I’m not sure why I waited years for a D&D movie to hit the big screen, then be disappointed and have to wait more years, when a perfectly great D&D movie was released the year before I was born!
Hawk (John Terry) is a noble hero and wielder of a bad ass hand-hilted elven mind stone powered sword. His big brother Voltan (Jack Palance) who looks about 70 years older, is beefing with his sibling, and kidnaps Victor Meldrew’s Nun wifey (Annette Crosby) to ransom off in exchange for a whack of gold and a chance to whack the Hawkster. Like any good sword and sorcery epic, a party bands together to save the day consisting of Carry On Giant Gort (Bernard Bresslaw), badass Elven toxophilite Crow (Ray Charleson), smart ass Dwarf Baldin (Peter O’Farrell) and Ranulf (W. Morgan Sheppard), who needs just the one hand for his quick fire crossbow.
This was a lot of fun, with effects that hover well below Star Wars yet significantly above an episode of Doctor Who, but it doesn’t matter so much as Director Terry Marcel has ballsy confidence in his subject matter and presentation that it’s just so easy to feel yourself riding the wave. Or in this case riding a horse to slay your helmet headed, two faced geriatric brother.
I swear if you strain your ears and listen super close, you can hear dice rolls underneath every attack motion.
I’m not sure why I waited years for a D&D movie to hit the big screen, then be disappointed and have to wait more years, when a perfectly great D&D movie was released the year before I was born!
Hawk (John Terry) is a noble hero and wielder of a bad ass hand-hilted elven mind stone powered sword. His big brother Voltan (Jack Palance) who looks about 70 years older, is beefing with his sibling, and kidnaps Victor Meldrew’s Nun wifey (Annette Crosby) to ransom off in exchange for a whack of gold and a chance to whack the Hawkster. Like any good sword and sorcery epic, a party bands together to save the day consisting of Carry On Giant Gort (Bernard Bresslaw), badass Elven toxophilite Crow (Ray Charleson), smart ass Dwarf Baldin (Peter O’Farrell) and Ranulf (W. Morgan Sheppard), who needs just the one hand for his quick fire crossbow.
This was a lot of fun, with effects that hover well below Star Wars yet significantly above an episode of Doctor Who, but it doesn’t matter so much as Director Terry Marcel has ballsy confidence in his subject matter and presentation that it’s just so easy to feel yourself riding the wave. Or in this case riding a horse to slay your helmet headed, two faced geriatric brother.
I swear if you strain your ears and listen super close, you can hear dice rolls underneath every attack motion.
