Sword of Vengeance (2015)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It feels a bit of a fish mash of a group of film fans that are trying to make a film together using ideas from films they like.The sound track sounds 1980s sc-fi which goes well with the fallout, Max max back grounds.It has a spaghetti western feel to it. At times the dialogue felt badly dubbed lines.Plenty of sword and fight action. Filming looks clumsy but i think they move it around so much to make it look more of an epic battle then it is.Again using the 300 or Sin City black and white with dashes of colour to make it look more stylish works at times but at times it looks far too post nuclear rather then England.The acting is OK no real character growth. Very much the mysterious loner much copied from Sergio Leonie films of the 60's.I nearly gave up on this because it felt dark and slow. I thought oh no its a sc-fi chanel cheap and nasty with digital special effects and poor acting type of film.What made me stick with it was the FALLOUT game look. The FALLOUT series is my favourite console game.They should have left history out of it and leave it to the audience to decide if it was the future or past or another world.Plus points it is quite cool if slow. At times looks very good.I can see why it splits peoples scores so much. It feels very much like a movie for film technical and style lovers rather then the block buster type. It would surprise me if it became a bit of an under ground cult film like Django the original.

It makes no sense to me that this movie has such a low average rating on IMDb. The cinematography is excellent, the direction is good and the acting is fine. There is never a dull moment from beginning to end. The fight choreography is very good, and the costumes are realistic and accurate for the time in history.The hero's love interest played by Annabelle Wallis is very beautiful and is the ideal person to play her character, and Stanley Weber was likewise perfect for his role as the Shadow Walker.I highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes historical action dramas. It's not overly long, and it's entertaining throughout.From http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/normans/invasion_threat_01.shtm l "To prevent future raids and crush internal resistance, William I adopted a 'scorched earth' policy known as the 'harrowing of the north', and castles appeared throughout England to garrison a resident military force."

I don't think I'll be giving away much of the movie but, just to be on the safe side - this review may contain >>SPOILERS<<. The whole movie has a Skyrim-like atmosphere which is why I stayed with it 'till the end. The greyish landscape, the structure of the settlement, weapons, armor - on spot. The plot could have been a bit deeper and I would cut out some of the flashback scenes. Other than that the writing regarding the plot is fine. The story, however, could have been a million times better. They could even take some risks and end up with a story that would remind the audience of some other existing movies.Some of the actors were just... plain... dreadful! Sorry guys, but Romain and Artus had the poorest lines and line interpretations. I couldn't make myself believe a thing they said. Horrible. The only thing worse than this was the music. Wrong on any level imaginable. Wrong timing, wrong genre, wrong volume... It made me mute the film more than once.I won't go into history and facts, it wasn't important to me as I watched the movie. It slightly reminded me of "Hammer of the Gods". Left me with the same feeling of unfinished story. I will not watch it again, once was enough but if you're looking for some light movie night, some sword fight - your choice could be right.

It starts off slow and moves on at the same pace throughout. After 10 minutes, I realized that it wasn't going to speed up.But that's OK, because this movie is about the hero. He is, quite literally, all that matters. The hero is right out of feudal Japan, with his honor-bound "only vengeance matters" ethics, and his short clipped way of speaking with an accent that doesn't belong in Scotland. His fighting style is completely out of place and would be laughably ineffective in real life. Good thing he learned to hold his sword backwards, otherwise he'd have killed all the baddies twice as fast and the movie might have been tempted to run at a normal pace..No other characters matter. There is a "love interest" that doesn't really make any deep connection and only exists to give the hero exactly ONE dynamic character lesson, a trio of bad guys that have exactly ONE motive each, and a plethora of other characters that might as well be nameless as they don't do much else except perform all the basic necessary menial tasks involved in making a hero look heroic without trying too hard.There is no accuracy in terms of dress, speech, military action, governmental oversight, etc. These things don't matter, only the hero matters. He looks cool and is a total awesome dude. The movie has to rock because the hero does. Right? In addition, it was filmed in the "bleak style" that is so prevalent among stylized films. This means they removed most of the color. I have never understood this particular method of filming. Can the world not be bleak in its own right? And lastly, the soundtrack spends most of its time being out of place. Sometimes it sounds like something out of a sci-fi film (mostly when the hero is spinning his sword around, complete with whirly sound effects), sometimes it sounds like moody atmospheric mush (mostly when the hero is looking stoic and heroic), and usually moves itself into the typical drum-heavy orchestral epic sounding stuff (mostly when the hero is killing lots of people while holding his sword backwards). There is no reference, or even an implied reference, to any sort of traditional gaelic or celtic musical form, melody or instrument.This is getting long, so I'll cut it off here with a final comment:This movie is so empty of substance that it's like a skeleton of ideas that are designed to be easily fit into any genre. Take this hero and stick him into a sci-fi feature battling the evil space barons that killed his family. You don't even have to change the soundtrack. Next throw it all into a pirate feature. It will work just fine, just need to tweak the costumes a little bit.This movie is bland and devoid of any real character. Very forgettable.