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looks like a pilot for a crappy show


Yep - there are 2 good seasoned actors who are there for a few scenes, and then there's 2 bad actors who you see 85% of the time.
Combine that with a poorly written dialogue, crappy directing, bad sfx and an an open ending - this has all the makings of a failed pilot for a TV show. Then again, some crap gets greenlit either way, so perhaps this horrible show is coming to TVs near you?

Anyways, ignore this at all costs. It's bad - and if they make a TV show out of this, it's will be even worse.

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It looked bad, so didn’t download it. You know something is a real stinker when you can’t even give it away lol.

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The only thing to add is that even the seasoned actors cannot manage to turn in good performances in this, which is perhaps due to the poor plot and lack of development for their characters. Is there anything in this story that hasn't been done 100 times, and better? It is also an odd mishmash of the story ideas it does poorly. And the Aurora reveal is so ridiculous!

Meanwhile, someone has to have been stuffing the virtual voting box at IMDb. Nearly half of all votes for this slop are a 9. In fact, the median of the votes is 9, but at least due to weighting the overall rating it 5.9. That is far kinder than this movie deserves.

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If you look at the trailer, it seems that all the somewhat passable CGI was made for the trailer, the effects in the rest of the movie looks unfinished and really awful. It's basically a movie about two people running around in a forest, doing nothing in particular. The guy just stand around with his mouth agape almost the entire friggin movie! The story is just laughable, especially the ending, it's a facepalm moment. It almost counts as a deus ex. On top of that, there's a constant annoying narration. I would imagine that this movie started off as an idea, rather than a solid script, and that the script was made as they went along or something like that. Really amateurish filmmaking.

In any case, it seems like two completely different movies - a special effects part with big explosions, which ranges from passable to horrible, and a long low budget looking middle part consisting mostly of two people running through the woods. I feel that if somehow they had cut back a bit on those effect shots it would've been better, even though it would still be bad. Filmmakers must also learn than constant overlong narration is NOT GOOD, it just ANNOYING.

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I was a bit baffled when they approached an obviously European castle ruin, it's just seemed out of place. I suppose it was filmed somewhere in Europe?

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Truly horrible but the one redeeming value is in the soundtrack.

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