Legend of the Red Reaper (2013)

I created this account for the sole purpose of making a comment to this piece of garbage. Whether you pay with money for this film is irrelevant, what it will cost you in disgust for this insult to cinema is not worth it.The movie gets 1 star for having an interesting idea for a story line. The story line is garbage, don't get me wrong, but it was an interesting premise that they messed up. I like fantasy films, I like sword and sandal films, and I like epics. This had all the exact categories of movie I like, and has lead me to believe I don't actually like those categories of film in themselves, I just like well made films.The fight scenes are pathetic. The music is the most horrible part about this thing, they repeat the same horrible effect again and again at random scenes, and then random ultra annoying music plays that has no bearing on the scene.The acting was loathsome. In every aspect, and everyone.Most of the movie is this: scenes of people running, scenes of people walking in chains, repeats of scenes that preceded the current one, again and again and again, and flashes of a guy with white hair, and him making evil faces.I tried skipping through the scenes like that to get to the story line, and it was completely not worth it, and the film gets cut to about 20 mins of garbage.There is almost no way a film can screw up like this film. Any sort of emotion in the film is so horribly forced, and the script so horribly cheesy and atrociously executed, that you have to cringe, which is difficult while you're double cringing from the acting and the music.My initial impression was that the main character put out to get the job, along with the script writer, but from the comments here, she is the one who directed and wrote it, so whoever gave her the money to make this was either insane or got what he paid for.I would go through the film and recall each detail of it to destroy it here, but I would rather never to watch a movie again then have to watch this. To critics that have to watch it again, be strong.I had to edit this after reading the obvious reviews from the cast here **Spoiler alert** from here on: "This "strength" is extended to many of the characters in REAPER, male and female alike. Female reapers are equal to their men, warriors all. Aella does not compromise who she is for Eris. She has body issues because of her demon blood, but as for her skills, her passion, and even her rage she gives no apologies to the man she loves. He loves her with all her fluidity, not despite it."That's right. It's not a movie, and they don't even bother to pretend now. It's just politics.

This is without a doubt the worst film I have ever seen. I purchased it purely based on the DVD case, which is I assume where the 3.8million budget went because it certainly didn't go on the film.The acting was diabolical from the start. I would compare it to the type of acting you might expect of university students, but then that would be doing an injustice to students.The amount of slow-motion used for no good reason is laughable. Where slow-motion wasn't used the same snippets of film were used again and again... If that wasn't bad enough the 'special effects' seemed to consist of making the scene purple, as if a child had just been introduced to Photoshop and was playing with the filters.It's just bad. Don't bother. Really.The review that compares it to an adult film, without the adult content is spot on.P.S. The imagery they have used on the DVD case isn't even in the film!

This movie is so bad you cannot even enjoy it for its badness. It is obviously a vanity project for the lead actor/director/writer Tara Cardinal. Unfortunately, Ms Cardinal is not very good at any of her jobs in this. Her acting, and the rest of the cast, was stiff and uninspired. The directing was amateurish. And the story was unoriginal.The only positive thing I can say is, I admire Ms Cardinal for having a dream and pursuing it. Unfortunately this was a dream not worth sharing.Mostly I found the movie distracting. I kept being distracted by the acting, which as I already stated was bad. Then there's the fight scenes, which looked like they were from a high school drama club production. The fights moved so slowly at points they looked like someone filmed the choreography rehearsal. And then there was the oddest distraction of all. The characters' names, Ganesh, Adonis, Freya? How did she think using names from a mishmash of mythologies would help the plot line?Ah, this movie is just a mess. I've actually been known to enjoy bad movies. Some of them can have a certain charm to them. But this movie has no redeemable qualities. As I watched Red Reaper I kept having one thought. How did Tara Cardinal ever get funding for this?

Ganesh: God of beginnings, remover of obstacles, patron of art and science. Adonis: Greek god of beauty and desire. What the heck? Isn't there a book that would warn you not to use certain names in a movie unless they actually relate to the movie? The plot is non-existent and jumps all over the place. The acting would have been better done by a class of pre-schoolers. The sound jumps from one badly applied effect to another. The music is laughable and obviously taken from other sources and also badly matched to the scenes and doesn't flow (martial music to a love scene???) I can never get the time I wasted on this rubbish back and that's really sad. You know when a movie is so bad that it becomes funny? That isn't one of those. This is just bad.I really wish I had one of those devices used by Men in Black to erase my memory, there's about 2 hours I could get rid of.One star rating is too many.