And why is that filmed... You’re getting stronger...
- Much stronger, I am a healer.
- Healer? It could have killed someone.
- Yes, maybe you could.(c)
Not the worst movie in this category, because I expected the worst. But to be honest, you don’t respect yourself, it’s almost not worth it. Although out of respect for folk creativity, you can appreciate - after all, people tried, and with the help of improvised means created a similarity ... well, anyway! By the way, you will most likely have to watch in a single-voice (dead) translation, there is probably no other in Russia.
The plot boils down to a simple conclusion: a cool sorcerer is released, seeks and kills his own kind, meets the latter (a retired sorcerer), and here he grasps at the “lightning bolts”. These “fights” reminded me of Harry Potter, when he fought on sticks with someone who “cannot be called”, the same principle is used.
The special effects fit the film, they're simple, and there's quite a lot of them, and they're all 80s-style. For comparison, you can take the first Terminator, when at the beginning of the film shows its appearance (lightning pulsates), and when you show footage from the distant future (laser shooting, robot models). I can't believe this movie was made in 2008.
As a rule, these films are full of scenes of sex (or nudity), well, maybe not in all, but in a lot of what I have seen. In this film, there is only one such scene, and that is shot with taste. It was not explicit sex, it was just a naked woman who tried to seduce the master magician, but he refused, and with the help of magic (some lightning, flashes) pointing his hand at her, he brought her to orgasm.
Morality (or semantic load) I still discovered, it seems that the inner forces of a person will heal the ailment that has arisen, and the rest is at the discretion of the “knowing” viewer. The film also shows that there are good magicians, and that magic is inherited. And that evil will be subdued.
In general, not the worst of the worst, and not the worst of it, rather on the amateur. However, the acting is surprisingly sane, in other films of this category were quite bad. Combat techniques are decorated with sound accompaniment (achievement!) and not at all children’s, but if you compare, for example, with the “Fifth Element” of Luc Besson, then they will come down to three points out of ten. For the extraordinary bed scene and for the "read notations" on the theme of the eternal at the end of the film, I will throw another point.
3 out of 10