StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Sammy-Jo Cervantes
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
a_chinn
Now don't get me wrong. I'm a huge fan of movies where little things terrorize big things. I love everything from "Attack of the Puppet People" to "Child's Play" to the massive catalogue of Charle Band Full Moon Features exploiting this horror sub genre (i.e. "Puppet Master," "Demonic Toys," "Dollman," "Gingerdead Man," etc.). What all these films have in common is that they embrace the absurdity of little things menacing big things, particularly how ridiculous it looks visually, and that is where this film fails. "Leprechaun: Origins" attempts to make a darker more serious version of the Leprechaun story and fails miserably. Trying to sell a serious and scary story about a 3-foot tall magical (and evil) creature who just wants their gold comes off as just dumb. It works when the filmmakers don't take themselves seriously or at lease include a wink at the audience here and there, but this film's attempt to be "The Hills Have Eyes" set in Ireland is just dumb. It's not to say that this horror sub-genre can't be scary. The original "Child's Play" film was incredibly suspenseful and at times scary, but the filmmakers in that case understood the inherit silliness of a possessed killer doll and made knowing winks to acknowledge that fact. I think the filmmakers on "Leprechaun: Origins" wanted to make something along the lines of "The Descent," changing the quaint folk creature of the prior series into more of a cave monster with night-vision. I will admit to chuckling when one of the heroins, right before shooting the leprechaun, says "F- you, Lucky Charms," although that's a line stolen right out of the original 1993 Jennifer Aniston "Leprechaun" film. But overall, there's really no reason for this film to exist unless you happen to believe that WWE professional wrestler Hornswoggle was deserving of a film career.
tauras-00699
Not even worth the time to watch. One of the worst movies I've seen and the makeup on the leprechaun is not even close. Just terrible.
ConsistentlyFalconer
Leprechaun: OriginsTwo young American couples played by Canadians are backpacking through the Irish countryside, stumble upon an American Werewolf in London rip-off, and are left at the mercy of some bad camera work and some sort of half-arsed rotoscoping.This is a bad film. I knew I was in for a stinker when the production company logo came on screen: WWE Studios. Yep. The "wrestling" people. So how bad is it? Well obviously you've bad acting, a cheesy script, very approximate Irish accents, two-dimensional characters, glaring factual errors, crap special effects, no sense of threat, over-use of jump scares and Lewton buses… but I think the best way of summing up how just how crap Leprechaun: Origins is, is the fact that people are on IMDb defending the honour of the original Leprechaun (1993) film!That's all you need to know, really. It's so poor, people are calling the original a "classic" by comparison.Avoid.yetanotherfilmreviewblog.tumblr.com
captainplank-80537
Stay away from this movie if you are a fan of the Leprechaun series. I give this movie just 2 stars and that's only because as a creature feature it's not bad. I would have rated it higher if they weren't ripping off the leprechaun series.For the past week I have been doing a marathon of the Leprechaun movies. When I saw on Netflix that there was a Leprechaun movie that had come out just last year I was excited. I thought it meant that after so many years we were going to have some new movies. Then I noticed it didn't have Warwick Davis. I admit I was a bit disappointed. I love his Leprechaun character. Not sure how anyone else can really fill those buckled shoes, but I was willing to give the movie a chance.----Spoilers ahead-----I gave the movie it's chance and it left me feeling disappointed, misled, and betrayed. This is a Leprechaun movie in name only. The leprechaun is really just a mutated monkey looking thing. Entirely feral and has no dialog other than growls. This movie has none of the charm of the originals. There is no clever rhyming leprechaun who takes joying in toying with his victims before killing them. Instead you have this seemingly mindless creature running around that has a thing for shiny gold and eating people. Oh and it has predator vision. Can't forget that. The vision would have made more sense if instead of highlighting on the people that it could more clearly see gold thus drawing the creature to you. Throughout the movie I kept expecting to run into the leprechaun we all know and love. That the creature in this movie was like his pet; guarding his gold and sent out to retrieve what had been stolen. But that does not happen. Or perhaps when all the Leprechaun's gold had been stolen by the villagers he lost his powers and turned into this feral creature. Then halfway through the movie he could have taken back enough gold to restore some of his powers and change back to the Leprechaun we know. That would have made this movie better. At the end the sole survivor of the group says the famous one liner from the first Leprechaun movie "Fuck you, lucky charms!". I know this was meant to be a nod to the original movies but I found it a bit insulting. There really shouldn't be any link between this sorry excuse for a Leprechaun movie and the originals.
