Mythica: The Darkspore (2015)

Such a frustrating disappointment

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Keep the costume designer and the photographer, fire all others, including the director.Poor - no, I take it back - awful script and dialogues and terrible, terrible directing. There is no real coherence from one scene to the next, no one takes advantage of the actors' strong points, long scenes to fill the time in order to give an excuse for a movie.This could have been so much more.CG were not needed really; we could have used our imagination, with a bit of air acting, and use the money to hire a better director.And the story - oh, the story - what a mess... It really peaks in the end where, disposing of the whole of the point, the heroes mess up their mission, utterly fail, leaving the world to its doom and walk away all smiles in search for another adventure and... warmer climates.Really, now, whoever gave high marks to this film must either be a close friend of someone in the cast or crew or an utter nutter about anything sword-yielding, magic-casting or horse-riding.And... "Hercules" must have been stoned up to his eyeballs.

REALLY? Really Anne Black? This is like watching a Chinese action movie where everyone stands around doing nothing until hero tries to kick them, then they fall in the most dramatic fashion possible.Action, is just terrible in this movie. John Wick is a movie with low budget and that has some of the best action scenes ever done. Then again, John Wick didn't spend most of its budget doing laughably bad rendition of Hobbit, unlike Mythica.Action is so bad that Mythica makes you doubt whether the guy wielding a huge sword can actually use it or not. In MOST shots featuring enemy Orks, you will actually see them standing around doing nothing. Really, they aren't even pretending to be in a fight. They are just standing watching the "fight".Then there is the terrible CGI. Which is back and unlike the first movie, doesn't have a single convincing shot present. Why? WHY waste money on CGI that looks like it's from a console game from 90s? Spend that money hiring people who can teach your actors to fight and find someone to shoot action scenes like they should be shot (that is, don't show guys standing around idly thinking about meaning of life, in the background).Everything else? Well I don't know. This movie somehow manages to make the heroes look even dumber, especially the thief who at the end doesn't seem to be bothered by the heroine stealing his life to use her necro powers to the point that he can't feel his fingers. I'd be pretty angry, honestly.Now going to go watch the third movie, hoping they improved it. I wanted better than the first one, Anne made it worse with second. I am hoping third is going to be an improvement after all the feedback she got.. hoping.

Marek and her company must go on a journey and prevent Szorlok from obtaining all the shards of the Darkspore, or all will be lost. Really??? They already lost the stone!!There's a lot of flaws here. Very poor visual effects, poor scenario and poor acting.Marek got strong powers but she still a slave tho, and needs help to be freed!!! The timeline is so slow.Marek and here friends had the portal opened but they didn't go into it until the evil wizard arrived to fight them.They saw his army and they got enough time to escape through the portal, but the stood still like idiots and got caught!!! I'm sure that the high ratings are very fake. I rated 1 for this movie because there's no less than 1 to give.

This is wholly a spoiler, because as far as this kind of movie goes, the acting and dialogue was fine. I give the 2 stars for that. And what has been said about the sets, effects and fights has already been said. So here is my gripe, and the spoiler:The tag line is: "Marek and her company must go on a journey and prevent Szorlok from obtaining all the shards of the Darkspore, or all will be lost."So what happened? The 'heroes' give the Darkspore to Szorlock, and therefore, surely, all is lost?But no - they head off on another adventure.Wait - you haven't finished this one yet! Come back! The evil wizard has the most powerful artefact in the world and doom will befall all, and you've already forgotten what an utter balls-up you've made of everything...Actually, on second thoughts - don't come back.