I sat down to watch the 2016 adventure movie "Mythica: The Godslayer" here in 2022. I found out that this is apparently the fifth movie in the franchise, and I do believe that I might have seen one or two of the predecessing movies, though I can't recall them, not even if my life depended on it. So I can't say that I was harboring much of any expectations to writers Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin.
And with good cause, because the storyline told in "Mythica: The Godslayer" was just utter rubbish. I didn't even manage to get halfway through the ordeal, because the pacing of the narrative was sleep-inducingly slow and nothing worthwhile was happening as the story took forever to get from A to B. So no thumbs up on the writing for this movie.
Nor can I say that I cared for the character gallery in the movie. In fact, even having just turned off the movie, I can't even recall the names of any characters in the movie. Yeah, the character gallery was that bland and pointless.
The one thing that "Mythica: The Godslayer" had working for it, though, were the props and costumes. I liked those. But set against a non-existing storyline and pointless characters, then props and wardrobe could only do so much.
Then there were the sounds that they opted to give the zombies. Are you kidding me? It just made the zombie scenes go straight to being laughable and ludicrous to witness.
Director John Lyde failed entirely to provide a movie that had anything interesting to offer. And I have been playing role-playing games for about 35 years now, and I failed to find any entertainment in "Mythica: The Godslayer". So this is by no means a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on.
I am rating "Mythica: The Godslayer" a generous two out of ten stars, and that is based on the props and costumes alone.
And with good cause, because the storyline told in "Mythica: The Godslayer" was just utter rubbish. I didn't even manage to get halfway through the ordeal, because the pacing of the narrative was sleep-inducingly slow and nothing worthwhile was happening as the story took forever to get from A to B. So no thumbs up on the writing for this movie.
Nor can I say that I cared for the character gallery in the movie. In fact, even having just turned off the movie, I can't even recall the names of any characters in the movie. Yeah, the character gallery was that bland and pointless.
The one thing that "Mythica: The Godslayer" had working for it, though, were the props and costumes. I liked those. But set against a non-existing storyline and pointless characters, then props and wardrobe could only do so much.
Then there were the sounds that they opted to give the zombies. Are you kidding me? It just made the zombie scenes go straight to being laughable and ludicrous to witness.
Director John Lyde failed entirely to provide a movie that had anything interesting to offer. And I have been playing role-playing games for about 35 years now, and I failed to find any entertainment in "Mythica: The Godslayer". So this is by no means a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on.
I am rating "Mythica: The Godslayer" a generous two out of ten stars, and that is based on the props and costumes alone.