This movie takes place in a somewhat anachronistic setting, or maybe New Zealand. This is the Asylum mock buster for "Jack the Giant Slayer" and like "The Three Musketeers" this mockbuster has nothing in common with the plot of the original film, they just hope you get confused and buy their DVD. To conclude, not The Asylum's worst but has nothing to recommend it apart from perhaps Jane March's beauty. Ben Cross and Jane March(who actually gives the movie's best performance) fare better but are severely under-used so while they try hard their characters just don't register and they don't bring much particularly new to them either. The acting is poor, Jamie Atkins badly under-performs to the point that his performance is lost amidst everything else. The characters are annoying and never developed, they're just there for the sake of it. In my mind, the attempt to mix a Grimms fairytale-like atmosphere with a quasi-modern twist also didn't gel. The story, aside from it having a complete lack of originality and borrowing heavily from the likes of Jurassic Park and Aliens, is a structurally thin bore that doesn't make sense or have any charm, fun, wonder, thrills or heart. The dialogue is stilted and often sounded like senseless babbling with the actors clearly struggling to get their words out, it also has a lot of cheese and this is when the murky sound is not drowning it out too much. The music sounds weird, is not memorable in the slightest and doesn't fit at all. Watching the costumes, sets and props I didn't and still don't have a clue about what time period the movie was supposed to be set in, and the laughable special effects(especially with some of the worst dinosaur, seemingly poor and personality-less substitutes for giants, effects I've seen for any movie) and editing that looks that someone was having a drug hallucination are no better. It looks amateurish from a starting point.
Jack the Giant Killer is not the worst from them, but it is still really bad. The Asylum oddly enough have made a few tolerable movies though the best they get is only decent. While I hate most of the Asylum's movies with a passion, I keep watching because there is something somewhat entertaining about their awfulness and also there's a glimmer of hope that they'd do something halfway tolerable.
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