Good concept, poorly executed.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Great movie real great direction. Its really difficult to make a movie out of an anime and even more difficult to make a movie out of an anime game why the lore of-course. We all know movies like dragon ball evolution and Last Airbender. But this movie is superb its trimed neither to fast nor to slow. neither mushy or hard on eyes. It has emotion a bit of laughter and definitely no fan service unlike game.Every character is unique and you can watch it with your kid. You will love liya and lambart and their love story better than twilight. its not very famous because its an Asian movie not backed by any big media houses like pixar or Disney. but its on par even better than some .MUST WATCH!

The character animation in this movie is seriously unnatural. Sometimes you just cannot understand what the characters want to express with their clumsy gestures. But maybe the dubbing is no good either. They will have to do better than that to even come close to Pixar or Dreamworks. Also the rendering of shadows (parts where the light should not get to, like nostrils) is flawed. The picture feels flat. Technically this movie looks like something from around 2000. There are some nice backdrops and detail renderings but the characters seriously ruin it for me. The story line is somewhat too simple for my tastes. No big surprises in a simple plot. The good old battle between good and evil.

What I love about this movie is that it is not the story about a chosen one. Now a days, all movies, books and so on are about this one person who has the special power within him to change everything. However, this is not the kid. The main protagonist, Lambert, is just a simple teenager who happen to get into a quest. He does not hold special powers, he is not necessarily strong, he is just a normal kid with attitude. As the movie goes on he becomes stronger, but yet there is no mentioning of him being special, just a kid with a big heart. The animation in this movie was amazing. I was impressed from start to finish and the detailing of even the smallest aspect of the scene was well thought out. Also, so was the story line. The story line kept me guessing. It was not like most movies where you already know everything that is going to happen, it kept me guessing. When I started watching this movie my first thought were "Oh, he's the chosen one" or "Oh, this will totally happen next" But it didn't for most of the time. Which is pretty rare now a days if you ask me. All the characters are well thought out and original and have a personality which I would love to get to know a backstory to. The characters had however the natural traits of for example a mage, a warrior and so forth, however as I mentioned the personalities were really interesting. Furthermore, the fight scenes were amazing. The precision of every blow and every strike was fantastic and I am so glad that I chose to watch this movie tonight. I definitely will recommend all my friends who love this type of genre to see this movie. Why I gave it 10/10? Because it kept me guessing, it kept me wanting more, I was sitting on the end of my seat and when I saw it was only 10 minutes left I got so frustrated because I wanted to see more. Which I hopefully if they do a second one. Once again, a great movie.

Soundtrack is great but it is quite awkward seeing as the story has deviated from the Dragon Nest's storyline. There are many points in the story where you notice that is very different from the actual in-game lore. The build-up of the story is quite rushed. The 6 heroes were introduced in a way that it assumed the audience would already know who they exactly are. Those who have never played the game or followed the main quest,would not know who these people are apart from the main protagonist fawning over them. The animation is great but there are points that are quite a bit out of place. Argenta's face in the movie is completely different from the tsundere we all know. Barnac for one is a blond swordsman but for this they decided to make him into a old geezer with money issues. This is an okay movie given that it's target market is initially gamers.