Richard The Lionheart

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Bravissimo, Stefano Milla he has return-ed. Unfortunately, he has brought with him an extremely opaque film that was way too ambiguous with its storytelling for its own good. Richard the Lionheart is an under lit and very boring slog that has some fantasy elements to it, but takes itself way too seriously to be any fun. Does not help that the performances are either flat or obnoxiously overkill. But that doesn't even matter though, because there is simply little to no plot here. A series of endurance tests for our stroppy prince protagonist that all pale in comparison to the endurance test that is watching this film. Add on top of that terrible sound design, awkward editing, abysmal pacing and only fleeting moments of gore and nudity, and what you have is simply a tedious experience that makes me pine for the golden era of Italian genre cinema then I could ever imagine. Do not watch Richard the Lionheart. It is not worth your time.

I was physically ill after watching this for only 20 minutes. The one ironic thing about this production was the armor and costumes were very accurate, with none of the corners cut in most medieval films, so someone clearly cared about the historical accuracy of the armor. But it seems they failed to hire a writer who could put together a sentence that made sense, let alone a plot. Don't waste your time on this trash!

If the Italian review has any validity, Malcolm McDowell got most of the money spent on this thing. And if he read the script beforehand, he could ONLY be doing it for the money.... The Introductory Sequence made absolutely no sense & everything went downhill from there. I think monkeys wrote the script & a couple humans put their name on it. The last scene has some basis in History but nothing that came before it does. Loved the Druidess, although I think she had about 90 seconds of total screen time. I have a serious soft spot for bad movies, but this was just painful.

I am totally amazed at how bad this movie is!!! I am writing and watching at the same time. Everything about this film screams Amateur crap!! First instinct would be to say that a 1st grade class could do a better job at film making but that would be just too generous. It really is that bad! Only one good thing about this film is the picture on the cover. Its a decent photo. The sound resembles someone talking in a bathroom stall. The actors should get their money back from acting school. The producer and director should be arrested, and the next time the writer gets a vision, he should envision more than a $50.00 budget, and not spend $45.00 of that money on weed and whiskey. My cell phone takes better video and has better sound. Every possible effect you can imagine is being used in this train wreck. . The set is so bad that the jail BARS are made of 2x2 wooden posts that have the saw marks from a table saw/rip saw. So much to list I am just blown away that someone would actually claim to have made this.

If there is only one small redeeming quality about Richard: The Lionheart, it's that they did get Henry II's sons' names right, the only bit of history in the movie that's accurate. Other than that, the low-budget shows in some of the cheapest and most vague costumes and sets there's been for any low-budget movie, the modified night-gowns comparison for the costumes is pretty apt and from the way the movie looks it is not clear what the setting is. The special effects never rise above crude standard and the sound constantly sounds as if it was recorded in an over-reverberant bathroom, which is really jarring. The music is the opposite of rousing, instead it's monotonous and sounds like a very, very pale imitation of Hans Zimmer in places. The dialogue sounds stilted and underwritten(especially in the very clunkily-written romance scenes), with a lot of the line delivery being very awkward, plus it has a weird mix of archaic and contemporary so you never feel as though you've been transported to the era of the Plantagenets. Richard: The Lionheart is flatly directed throughout that has the word inexperience all over it, and has uniformly bad performances from a largely unknown cast, most of them under-acting to the point of not looking as if they want to be there. Even worse is that the movie also wastes Malcolm McDowell who on paper seemed perfect and would elevate, but his performance is a mix of over-compensating and sleepwalking through and not helped by being hampered by having little to work with. The story is the biggest failing, it is often very difficult to follow, some scenes drag on for far too long and uses plot devices so overused already that it becomes very predictable as well. The action sequences are incredibly lazy, both in pace(like being in slow-motion) and choreography, school playground fights are honestly far more believable. In conclusion, just horrible in all areas, apart from that one historical accuracy, and unforgivably wastes McDowell. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Here we are: an Italian independent filmmaker try to make a movie with a great character of history: Richard the Lionheart. The invention for a genre movie are a lot. Yes we face for the first time the embryo of what will surely be in the future will be the Spaghetti-Fantasy. A genre that will take cues from real historical facts and that will mix them in a completely new imagery. I'm really curious to see the second chapter that, to my knowledge, was selected in the Temecula Independent Film Festival. We will see what Stefano Milla will do with this great character. The participation in the cast of the legendary Clockwork Orange's actor Malcolm McDowell in the part of the King Henry II is to be savored, word for word. Despite all the bad grades that I've seen give to the film I realized that people, given the presence of the great actor, thought that the movie was made with a lot of money. I read some interviews with the director Stefano Milla and the reality is quite different, because it seems that the overall budget did not exceed 30k dollars. Knowing this, the director, costume designer and the whole crew have done a miracle. So, the advice to everyone that in the future will watch the movie: Know that you are about to witness a product of true genius with a ridiculous budget and with a great actor who, despite all these limitations, put the face and believed in the movie. In fact, I have no news of Malcolm McDowell took away from this product. This is the final proof of what I support. So, go Stefano Milla: go go go!

Absolutely horrible...Didn't want to feel like I wasted my money (any more than I already did)renting it so I fast forwarded through most of it to just watch it. Bad acting would be kind to it, barely even loosely based on Richard, even the love scenes were horrible. Couldn't follow the plot, as much as it could be called that, and the sound was horrible, so it was tough to make out what they were saying...or maybe it was just the dialogue was that boring and pointless.My $1.20 was wasted...They tried and failed to gain gravitas with MacDowell, and why were the Romans in this at all? I've never seen Rome or Caesar connected in any way to Any Lionheart legend... Don't waste your time on this movie. I wish I'd checked it out, I could have watched paint dry for two hours and been more entertained.

As the scoring on my vote says, it's awful. There's nothing much to say. You can tell the movie is low budget withing 2 minutes of watching it. But no reduced budget is no reason to make such a extremely bad movie. Everything looks to be done the wrong way in this film. The story doesn't even hold just by itself. And when you add the cameras, the effects, the actors (oh, my god, what's is wrong with these guys?), it just get worse (as if something like that where even possible). I tried to give it a few minutes, to see if it could get ANY better, in ANY aspect. Didn't happen. In fact, I just watched the entire movie (total waste of time). Just to see what other people thought about this movie, I checked the IMDb rating. At the moment I'm writing this, it has a 3 rating... someone is giving away rating points as a gift. Watchout, "Plan 9 from outer space", we have a new winner for WORST MOVIE EVER. Follow my advice: If you can, DON'T watch it.