Cubussoli
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
SoftInloveRox
Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Beulah Bram
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
joele-22263
One of the biggest piles of garbage I have ever seen! I'm a fan of both fantasy and animated movies but this.... I don't even know where to begin! The voice acting is horrible, sounds like it's taken straight from an "adult movie". It seems like the plot is ripped from *insert generic heroic video game theme here*. Im usually pretty forgiving since I am fan of the genre but this was almost painful to watch!Such a weak story and even more predictable then any Disney movie. What was surprising was how good the animation was. Guess they needed a fancy package to deliver this polished.... well you know... So in the end, if it is needed to be spelled out, horrible movie and actually one of the few movies I would say is a waste of time watching!
Cmyck
The character animation in this movie is seriously unnatural. Sometimes you just cannot understand what the characters want to express with their clumsy gestures. But maybe the dubbing is no good either. They will have to do better than that to even come close to Pixar or Dreamworks. Also the rendering of shadows (parts where the light should not get to, like nostrils) is flawed. The picture feels flat. Technically this movie looks like something from around 2000. There are some nice backdrops and detail renderings but the characters seriously ruin it for me. The story line is somewhat too simple for my tastes. No big surprises in a simple plot. The good old battle between good and evil.
Jolu Amistad Dionson
Soundtrack is great but it is quite awkward seeing as the story has deviated from the Dragon Nest's storyline. There are many points in the story where you notice that is very different from the actual in-game lore. The build-up of the story is quite rushed. The 6 heroes were introduced in a way that it assumed the audience would already know who they exactly are. Those who have never played the game or followed the main quest,would not know who these people are apart from the main protagonist fawning over them. The animation is great but there are points that are quite a bit out of place. Argenta's face in the movie is completely different from the tsundere we all know. Barnac for one is a blond swordsman but for this they decided to make him into a old geezer with money issues. This is an okay movie given that it's target market is initially gamers.
barry-930-633294
This is the best Chinese animation movie I've seen. I watch what is coming out of the mainland and in animation it has been bad. Same with live action, but sometimes we get movies like Kung Fu Hustle which was amazing. Where are all the great HK movies? Why don't the mainland movie makers watch more international films and understand that good plot is essential to a good movie. But Dragon Nest might be the movie that proves the mainland can make movies now. This movie feels like it came from a game, but Song Yuefeng, the director, took his skills to add feelings and fun to the action. This is a director to watch out of China. I now want to see the sequel.
