Mythica: A Quest for Heroes

I watched the first one (The Quest for Heroes) because it was on Amazon Prime and looked interesting. It was okay. I went a few weeks and then decided to watch the next movie, then the next day I watched the 3rd. By this time I'm used to the characters and want to find out what happened next. I watched number 4 and 5 the following day. Each one seemed to get better. Understand this, these movies are not incredibly well made. It looks like it was made for TV and not theater quality, which didn't bother me. Acting was good, filming locations where beautiful but the CGI was low budget. It really seemed like I was watching a TV series with really long episodes. Especially since this is one story broken up into 5 movies. I liked it and really wanted to watch it to the end. If you like the medieval, wizardry, love story, underdog type story...this is for you.

What this movie lacks in the opening scene, it more than makes up for during the rest of the movie. This is not a movie for the run of the mill movie watcher. Do not watch this movie expecting another Lord of the Rings movie, or something Game of Thrones-esque. This movie isn't going for giving you another blue-filter dark tale of moody characters in a moody world. Nor is it for the special effects geek or the over-analyzing movie critic who tries to apply the same rules of critique to a Wes Anderson movie and a high-fantasy movie. This movie is for the lovers of fantasy role-playing games, and the fan of the cheerful fantasy movies. This is for you who liked Willow, this is for you who liked the Legends movie. This is about the love of adventure and the chemistry between characters. It is about the love of mystery, deities and magic. The effects are more than good enough to tell the tale, and most of the acting is perfect for the roles they are portraying. There are movies that are made with skill, and there are movies that are made with love. The love permeates the making of this movie, and the skill is there as well. You can tell that this isn't made in the Hollywood movie factory where an IP is bought and milked for money by generic directors and generic actors. This isn't Samuel Jackson looking lost trying to be a Jedi. This is made by people who understands and loves the genre. If you love and understand the high-fantasy movie genre, do not miss this movie. It is a gem you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

OK, so our main character is the definition of Mary Sue knowing a lot of complex things she could not have learned as a slave. You may think "Hercules" taught her but it seems he only taught her some basic magic. Another interesting part are the mythical creatures or rather lack of. The CGI is extremely poorly made , so bad that I know movies from the 70-80's that have more realistic monsters than this one (Sinbad's journeys for instance). The only thing that was interesting was the redhead who was hot as fire and the only character that was not paper thin was the half elf. Most of the dialogue sounds like written by a kindergartner and he story is pretty much non-existent. Also what happened to all that trapped people? weren't they supposed to save them? That being said I cannot say I did not enjoy the movie as the redhead is hot.

I agree that the movie was better than expected. It is patient where it needs to establish mood, the characters are well established and the world feels like an actual world. There are a few scenes that stick out because of their poor quality. For me those exceptional moments only show that the movie is on a pretty okay level, otherwise ... as long as you do not compare it to big budget Hollywood movies, that is. The stakes are fine for a first movie of a series, but the storytelling does suffer a little because the focus is mostly on the character interactions. I have hopes for part two and will be one of the people who pledge in the upcoming campaign on Kickstarter for Mythica 2: The Darkspore.

This is a really good B movie the characters are lovable the Magician Marek and Priestess Teela are both beautiful. I very much enjoyed this movie. I'm giving it 8 stars because of the cast, story, costumes etc. I'd say some of the effects in here were pretty good like all necromancy parts. But horrible for the spiders for instance, the Ogre, looked pretty good in some shots, but the movements were well, eh. The cave, mountains, and snowy landscape, give it a nice touch. You do feel for the pretty Marek who has a disability on her left leg which makes her limp but don't let that fool you it doesn't make her weak in the slightest bit. She will go to dangerous lengths to save her friends even if it means losing her own life.

This is one of the better D&D style movies i've watched, and I watch them all. The special effect are sub par, so a lot of youngish viewers are going to crucify this gem. Acting B, costume B+, Plot B, Storyline B+, special effects C (good stuff on the mage/witch though), dialogue C +, direction A-, music B+, sword fight scenes D, homegrown magic scenes B+. After watching this I had my wife watch it, and she liked it quite a bit, and thats no mean feat for a fantasy. I was particularly impressed with how the character development was done with out viewer knowledge. Since I am now middle age, I've had a bellyful of special effects and movie glitter, I look for overall quality, I don't need state of the art effects if the rest is good, i actually kind of enjoy it. Since I am familiar with the whole D&D thing, although I don't role play anymore since a stint in high school, I was impressed on how the movie adhered to that universe, pretty impressive feat overall. I suppose the fight scenes could use more realistic choreograph in terms of sword stuff, but the gritty down to earth magic stuff compensated for it The costumes and magic are more real then I am used to seeing in these style movies. Clothing was kind of disheveled and soily, magic was earthy, desperate and hurried-- overall this movie was a real treat

Was expecting more from this movie, as it did look interesting and with the right execution it could have been a fun film. In the end it wasn't bad but also not good, rather a mediocre movie with some things to make it watchable. Melanie Stone does give a great performance as the most interesting and well-rounded character of the movie., though most of the characters while stereotypical were likable and engaging. The special effects are above average, looking rightly proportioned , don't look too cartoony and actually looking complete, the ogre is pretty intimidating. The music score is very grand and rousingly and nicely orchestrated, fitting nicely within the movie, the theme song is pretty catchy. The costumes are very nicely done and give a real sense of fantasy adventure. For all those good things though, there were a lot of ways in which Mythica: A Quest for Heroes was lacking. The scenery can be drab, and photography is unfocused with erratic shots and fuzzy picture quality. The sound sounds very dull, and tends to favour the music, making its grandeur occasionally rather too grand, drowning out the dialogue. Not that the dialogue was anything to write about, it does sound rather trite and stilted with some awkward humour. The story does lack excitement, suspense and fun, it's all a bit predictable and bland, while the action is undermined by unexciting and too safe choreography, confused and sloppy editing and a lack of interaction between the human characters and the creatures. The direction does show occasional inspiration but is mostly flat and the acting is at times stiff, especially from Nicola Posener. Kevin Sorbo's screen time is very limited (only five minutes) and he has next to nothing to do in this time, he can be entertaining but he goes through the motions here. Overall, not bad, not good; a mediocre quest with its moments. 5/10 Bethany Cox

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