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!

LT_drone Acting was average, dialog and story line was uncreative and written for a 2 year old. the flow of the movie is non fluid and the characters unbelievable, on top of it all they have sacran and templars cooperate together (with out any lead up or explanation). christians and muslim in unity. hmm nope even today muslims want to kill or subject every one else. why produce falsities of history with in entertainment. why sacrifice and butcher these great things such as the alien predator franchise to do it. some say it is fan made> but the franchise got bought out and they produced new feature films with this subversion which excludes it from the classification fan made. which removes all the excuses for the above mentioned points.im am saddened that yet another great thing got corrupted in this manner

Theo Robertson Somewhat foolishly I came in to this film thinking I was going to be watching an official follow up to the original PREDATOR franchise . I know what you're thinking - how can anyone be that naïve ? and perhaps I should defend myself by saying the franchise probably died as far back as he second film and there's very little mileage in the concept of a hunter alien visiting Earth to do mortal battle with the planet's warrior caste so you can imagine almost 30 years after the series started we'd now be getting the latest film released straight to DVD . I didn't imagine PREDATOR DARK AGES was going to be a fan film To be fair the production team have made a impressive fan film . The story itself is a little bit simplistic . A Saracan from the Middle East is conscripted in to helping some Templar knights in Europe to track down a demon that has been stalking the land .. There's not a lot of plot but it doesn't need to be since there's only a run time of half an hour and the brevity works in its favour . That said most of the strength comes from the directing , acting , musical score and perhaps most impressively cinematography . There's a striking scene where the Predator is in silhouette against the Sun and despite being relatively amateurish it's relatively more impressive than a lot of blockbusters you'll see . Well done everyone involved

ActorAndrewFord Basically, rips-off quite a bit of material from the previous Predator films and merely accepting that to create a reference isn't necessary. It's kind of a hybrid-rehash which, means it fails 50% in the CREATE ORIGINAL SCRIPT CONTENT area which; is what separates modern mass production films from the era of the late 70's-2000...NOT what quality FILMS ARE ABOUT! Story telling is an art... NOT EVERYBODY CAN DO IT.HOWEVER, don't let that blind you from truly RESPECTING and enjoying this short MASTERPIECE because the setting and twists especially in the ending is ORIGINAL and for a Indie short this damn good it sets a new standard and commitment level for the actors involved... although the average big, slow Predator suit and execution failed too. Absolute stand-alone film! If 100% original version with none of the mistakes I mentioned. A 100% successful Full feature is very possible.