A "Dungeon Siege Tale" with Jason Statham, a couple of other semi-famous actors and a good supporting cast. My son came in to watch during the climatic battle sequence and pronounced it a bad copy of the "Lord of the Rings", and to a certain extent he was right.
As I understand it, the story is based on a video game, which means the plot is fairly simplistic and there are a lot of fight sequences. Jason does a good job with the fight sequences.
The dialog was short and sweet. By keeping it short, they managed to avoid sounding stupid, which is something many low budget movies suffer from. This probably was not a real low budget movie, but it could have easily been ruined with additional foolish dialog.
I don't quite know what to make of Burt Reynolds (?!?!) death scene. On one hand he spares us the long drawn out melodramatic death scenes you see in so many movies. On the other hand we look at him once and he is saying something. We look away for a second, and when we look back he is dead.
Long drawn out death scenes are really annoying. You can go through a whole movie with people being slaughtered left, right and center, and none of them go through long agonizing death scenes. It is not until a main character dies that we get that, and they get drawn out and out and out until you begin to wonder if they are every going to die. Geez, man, go on and croak and get it over with, we have important plot details to tie up. We don't need you hogging all the screen time with these vital death bed remarks. Did not have that in this movie.
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