Sword of Vengeance

Name: Sword of Vengeance
Genre: Action
Released: March 20, 2015
Duration: 87 min

2015

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Well Go USA Entertainment | Release Date: March 20, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: A Norman prince (Stanley Weber), freed from slavery, seeks revenge on his father's murderer – his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant (Karel Roden). Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting them in his quest to satisfy his code of honor. Will the prince sacrifice everything and everyone toA Norman prince (Stanley Weber), freed from slavery, seeks revenge on his father's murderer – his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant (Karel Roden). Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting them in his quest to satisfy his code of honor. Will the prince sacrifice everything and everyone to quench his thirst for bloody retribution? [Well Go USA]… Expand

Director: Jim Weedon

Genre(s): Action

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Ernest Hardy

Mar 19, 2015

The film hits its mark of being a popcorn action flick just fine. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Mar 19, 2015

Featuring enough clanging sword fights, severed limbs, slit throats and bare-bones dialogue to satisfy genre fans while pretty much failing to provide something of interest to anyone else, Sword of Vengeance has the feel of an 11th century-set video game. Read full review

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quincytheodore

Mar 24, 2015

Venture to barren wasteland with excruciatingly slow pace. Sword of Vengeance is shot almost entirely in slow motion. Characters perceive time differently from us, as they feel the need to dramatically walk, talk and stare at each other while posing at the camera. Visual is all shades ofVenture to barren wasteland with excruciatingly slow pace. Sword of Vengeance is shot almost entirely in slow motion. Characters perceive time differently from us, as they feel the need to dramatically walk, talk and stare at each other while posing at the camera. Visual is all shades of gray, while this might be stylish at first, it overstays its welcome by the fifteen minutes mark, by then the main character probably have taken his fifth slow-mo steps. Story is thin at best, with average runtime and majority of it is painful slow-mo, the film barely has any substance to offer.

An outsider comes to a village, he beats up a few thugs, makes a speech and fights tyranny. This simple premise is flawed by the first couple of scenes. The outsider dispatches people easily at one point, only to be jumped by a random extra and got whooped in the next. Considering that everyone moves as though they are in fashion show, it's borderline comedy this near superhuman can be even wounded, his plot armor must have worn off.

Acting is equivalent of cardboard box, but at least one could draw smiley or sad faces at a box. To be fair, it's not the actors' fault, the script barely gives anyone personality aside from one-dimensional extra from Vikings or 300. Story is heavily predictable, and the title helps by giving it away. There could be some underlying message of vengeance here but it's buried by the piles of slow-mo spam.

The fight is mediocre, either it's slow or shaky cam. There's barely logic in this as well, people swing and charge recklessly. Soundtracks are mesh between electronic and techno. It's a strange style and could've worked better if the movie had ordinary pace. Cinematography is different shots of a forest. Some with all trees, a few buildings and its interior. The film tries too hard on creating cool shots, it is literally nothing but slow motion.

Watching Sword of Vengeance is more like looking at slideshow of concept art, which may be edgy in modesty, but not for entire movie. Alternatively, one could watch Robin Hood in half speed or compilation of fights from 300, any of those should prove more interesting.… Expand

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Alexlee

Apr 2, 2015

most of the story is on Slow motion. which is very annoying since it got tons of unnecessary slo-mo. the plot is quite mild, no such good climax, all seems flat. the background theme and SFX are mildly awkward,

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