Why so much hype?

Good start, but then it gets ruined

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Well, what to say about this movie.They had this hot Chinese warrior babe on the cover, so I thought she was going to be a major character, but she doesn't show up until about a third of the way through, there are stretches when they forget her character is in the story like they shoe-horned her in to make the Chinese investors happy or something, and apparently they dubbed her voice. Then she dies in a cheap CGI sequence.Saddest thing. Sarah Douglas as the Red Queen. I remember when Sarah used to be hot, like in Superman II. Now she looks old and horrid.So this village in the middle ages is attacked by witches and really bad quality CGI. And after mind numbingly pointless action scenes, we finally get to the supposed climax of the movie, if you still cared, and at that point, I kind of didn't.

Another turkey! Should be rated Fantasy/Humour/Sleeping Pill. With due respect to a previous reviewer I don't agree with the mantra that it's a TV movie therefore don't expect the standards to be high. Why not? There are MANY TV movies which are probably better than cinema release stock.The same old repeated clichés, jumps, twists turns, a storyline I've seen on numerous other occasions. Nothing that helps me to like OR dislike the characters.The best piece of acting came from the witch who was burned in the first quarter of the movie.Nuff Said

I shouldn't rate this yet, haven't finished watching it, however, the Kramer character IS cracking me up. Does anyone else think he speaks like an English accented Captain Kirk, William Shatner 60's style? The pacing and inflection is so funny. I wonder if he realized he was doing that?hahah"They............are...........among us.........even now. Pause "One meal..........for one man.............will not.........." and on and on. I am an avid Sci Fi movie fan...books too....I just wish they had some better writers for the movies ON the Syfy channel. Sheesh. Don't waste your actors.....Luke Goss, Ed Speleers, James Frain (another movie) and more. I'll watch anything with Luke Goss in it. He is just dang gorgeous. So far, about a four on the ratings.

SyFy movies are a dime a dozen on Saturday nights and this one has a decent and original story line. There are no big blockbuster effects and no deep philosophical plot twists or ideologies. It's simply a sword and sorcery fantasy movie with tidbits of action here and there. Taking it for what it is keeps it in perspective. Those individuals who will think its "apallingly bad" are individuals who can't look past the low budget presentation of the film, although this one isn't that low budget in presentation.The acting is decent for a SyFy movie, the effects are decent, fight scenes decent and setting decent. Again it's not your top of the line straight to the box office film....take it for what it is and stop trying to be the newest critic on the block. We have enough of those.This review is mostly written to counter one of the complaints given in another review. The following may contain spoilers: The story showed Jozefa's (MyAnna Buring) conflict with her mother, the Red Queen from the Red Queen's initial introduction. So the fact she found out the King is her brother along with the fact that she's taken a liking to the King's best friend is the catalyst for her betrayal. Not to mention the King's best friend talking her down.