Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Artivels Undescribable Perfection

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

petedominicrobinson This swords and sci-fi short is very impressive for what it is - an independent, crowd funded flick set in Predieval (TM) period, done on a minimal budget in a short turnaround time. The biggest problem IS that it isn't long enough, but that is more down to the fact that it would have been able to flesh out the characters a bit more. It was never really going to happen in a sub 30 minute film, and an extra 20 minutes might have helped it, and potentially could be used as a decent pilot episode for a series,, were it not unofficial! Another problem with it was the script, or rather, the dialog. The the plot was not exactly original, and had a couple of rather hackneyed plot and characterisation devices, such as 'let's split up... ' , an almost inevitable 'christian vs muslim' thread and a little mod to equality that seemed a little forced, it was to the point. But to achieve this, the dialogue seemed a little forced, and as trying to prove it's medieval cred.A little ( or a lot!) more research into the period, and more fluid, dynamic dialogue would have raised my score an extra 1- 2 stars, since there was very little to fault in the sparse but effective, even nostalgic effects. Solidly done, as were the fight scenes. Well, scene. The director made good use of the limited budget on locations, being shot entirely in woods / the countryside save one scene shot in a pretty convincing but er... compact and bijou... encampment. Obviously such constraints need to be made, but good use of sweeping ariel shots give a sense of scale, and the locations and cinematography belie the fact that this was shot for the price of a Danny Glover lookalike for your childs party. Props and costumes were very good - minimal, as they would have been - but adequate. I haven't said much about the acting, and that's because it didn't strike me as much as the other things did. It is adequate. Good, even, given the dialogue they had to work with. With a better scriptwriter, and an extra 20 minutes, this could have been a very proficient pilot for a series. *For <$6000! They could film a whole series of this for the cost of even an average Netflix pilot! :) I enjoyed it. I was pretty much mistaken in my suspicion that a fan- flic was going to be low- budget- awful, and i feel that i can rate this short against major Hollywood releases , and still feel fair in giving it a solid 6. Imagine what they could do with a even a Netflix budget!

Smoreni Zmaj This 27 minutes independent fan film stands shoulder to shoulder with original franchise and it is totally unbelievable what they did without support of high budget studios. Smart choice of epoch made it possible to have very convincing scenery and costumes with minimal expenses. Movie is short, fast, and without any introduction or background story it puts as straight to action, and still succeeds to show pretty strong characterization. Without any doubt the best fan film I have ever seen.8/10

Ciaran Begley First off, this is a well put together fan movie. I'd say predator fans would be satisfied. It plays very safe; so it does rip off the previous movie's though. However, for a fan movie, this is incredibly well made. The acting is solid and the script is good. The action is well directed and the score and effects are in line. I actually want this to be made into a proper Hollywood movie!

Maor Mamaa As a true fan of Predator, even an absolute freak of it, I must say - picking the Dark Ages is brilliant. Shear Brilliance. Thank you for making this and keeping the Predator alive. The movie is not perfect, of course, but it is very close to it. Assuming you had a small budget doing this film just make it even better.Even though I enjoyed a lot watching it (I must admit, 3 times over the past 3 hours), I had some issues with it which I'll regard right now. First of all, actors doesn't seem to struggle. What I mean is, they do not "run". It looks like they are walking fast. Neither heavy breathing nor sweat. Second, Predator's invisibility cloak seems odd. Predator movies must get back to the roots of Schwarzenegger's Predator (1987) or even Glober's when it comes to camouflage. Third, Predator does not seem to terrify, as he not running around the target like a mad-man. Just showing there. Fourth, fighting scenes are too slow and characters appear to be standing.But, in this case, the pros get way over the cons. I mean, as I said before, Dark Ages? Genius. I must start with the soundtrack. It is great, incredible, some of the sound is new and some of it reminds the original (I'm positive none of it is copied because of copyright issues, right?). Actors dressed great for the period presented in the movie and also the jungle area just fits perfectly. Predator on full state (without cloak) looks amazing, just like the first one. Storyline is deep, too bad the movie is too short to dig in more into that. I've been expecting for some sort of a sequel to this franchise and this one just hit the spot. If I'll start writing on everything that is good about this short film, I won't be done here. All this greatness just shadows over every err made. Overall, this one is 9.5/10. Why 9.5? Because this masterpiece is only 25 minute long. Great job!