As a Civil War enthusiast, I was quite prepared to give this movie a go despite how bad it could be. However, after 5 minutes I had to turn it off--something I've never done before. Seriously, I have never heard a script so badly spoken like this. It looks like it was filmed on the 1st rehearsal. The make-up of the slave getting beaten in the beginning was cheap and looked fake. The whole thing looked like a high-school production. Avoid unless you're a masochist.
18 Reviews
Never have I seen so bad
joemac-915 June 2021
horrible movie. waste of time
OzMovieWatcher29 July 2021
Horrible
dlaughlin-900469 September 2021
I am not going to call this a movie. It looks more like an elementary school project. The only qualification for an actor is to be old fat and have a beard. The same for the actresses. Lol. I just can't believe people actually made this and spent money on it. It's awful.
Hopeless terrible low budget movie
sergio-3221326 July 2021
An Abomination
cotterrp18 August 2021
Just horrible. The actors might as well have been holding a script. They came across as reading anyway, and did a lousy job of that. Battle scenes were phony-2 soldiers waving swords twice, and then separating. Lousy directing. I turned it off, Why is this even on the air? Dump it, and save the "actors" from further embarrassment. Honestly, I have never seen a movie this bad.
Wooden Acting
bwucee23 August 2021
How can a movie like this appear? It has the hallmark of a school kids movie, first effort. Cant watch it! Someone spent lots of money on what would have been a reasonable storyline, but isn't. Only watch if yo have nothing else to do.
OOOOOF
mgbxr5 November 2021
I saw the reviews and they made me laugh. "Surely, it can't be THAT bad right?" - hahaha boy was I wrong. This movie is so terrible, so utterly cringe inducing that it would be impossible for RiffTrax to even parody it - which in itself is quite an accomplishment.
I couldn't stomach more than 5 minutes. Not even in a row, I fast forwarded a bunch and it kept getting worse. I hope the actors at least enjoyed making it.
I couldn't stomach more than 5 minutes. Not even in a row, I fast forwarded a bunch and it kept getting worse. I hope the actors at least enjoyed making it.
Worst movie ever made
gkhege9 April 2023
Oh my! I'm 74 and a Vietnam Combat veteran and I can tell you I've seen at least 500 movies in my lifetime. This looked and sounded terrible. Everyone seemed to be reading off cue cards. It is such a terrible effort that I can't find six hundred bad words to fill out the required characters. I see you must use 600 words even though the other reviewers only used around 50. It appears the casting director went to a local highway rest area and recruited people right off the Greyhound buses or just went to the local Mall and picked up the first group of bass fishermen they could find. This movie proves that absolutely anyone can take an IPhone and get it on Prime Video.
The worst film could be the best entertainment.....
fwpahlke20 November 2021
Bad movie making is an art. Viewing a bad movie is also an art. This film has some nice things going for it. The color print is mostly in focus and the editor's cuts are so basic that it enhances the terrible acting as they deliver their lines of one of the worst scripts around. Put it all together and in a sick sort of way I was entertained. I hope to hell hell this director reads this review and I would love to start an acting career at my late age of 68. For this director, I will give you what you have never had. A five star review. Viewed on Amazon Prime.
Unfortunately I can't give a .01 rating
briern-9299210 September 2021
The most biased, grade school performance I have ever seen. My grade school children would be ashamed themselves for such poor acting. This is the kind of stereotyping of soldiers that continues to divide our country. Please do not watch this expecting historical fiction/drama. It is merely a pile of gray compost.
Do NOT recommend this movie!!
jlanich-3783427 September 2021
This is the worst movie I have ever seen. The acting is so terrible and it looks like a little kid filmed the whole thing. Why this was published and put on shelves I don't know but it needs to be taken off. This was a waste of $10. It's not even worth a penny. I ABSOLUTELY DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE!!! Absolutely awful!!!! I would rather watch Barney or the muppets rather then this garbage.
Worst attempt at a War Between the States movie EVER
mqbvngth29 May 2023
If I could give this negative 10 stars I would. Absolutely the lamest, cringiest attempt at a action war movie ever. Looks like something homeschoolers made with a camcorder and clothes from Goodwill. This movie shouldnt even be on Prime. Embarrassing. Whoever wrote the script and directed it needs atomic swirlies. The drawls sounded faker then fake, battle scenes were quite unconvincing that it wasn't a backyard reenactment, and the wardrobe looked cheesy beyond comparison. And none of the hairstyles and actors looked like they fit. All of it was utter garbage. No offense to whoever produced this but you should keep your day job for now till you can do better.
Too /bad There Are Not Negative Intergers
aturfa29 August 2023
This film is so bad that I had to keep watching, if only to see how it could get worse. It did. Not only was the production itself bad, the content is equally so.
The acting is wooden at best. My high school classes could have done better. The people appearing in this production speak as though they are trying to remember their lines. They would have had problems also, since the scipt is dreadful. They look too often into the camera, as if there are signals being given.
Battle sequences are very bad; it looks like only one was made and parts serve for different engagements. Whoever portrays General Longstreet does not even look like the historical figure.
The title itself is misleading. The film is about Hamptson , some family members and comrades, and his slave "friend." More on that later. There is no representation of the Legion except for a few soldiers.
Hampton tells the slave that they are friends. That part will likely be used in certain GOP campaign commericals
The same outfit I think produced somethign about a South Carolina Revolutionary War figure that was almost as bad.
The acting is wooden at best. My high school classes could have done better. The people appearing in this production speak as though they are trying to remember their lines. They would have had problems also, since the scipt is dreadful. They look too often into the camera, as if there are signals being given.
Battle sequences are very bad; it looks like only one was made and parts serve for different engagements. Whoever portrays General Longstreet does not even look like the historical figure.
The title itself is misleading. The film is about Hamptson , some family members and comrades, and his slave "friend." More on that later. There is no representation of the Legion except for a few soldiers.
Hampton tells the slave that they are friends. That part will likely be used in certain GOP campaign commericals
The same outfit I think produced somethign about a South Carolina Revolutionary War figure that was almost as bad.
The worse acting ever
wasabnrgr13 May 2023
Wow, there was such a thing as Hampton's Legion. I thought it might be a good movie. However, they should've had me in there as an actor, that's how terrible the acting was. While accurate in certain ways because there were spectators in the opening battles, but what do you call Lazy writing, for the scrip; that would be a compliment . The battles resembled Civil War re-enactments. I'm too lazy to talk anymore but I thought I saw someone with a cell phone.😎 I never saw many fat sausage eating winosas troops. The average size of someone was about 140lbs. The script makes everyone sound very not educated when it back it was probably the most literate population in our nations history.
WORST EVER
daytradermillion9 August 2022
This abysmal failure of a flick would have been better if they had just said nothing. To say it was bad is a compliment; it was the worst ever.
And with a drought in the production of period pieces, this flop didn't help the genre a lick.
And with a drought in the production of period pieces, this flop didn't help the genre a lick.
Reenactors having a good day but no story being told
james_ruzicka19 February 2024
Not quite sure if there was a point to this movie, or if there were any actors available to portray the leads.
The movie looked like several reenactments that I have been to but told no story.
I would like to know more about the title character and why/how he funded his army.
There were no actors to keep your attention. The whole show seems to have been completed by people who have never worked on a movie.
I would have liked to know more about the Hampton family and why they made a point to mention it in the story introduction.
If you have nothing else to do, find something else to do, rather than watch this one.
The movie looked like several reenactments that I have been to but told no story.
I would like to know more about the title character and why/how he funded his army.
There were no actors to keep your attention. The whole show seems to have been completed by people who have never worked on a movie.
I would have liked to know more about the Hampton family and why they made a point to mention it in the story introduction.
If you have nothing else to do, find something else to do, rather than watch this one.
3rd graders in a school play are better actors.
mitchellnichols-705622 January 2023
I have never spent more money on a completely worthless, pitiful movie. I can't believe this was even put on DVD. 3rd graders could do a much better job of acting and saying their lines. The director must have been blind and deaf. I bought this at Dollar Tree for $1.25. I believe the director owes me at least $1.24 back because it wasn't worth 2 cents. The DVD cover looked awesome. That's why i bought it. Never judge a book by its cover.... or a DVD. Probably the worst movie I have ever seen in my life. The actors and actresses aren't going to win any Academy Awards. They won't even win a Razzie because i don't even think the Razzies stoop this low.
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