GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

ComedyFan2010 I gave this movie a bit more points than I was planning to because it was a low budget indie production. And I wouldn't have noticed it. So my respect for filming it to look like a normal Hollywood expensive movie. But I took points off for things that don't matter if it is a low or high budget movie. It was just so boring. Out of fight scenes I liked only one, the one where he tries to save his wife in a battle against other captured. That was the only one where it was exciting. The rest was boring.Wes Bentley is really good in the character. But there isn't much going on with the plot to keep ht viewer captured.

Kirpianuscus at the first sigh, it is awful. for the crap story, for the unrealistic fight scenes, for the exile of Wes Bentley in a role so far by him. at the second sigh , a compensation is discovered . Hirokin in reasonable support for remind scenes and characters from many Sci Fi / fantastic movies. John Carter or Dune, off course, but not only. the stories about heroes from the childhood, the brave young men against evil leaders, the fantasy from the decades "50 - "70 are a kind of aura of this modest film about nothing. because all is well known and the only purpose of director to have another title in his filmography. the only real sin - the reference to Japan. Hirokin could have many identities. but he has the bad luck to not be a samurai.

lemon_magic Sometimes it's harder to watch a movie that's almost good than it is to watch a stinker or a lemon or a cheesy giggle-fest. This is one of those. I don't want to be too negative about this, so I'll start with the good stuff: Wes Bentley is always a strong, interesting presence in a movie, and he's as good in this as the screenplay lets him be. He's obviously just an actor being coached in stage/film combat, but he's reasonably credible in the role, and I'm always glad to see him getting work.The outdoor photography and scenery are vivid and pleasing to the eye, although the time-lapse photography thing with the rolling clouds is a bit overused. The soundtrack is suitably grand and sweeping, if a little clichéd; it adds to the experience which is all one can ask, right? Some of the supporting actors are decent (Julian Sand is his usual elegantly repellent self), some seem unfocused and/or under- rehearsed,and a couple seem to be out of their element entirely. Mostly the screenplay seems half-baked and underdone. There are holes in the plot and the scale of the events depicted is off. It seems unlikely that one stronghold and a couple dozen guys with swords and sticks could keep an entire planet in thrall, and this undercuts the immersion factor. And seriously, this is supposed to be an alien planet in the far future, but no one has a gun? Really?Coupled this with all the hand-waving about the "wei" (and a completely unconvincing training montage), the complete lack of actual "samurai", and the derivative nature of the story - bits of "Dune", bits of "Priest", "Star Wars", "Gladiator" and pieces of half a dozen other, lesser works of SF...it adds up to something a lot less than I had hoped. I watched this for free on a streaming Roku channel, and thought it was an OK time waster. If I'd paid money to see it, I might have been unhappy.

zorrek Badly directed with even worse editing this story had a lot of potential. Fails miserably as entertainment, screen play and dialogue are even worse than the directing and editing. Production quality is almost there and the acting looks like it was all first takes with little rehearsal. I also saw bits from other movies, Gladiator, Star Wars a little of Dune. Plenty of good looking sorts in it, but even they can't save this festering mess. It would not have taken too much to have turned this into blockbuster, get Joss Weadon in to rewrite the screenplay and direct. Pay the actors a little more and give them some time to rehears.