Dragon Crusaders

I've always had a fondness for fantasy movies, and thus I opted to watch this 2011 movie titled "Dragon Crusaders", even without ever having heard about it. I had the opportunity to watch it here in 2025 and did so, though I didn't exactly harbor the biggest of expectations. The movie had one of those covers, you know, where the cover over-sells the movie by a landslide, and the movie itself turns out to be a low budget suckfest. But still, I opted to watch it, and give the movie the benefit of the doubt.

The movie's staggering 2.7 rating here on IMDb, wasn't exactly helping to manifest any hopes of this being a stellar movie.

And when The Asylum's name appeared on the screen, whatever expectations I had to the movie vanished entirely.

Writer Mark Atkins put together a fair enough script. It was a pretty straightforward storyline, though the movie never stood a snowball's chance in Hell against the abysmal effects.

Something that did speak in favor of the movie, was the fact that I was not familiar with a single actor or actress. The acting performances in the movie were fair, though you're not in for anything extraordinary.

The CGI in the movie was pretty abysmal to look at. And for a fantasy movie such as this, then having proper CGI and special effects is a make or break sort of thing. And for this movie from The Asylum, it was a sure break.

It was as I had expected, that the movie's cover oversold the movie a thousandfold, and the movie's cover was actually the best thing about the entire ordeal.

My rating of writer and director Mark Atkins's 2011 movie "Dragon Crusaders" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

Well I didn't expect much from this film - and I'll say it's a bit less than I did expect. I will call this a Z-film -- that means is a lot less than a B-film in quality.

Remind me not to get another film made by The Asylum!! Their films are not very good.

3/10.

Unbelievable, this is a real bad movie! Well, not all of it. The actors have enough talent for a soap, but not for a movie. But the girl with the swords is okay, but only compare to the others of the cast. In a better movie she would fade away in the shadow of more talented actors. But the director of this movie has really zero talent. It's like there was no director at all while they where shooting this picture. And the ones in the editing room did really a lazy job. Like they just put together some scenes without looking at them. The cameraman made some nice shots once in a while. That was the only reason I kept watching, but nevertheless I was shocked that movies like this make it to DVD. I guess the ones who made this movie where not interested in making something good, but just making something because they had to. That's not a good motivation. Please, don't make any movies. Do something that you like but don't make a movie anymore. Can somebody tell the people behind this crap to look for another profesion.

A bunch of Knights Templar on the run after breaking with their king come across a village being attacked by pirates. After some argument about whether or not they should intervene or be on their merry way before the kings men catch up to them they decide to help out. Later they learn that one of the villagers, a young woman, is being held captive aboard the pirate ship. They commandeer a boat and go out to get her not realizing she has cursed the ship with an amateurish attempt at magic. Anyone who has spilled blood and boards the ship is cursed to become a gargoyle. It never occurred to this not-too-astute novice witch that those who have spilled blood and board the ship might do so on her behalf. And so unwittingly she cursed her rescuers, the Knights Templar, who must now odyssey for a cure.

Well now, lets see.....what did I like about this movie? On the up side I thought the dragons looked okay. As well, there was a not-bad-looking agile swordswoman about 4 feet tall who likes to strike a pose after she kills. On the down side, the movie seems budget-challenged; one gets the impression that the dragons and effects siphoned off most of their funds leaving little left over for a better wardrobe for the Knights Templar (their Knight Templar outfits looked like something handed out by a homeless shelter) and a tighter script (especially better lines for the Knight Templar who liked to crack wise; he was so not funny).

Listen, these are working people on a budget who are making an effort to entertain and make a living. I appreciate that. But certainly a little better script and directing could have given their limited resources more mileage since we all know that tons of money cannot save a bad script, and that, conversely, limited funds can go a long way with a good one. Hmmm, so lets see: 1 star for effort + 1 star for the dragons + 1 star for the sword-wielding short chick + 1 star for the movie in general. That's my rational folks. 4 stars. Love, Boloxxxi.

Few movies could be considered worst than this one. Terrible acting, haircuts and costumes, martial art fighting (sic), non credible crusaders, poor scenery, elementary computer graphics, lousy plot and music and whatever you can expect by a boring movie. Plus, the warrior lady seems the result of mixing up Red Sonja, Xena and any other comic book female fighter, and i didn't know that women wore hot pants in the middle ages. The whole movie is a bad screen version of an annoying RPG. Also the weapons have not much credibility, while the people that fall struck often display no wounds. The movie lines could have been written by my nephew, and the evil wizard is a scandalous tribute to the "Wizard of Oz". I don't understand how someone spent money to produce something like this.