THE PLOT THUS FAR
A princess is on a quest to unite the five greatest warriors to save her kingdom from a demon sorceress.
WHAT WE THOUGHT
In a tale of tangled family ties, a brave princess must battle her half-vampire sister to save her mother from an evil sorceress. But she’s also on a quest to find the father she never knew. The cinematography is somewhat competent, except that the film is divided arbitrarily into tales with weird chapter titles that are cut into scenes abruptly which only serve to make the editing look unbelievably amateurish.
This travesty from Albert Pyun — the same director who gave us a less-than-super “Captain America” — is a sequence of medieval sets that have very little connecting them. Fortunately, we have several interruptions where a vampiress soliliquizes about what will happen between the scenes that we witness. And we have more scenes where Michael Pare discourses with two other mercenaries against a cloudy background to give even more backstory — which allows for the presumption that there’s a story at all.
The DVD comes with a making-of production featurette. The A/V Quality is pretty decent for a rather cheap indie flick. However, the dialogue levels drop up and down so evenly for a Dolby 5.1 track. Outside of that, it’s what you’d expect with a Pyun film. In the end, I’d recommend a rental.
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