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Albion: The Enchanted Stallion (2016)
Nice concept, poor execution
I really wanted this to be a good movie. I really did. It's got a nice premise with an interesting world, but it just felt so... BLAND. I struggled to connect with the main character, Evie. All the characters felt so cookie cutter, so two-dimensional. There was very little emotion, at least that the audience could connect with. You could tell that the characters were having emotions, but unless they told you outright (which they frequently did) it was difficult to tell what they were feeling. And characters frequently changed emotions in rapid succession with no indication of how they got from one emotion to the next. When Evie meets the Queen, she goes from angry to suddenly hugging the Queen with no change in expression. And Eremon switches sides without any indication of an emotional or internal struggle, just an explanation. The characters all had to explain their motives to the audience! And even then it wasn't all that convincing. I was seriously disappointed in this, especially considering that it had so much potential.
Dawn of the Dragonslayer (2011)
An okay movie...if you squint.
I know it's possible to make a good movie with a low budget--take "American Graffiti" for instance...which is why this movie is so disappointing. Forget the really poor SFX (which are really distracting). Where this film failed was in story and character development. I had a very hard time connecting with the main character, despite his tragic back story. If this movie had spent as much screen time developing the characters as it did on traveling and landscape shots, it would have done a lot better. I can live with low budgets and poor SFX--what I can't live with is shoddily-developed characters and dry, predictable plots. This movie's only saving grace is that it didn't resort to deus ex machina and that the main character earned the climax. Otherwise it would have not even been worth 1/10 stars.