When watching the film, there is a sincere surprise that the studio “The Asylum”, which we all so ardently “love”, did not have a hand in its creation. However, the essence of the production does not change, reducing to a primitive action story shot for pennies, when the script loses all connection with logic, and the visual side alternately causes laughter and tears from the wholesale cheapness. But should we expect something clear from a picture with such a telling title? Here it is worth anticipating in advance a simple movie thrash, deliberately mocking common sense. Before us is a typical budget horror movie for television, whose core consists of a fight between two monsters. A little distinguishes it from the rest of the entourage of Ancient Greece, which, of course, mired in a kind of weighty “cranberry”, grown on myths, the books with which the authors clearly did not read, and so – viewed the illustrations and began to sculpt the script.
The plot is not burdened with excessive effort. He takes a bunch of clichés and gives out a certain “bad” tyrant who conquers the kingdom of the “good”, and to completely destroy the “good” survivors with the help of his “evil” general – along the way, an acting warlock at part-time – calls the monster Chimera. Overthrown super-trained and super-brave princess in always impeccably perfect white dress meets the heroic blacksmith, with whom the pair will fight on the magical Pegasus that sent the "good" witch. The scene is placed in the woods and that is all. The rest is left behind the scenes for lack of funds: the battles of two troops and the fallen cities will be reduced to a cursory mention in words, the luxurious palaces of the rulers are represented by one single room and faded tents, the king rides in a sheet-coat on a horse without a retinue, the ancient armies depict five people in rag togas with plastic swords ...
Badly painted on the computer monster periodically attacks people, and the torn mannequins with ketchup are in the business, which, it should be noted, completely undermines the harmony between the most primitive script of motivations with the illogical course of affairs of the level of a five-year-old boy, the only one able to accept the childishness reigning in the frame, and the visual presentation of material. That is, on two fronts, the author gives a blow, when preschoolers who do not pay attention to script stupidity will be surprised by a cruel far from fairy-tale “picture” with torn bodies, and adults who love splatter horrors will shrug their shoulders from the total absurdity of “cardboard” heroes. And, frankly, the magic here does not smell at all, if the entourage of the film resembles an endless running through a gloomy forest, where inept waving swords with dull stereotyped dialogues somehow dilutes the voracious monster. What? Pegasus? What about the enemy of the Chimera and their promised battle? The second creation clearly did not have enough funds, so it is represented by an ordinary (!) horse, which will demonstrate its wings a couple of times and poke its hoof on the ground, imitating the long-awaited fight.
Actually, for a clear horror, the production is not interesting and stupid, in the slice of the “monstrous” confrontation of a pair of monsters does not reach in visual terms, and for a bright children’s fairy tale it is too gray and bloody. Such a combination can cause a desire to interrupt the viewing, and other viewers have a small share of laughter from the saving law of rabid thrash, when everything is so incredibly bad that even somewhere good, because if on the screen a handful of adults in a rag depicts kings and warriors, diligently conducting pathetic dialogues about the salvation of ancient countries against the background of bare forests and empty fields, then you can laugh from all the absurdity of the situation, imagining an arthouse about the everyday life of mentally insane people. Well, or regret that, for example, a good actress Ray Dong Chong has recently been forced to play in frankly poor projects, where even curves do not save the overall result.
2 out of 10