A movie that features two of my favourite B class actors, Jeffrey Combs and Brian Thompson, and is a Dr. Strange story (after they lost the licence and had to change all the names) doesn't have the right to be this bad. Silly special effects, police officers getting Mordrid's amulet so he needs help getting it back, Brian Thompson with long blond hair, Mordrid having a love affair with a neighbour that happens to be into the mystic arts, Gunner! Come on!
The first five minutes of the film define its quality: slow motion scenes to enhance effect, I guess, of people just walking, a long view over Mordrid's room while credits are shown, a room filled with magical trinkets and burning candles, which later has no candles, but has 9 TV screens, Brian Thompson with long blond hair (!) and (cheap!) Terminator glasses which he never uses again the entire film. And the rest just continues like that. Everything is cheap, low quality, acting is bad, it's badly edited, storyline doesn't make sense, etc. Earth is being protected by a strong wizard from another strong wizard on orders from "The Monitor", an even more powerful being. One gets arrested by police, the other is killed by being impaled (after demonstrating spells that make one invincible to physical attack) and the last is just two giant eyes floating in space and being a jerk. It was ridiculous!
The strange (heh!) thing is that this film is beloved my many and I watched on a recommendation from someone who is an expert in comics and Star Trek and all sci-fi. Has popular YouTube channel and everything. There is *nothing* good in this film, not even the performance of the actors I like! It might be one of those unintentionally funny movies if you get drunk enough with friends, but I doubt even that.
Bottom line: don't watch it. It will sour your love for the actors and the original idea.
The first five minutes of the film define its quality: slow motion scenes to enhance effect, I guess, of people just walking, a long view over Mordrid's room while credits are shown, a room filled with magical trinkets and burning candles, which later has no candles, but has 9 TV screens, Brian Thompson with long blond hair (!) and (cheap!) Terminator glasses which he never uses again the entire film. And the rest just continues like that. Everything is cheap, low quality, acting is bad, it's badly edited, storyline doesn't make sense, etc. Earth is being protected by a strong wizard from another strong wizard on orders from "The Monitor", an even more powerful being. One gets arrested by police, the other is killed by being impaled (after demonstrating spells that make one invincible to physical attack) and the last is just two giant eyes floating in space and being a jerk. It was ridiculous!
The strange (heh!) thing is that this film is beloved my many and I watched on a recommendation from someone who is an expert in comics and Star Trek and all sci-fi. Has popular YouTube channel and everything. There is *nothing* good in this film, not even the performance of the actors I like! It might be one of those unintentionally funny movies if you get drunk enough with friends, but I doubt even that.
Bottom line: don't watch it. It will sour your love for the actors and the original idea.