Tales of an Ancient Empire (2010)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Just perfect...

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The Sword and the Sorcerer was long counted as one of those movies that promised a sequel but never delivered. Even though a movie with (quite some) flaws, it was fun and entertaining to some demographic I personally am lucky to be part of. With that in mind, when I found out that a sequel was upcoming I was of course interested to see it.Not many sequels are in par with the quality of the original, and even fewer exceed it. Especially with so many years and movies in between the two. I should've seen it coming, but I was still shocked at what a stinker Tales of an Ancient Empire turned out to be.The story, even to those who can quote multiple lines from the original, was disjointed, and really seemed like it was thrown together from various unfinished ideas, like the lyrics for Nik Kershaw's The Riddle. While in the 80's it proved to be the makings of a hit song, it has never been successfully done in a movie. Especially with too little acting skill and too much blue/green-screen (for comparison, SWIII comes to mind). Yet, hats of to mr. Sorbo and mr. Horsley for being shiny beacons of professionalism and skill in this hapless jumble. And just when the story starts to make a bit of sense, the films ends abruptly.I do not understand how someone considers this movie (and especially the ending) "artsy". If this film is artsy with delightfully meandering and complex narrative, captivating scenery and top-notch acting, then drunken nightclub party rocking is interpretive dance and the youtube-videos of an animal playing the piano are the high point of western classical music. And that's not a world I want to live in.For me this movie was like opening a bottle of (cheap) white wine, yet finding out on the first taste that it's vinegar. The appropriate action is to spit it out, throw out the bottle, and go for something better. I, however, drank this movie to the very last drop.Avoid.

this movie might have been OK if it were done by the people that make the scorpion king movies but with such a low budget I would not have even bothered.most of the movie is done with the characters standing in front of green screens relying on cheap cgi effects..The fight scenes are mostly done with pictures and a woman telling the story of how the fight happened and who won.. no actual fighting occurs.the acting is what is excepted in a B rated movie..However the only bright spot of the film is that it has a lot of beautiful women to look at in it.hell the first 20 minutes is so boring I kept fast forwarding till actual movie footage was present and not the cheesy way they present the story...

Tales of an Ancient Empire. The phrase, "I've seen better acting from extras in Godzilla movies," can be taken literally. As bad as the acting is, and it is the worst I've ever seen. This coming from someone who's watched Ed Wood movies without a laugh track, and Yor Hunter From the Future straight without MST3K commentary. I don't know that Anthony Hopkins, Robert Downey Jr., and the late great Heath Ledger trying to play at acting that badly could be so bad. As bad as the acting is, and it is just so bad, the writing's worse. My God, it's as if Uwe Boll were given a Michael Bay Plot treatment with George Lucas running script doctor on the dialog. Except that I think that would be better. I really truly do. Perhaps we could get the first graders from South Park Elementary to be the cast. So if you want to see a bad B-movie, for the love of God see something else. Watch Reindeer Games, watch a junior high fan fiction of Star Trek on youtube. In the name of all that is holy, watch C-SPAN!

I don't really know what to say. I think I can make better CGI in paint, and the acting is better in porno movies. Kevin Sorbo did a good job, but you get the same amount of good acting in the Hercules TV show. Melissa Ordway on the other hand, wow, you know she got this part for her pretty face, not her acting skills. If you want some kind of adventure, STAY AWAY! Go for a walk in a park and hit a tree with a twig. Wow! Much better fun than this movie... Catwoman is better than this movie... It might seem like I am only bitching, but I feel like I need to warn people about this half made movie...Oh yes, this is only part 1...and no part 2 has been started...