Rented the DVD and watched it last night. While this is hardly the worst movie I've ever seen (it was redeemed slightly by a few cool special effects sequences), it definitely ranks somewhere on my worst movies list... and I thrive on bad movies.
The story is virtually incoherent. It's like 75 minutes into the 92 minute film before anything starts to make sense (and at 41 minutes, my best friend and I agreed that it felt like it'd been on for three hours). They amassed practically every cliched one-liner known to man and stuck them in all in the script... whether it made sense in the scene or not. None of the characters were particularly likable or memorable and the acting was fairly atrocious across the board. There's random insert shots of models that are REALLY hokey which don't remotely match the locations. The battle sequences have too many characters, stretch on way too long and are so fast-cut that it's difficult to discern what the hell's going on (I swear the head queen vampire was killed like 7 times in the final battle). And adding insult to injury, as the film concluded, it was far too clear that it was a pilot for a TV show -- thank God that never happened!
So this was a sci-fi original, huh? I didn't think Sci Fi could possibly produce anything that would make their brief "Flash Gordon" revival look like award winning material by comparison, but they certainly succeeded with this turkey.
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