While trying to create a movie about the Warhammer 40k, your taking on a daunting task. beyond anything else, the vast scope and scale of the 40k universe makes it complicated and costly to make a movie about.
Ultramarines deals with this by keeping the focus narrow and tight on a small group of Troops and there leader, rather then the Large scale, sometimes massive battles that occur in the other media and the board game itself.
Warning: Spoilers may occur.
That said, lets talk about the good.
Voice work: Being an CGI animated feature, this had to be good, and thanks to some top notch work by the principle actors, it came out very good. It's worth watching just to hear some rather famous voices shouting things you'd never expect them to say, such as john Hurt screaming out "BURN Heritic" during a battle.
Sound work: Faithful to it's source material and we designed. The guns have the nice solid boom you want to hear, the chain sword sounds, like a chainsaw sword should. The ambient sound and music, when needed, and the other sound work is all top notch.
Visual: effective and acceptable, if not perfect, it's only major weakness is that the limited budget meant the scope had to be limited as well, so we couldn't get to see the big, expansive battles one would expect to see in the 40k universe.
Now, the not so good.
Story: while functional and a good start, it again falls prey to the limits of scope. With a small cast, you need to give them more to work with as far as character development is concerned, and beyond a few items, there's not a whole lot of it in this story, nor is the story all that unique or interesting. Non fans may find it cliché as a result.
Overall: 7, not bad, not great, a good start and hopefully any future movies will be given bigger budgets and allowed greater scope then this one was, but as a starting point, it works and works well.
Worth a look.
Ultramarines deals with this by keeping the focus narrow and tight on a small group of Troops and there leader, rather then the Large scale, sometimes massive battles that occur in the other media and the board game itself.
Warning: Spoilers may occur.
That said, lets talk about the good.
Voice work: Being an CGI animated feature, this had to be good, and thanks to some top notch work by the principle actors, it came out very good. It's worth watching just to hear some rather famous voices shouting things you'd never expect them to say, such as john Hurt screaming out "BURN Heritic" during a battle.
Sound work: Faithful to it's source material and we designed. The guns have the nice solid boom you want to hear, the chain sword sounds, like a chainsaw sword should. The ambient sound and music, when needed, and the other sound work is all top notch.
Visual: effective and acceptable, if not perfect, it's only major weakness is that the limited budget meant the scope had to be limited as well, so we couldn't get to see the big, expansive battles one would expect to see in the 40k universe.
Now, the not so good.
Story: while functional and a good start, it again falls prey to the limits of scope. With a small cast, you need to give them more to work with as far as character development is concerned, and beyond a few items, there's not a whole lot of it in this story, nor is the story all that unique or interesting. Non fans may find it cliché as a result.
Overall: 7, not bad, not great, a good start and hopefully any future movies will be given bigger budgets and allowed greater scope then this one was, but as a starting point, it works and works well.
Worth a look.