Legend of the Red Reaper

I have to admit I've been following the making of this movie for some time and it looked really promising. Considering the huge difficulties the producer/director and star Tara Cardinal went through to bring this production to the screen, I really wanted to like it, but sadly it is quite abysmal. Tara has said in interviews that large amounts of footage were lost due to the ineptitude of the people employed, so to make it up to a feature length we see the same footage being used over and over again.

However, as she was the star, director and producer surely she should take responsibility for these mistakes rather than continually blaming others. In a movie of this kind, the weakness of the script, plot and acting could be offset by the action scenes, but the movie contains weak ponderous sword fighting and at times looks like a live action role play convention rather than a movie.

Much has been spoken about it being a feminist picture, but even this falls flat. Tara's character spends the whole movie pining over a man who is to marry another woman, gets ordered about by her father, is repeatedly bested in combat by her male trainer and the other women in the movie do virtually nothing. I'm even a little suspicious about the near absence of the scene where Cardinal fought Al Snow while naked. She claims the footage was lost, but I wonder if she deleted the scene because she felt it may have undermined the supposed feminism of the movie?

I also have to say something to reviewers here and on other sites who are claiming that this movie is good! - you are seriously not doing Tara Cardinal or yourselves any long term favours, pride of place going to one reviewer who compares Cardinal to Kubrick & Orwell!!! I was lucky I wasn't the one who paid good money to buy this movie on the strength of the glowing early reviews. It was a friend of mine and she's pretty annoyed at how these 'reviewers', who must be either friends or associates of the cast and crew have used IMDb to mislead us! - Legend of the Red Reaper is not 'an instant classic', it's terrible.

Reading about how hard Tara Cardinal worked to get this very poor movie onto DVD reminded me so much of an episode of 'Mad Men' where a dopey millionaire comes to the ad agency with piles of cash asking them to market a sport that everyone knows is going to flop. In a rare moment of honesty & compassion, Don Draper tells him something along the lines of 'it's good to have a dream, but not this one'. Somebody should have said the same to Tara Cardinal.

So it seems all previous reviews must have been posted by either questionable sources or associations, because this movie is rubbish.

Everything from the plot holes, the screen play, to the terrible acting culminate into a movie I would rather forget! I love medieval, action,horror and many more genres. Unfortunately this seems like it was filmed, acted, produced and directed by some weekend re-enactment lovers. Don't waste your time or intelligence on this. Please don't spend any money or time on this laughable production. You have been warned! I am finding it hard to write ten lines as per the guidelines and wonder why this rule is in place?

This was in the top 10 DVD charts in Asda, I liked the look of the box art so bought it... It is truly the absolutely worst film I have ever seen. To put this into context, I managed to enjoy Starship Troopers 2.

This has the most poorly constructed storyline, and script writing I have ever seen. The repeated use of of dramatic posing, replayed again and again the constant use of dream sequence segments used over and over. The audio which you can hear in a single dialogue being cut half way through, dubbed with a studio recording then back to the scene recording again.

I feel thoroughly ripped off. It belongs in the 99p store - on a 2 for the price of one offer. The phrase "Watching paint dry" should be replaced with "Watching Red Reaper" because watching paint dry would be less tedious.

Honestly, I think it was misleading for Asda to sell this in the "Entertainment" section, I might demand my money back.

This was one of the worst films I have seen incredibly bad movie the reviews that you see here is probably actors in this extremely bad movie it is a pity that there are rules that prevent it I do not know how to write 10 lines about this movie the film is probably made ​​of completely novice everything is wrong, lighting, dialogues, storyline it is so bad that it is not worth looking at, even if it was the last movie made Now I am approaching 10 lines which apparently is a rule in order to post here it's my first review and I felt I had to write about how bad it was I was expecting a fairly good movie but got my evening ruined so do not be fooled by the high rating, it is guaranteed that it is ppl who have been involved and made ​​the film that gave the high score

This is one of those movies where the reviews have all been written by cast and production crew. In actual fact the acting is sub standard and my Staffie could have acted better. The fight scenes were shocking, slow and very very unrealistic. The cast has not one decent acting bone between them.

I wish these amateurs would stop churning out rubbish z-movies and save their weekly pocket money up until they can afford to do something decent.

The lead actress herself is not talented enough to be a lead and not that pleasing to the eye either.

The days of a good sword and sorcery movie are over.

Please delete this obscenity from all databases. It is truly terrible.