SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

MonsterPerfect Good idea lost in the noise

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

adonis98-743-186503 Inspired by an ancient myth, Darklight stars Shiri Appleby as the immortal Lilith, long hunted by a secret society known as the Faith. Her true nature concealed by a powerful spell, Lilith lives as a 24- year-old woman with no memory of her ageless past. Now, the Faith's chief agent, William Shaw, must recruit Lilith and train her to use her mystical power, known as Darklight, for the good of humanity. So begins Lilith's heroic journey; to slay a deadly demon and come to terms with her own dark past. What i hated the most about this film except the fact that it was boring was the fact that you couldn't see anything at all and it reminded me a lot of AVP: Requeim but then again it's not like anything could save this abomination.

GL84 Following the release of a demonic creature, a guardian of a secret society recruits a young woman born as a special breed of unholy being to right her past wrongs and stop the creatures' rampage.This turned out to be quite a decent effort overall. One of the better elements to this one is the inclusion of some rather fun action sense that makes this a lot more fun than it needs to be. There's a lot of rather enjoyable action scene from the training montage that fully explains her powers as well as the ensuing battle at the forum which is only their first encounter but sets the stage for later ones quite well. Even brawls inside the facility and a chase through the woods come off as rather enjoyable, though the final battle here gets the goods as being the most entertaining by being the typically drag-out brawl that's to be expected from such a final conflict. The numerous encounters here lead to some pretty decent blood and gore through the scratches, wounds and deformed bodies that are displayed along the way which are quite exciting. While being a little simplistic, there's some fun to be had here from the intriguing storyline connecting the demonic creature to her biblical past as well as the main storyline about the plague spreading throughout the rest of the world at the time. Otherwise, there's not much else to like here as the majority of the time is spent trying to get her to come to terms with her past. Not a whole lot really happens during these scenes as it just amounts to hearsay anyway but keeps going through several tries at getting the truth hammered home that it tends to conflict with the story, dragging this out so it seems to be quite slow and sluggish in terms of pace. That also tends to affect the pace as this one just doesn't have anything really interesting when not focused directly on the creature running loose and really tends to get a little sluggish at times. The CGI is simply way to fake to even be considered to make the final demon look anywhere near threatening. A suit would've looked far more threatening and imposing. The design looks cool, but the execution is way off. Beyond these, there's not a whole lot really wrong with this one.Rated R: Violence and children-in-jeopardy.

bajan13k The story behind this movie is very interesting, and in general the plot is not so bad... but the details: writing, directing, continuity, pacing, action sequences, stunts, and use of CG all cheapen and spoil the film.First off, action sequences. They are all quite unexciting. Most consist of someone standing up and getting shot, making no attempt to run, fight, dodge, or whatever, even though they have all the time in the world. The sequences just seem bland for something made in 2004.The CG features very nicely rendered and animated effects, but they come off looking cheap because of how they are used.Pacing: everything happens too quickly. For example, "Elle" is trained to fight in a couple of hours, and from the start can do back-flips, etc. Why is she so acrobatic? None of this is explained in the movie. As Lilith, she wouldn't have needed to be able to do back flips - maybe she couldn't, since she had wings.Also, we have sequences like a woman getting run over by a car, and getting up and just wandering off into a deserted room with a sink and mirror, and then stabbing herself in the throat, all for no apparent reason, and without any of the spectators really caring that she just got hit by a car (and then felt the secondary effects of another, exploding car)... "Are you okay?" asks the driver "yes, I'm fine" she says, bloodied and disheveled.I watched it all, though, because the introduction promised me that it would be interesting... but in the end, the poor execution made me wish for anything else: Blade, Vampire Hunter D, even that movie with vampires where Jackie Chan was comic relief, because they managed to suspend my disbelief, but this just made me want to shake the director awake, and give the writer a good talking to.

boytroy67 Although I agree with the earlier posting about Darklight not having much direction, I think it was initially a pilot for a series that never got greenlighted. It was like the producers had several episodes that they had to piece together to salvage what was funded in startup. The effects were good for TV -- we can't expect CGI in everything. I thought the initial storyline of Adam's first wife, Lilith, seeking to be absolved from her initial sins was a good premise. I would like to see the movie developed into a mini-series, if not a series. It could be something like 'Angel' with a flawed key figure trying to pay for the sins of the past.