worst film this summer

Rating: 2/10 (4 December 2007)

I must say, although I did not read the poem (at least not entirely, but the rest only in a summary), this was awful. If you have seen the preview, well, the heavy metal music is missing, otherwise it would at least have been a good music video clip.
Others have already spoken about the literary quality of this video clip (ie. it's hardly related to the poem), and you will only enjoy this one if you are willing to see a 100-min animation sequence as if cut from a computer game, waiting for the part when you can make something happen. This was boring. Anything the characters say is quite dull, and the action is so average that you are forced to notice the lengthy scenes without content. I have seen the German version, so I cannot comment on the words being in plain English (ie. not like the poem), but it was certainly not worth listening to these - overly predictable - developments.
The action, if that's what you want to call it, hardly makes up for the weak storyline (only the showdown I didn't regret watching, therefore 2 out of 10), mind you not of the medieval story but this Zemecki clip. This is among his weakest films.