what they deliberately went for in the end. They had no money for real CGI or anything like it, so they hashed something together on someone's PC.It all plays like a quickly mocked up 'interest' piece. As if someone put this together as a teaser for studio execs to watch as part of a pitch for a movie.If they had had more money, then I could see this maybe being an okay film. IF. But they didn't and what we are left with is a poorly lit, poorly dressed and sometimes horribly acted movie that invites ridicule. It looks like a bad TV show. Really bad.This is a shame, as I say, because there is potential here, with the right backing.Oh, and they need to lose the music score they went with, too. It's just badly put together and totally out of character for the genre. And whilst I'm dispensing advice...lose the over-sized vampire teeth. Between the brash, over-loud music and the lisping attempts of the actress to talk around her teeth, I could hardly understand a word the vampire queen said.Quite how they cajoled Kevin Sorbo into this I'll never know. I expect he owed someone a favour.Oh, and when the title says "Tales" I was expecting several different, but connected stories. What you get aren't "Tales". They are simply chapters of the same tale. But I guess "Chapters of an Ancient Empire" doesn't sound so good, eh? All in all not really worth your time and effort. They hint at a follow-on at the end, God help us! I just hope they throw a bit more money at it next time around.Best avoided if you have fond memories of the original.

urmonk30 This is the first movie I have reviewed here, and I do so as a response to those who are praising this movie.I don't know how anyone can honestly praise this movie, it is a shear mess. Editing and pacing were terrible, production quality below most TV episodes. I'm sure the actors did the best they could with what they had but what they had wasn't much. This movie is in no way near as enjoyable as "The Sword and the Sorcerer", it is in no way nearly as coherent. This movie made little sense, even with the ham-fisted exposition. The trailer for this movie was better than the movie!Maybe this mess could be salvaged by throwing it into the category of "so bad it's good", and that's a big maybe.There are only two suggestions I have for watching this movie: either watch it inebriated or, simplest of all, not at all.