The Rangers: Bloodstone

IMDB refused to post my review the first time so I'm giving it another go - Most reviews give this film 1 star and say things like "The acting is bad and it looks cheap, like some low budget LARP movie"... This IS a low budget LARP movie. I imagine a group of friends who love DnD got their hands on an orc costume and decided to make a movie, so rather than grade it a 1 because it doesn't compare to LotR, i'll grade it based on what it actually is, a low budget family LARP movie. Pros - +Lots of different camera angles! That's refreshing for a LARP movie! +I thought the orc looked pretty good *shrug* +Acting wasn't half bad for the type of film it is, Wolf J Sherrill especially stood out as fairly charismatic +I know some people thought the time jumps and flashbacks were confusing but I thought it made it a bit more interesting than your average "Man journeys through woods" movie. +The guy definitely looked the part of a ranger, I feel like he wishes he could dress like that all the time. +Lots of extras! Got the whole neighborhood in costume for that town scene, good job. +Nice drone shots, pretty scenery, that always adds some value. Cons -He spent 4000 days training with the ancient one? That's about 10 years, that girl is grown or got eaten by orcs ages ago, I have a feeling they didn't do the math on that one. -I don't know exactly how much time has past but that outlander never washed the blood off his beard. Kind of bothered me after a while. -How bout some special effects next time? Little sparkly magic for that necromancer? Everybody has at least one friend with access to Adobe After Effects. -Could use a few more locations - I get that it's easiest and cost effective to film in the woods but maybe a little guerilla filming in...I dunno, got any old ruins up there in Canada? A nearby lake? All in all, it is what it is, and for what it is, it's not half bad. I've definitely seen worse acted, worse filmed low budget movies, I think this crew has potential. Summary: C'mon people, it's not that bad.

We were looking for something interesting to watch and decided this might fit the bill. Well, I'm sorry but it didn't it really really really didn't. This is the most disjointed illogical and ridiculous attempt at a movie that I have seen in decades. Actually to be honest it makes the movies from Asylum look like Academy Award material. So, if you decide to watch this dog, do yourself a favour and don't. It's not worth the time trying figure out the plot or trying to figure out the idiotic and unrealistic choices the hero makes throughout his quest. I got half way through and the story telling, the poor acting and the ridiculous plot killed it for me. It might be some peoples cup of tea but it certainly wasn't mine and it's definitely a case of buyer or in this instance unsuspecting victim, beware.

This is the 19th movie in my weekly B-Grade movie night streak. This was the only one I couldn't finish, and I watched a movie called Sharks of the Corn. It was unbearably boring. I couldn't tell you anything that happened in it and I watched nearly an hour and a half. It felt like an excuse for the writer/director/star to justify to his wife more cosplay wardrobe. I expected more from Canada.

At first, I was going to trash this movie, but then I thought better of it. This is definitely not a GOOD movie, but if it's this company's first attempt, the group could have some potential. Also, I'm pretty sure that this was a basement budget movie, which in itself limits the end product. Don't give up!

Very amateurish attempt at The Rings of the Nibelung, or some kind of Lord of the Rings thing, or Shannara Chronicles. But this flick is poorly done. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site, which has many indie films, foreign films, older major releases; and now, live TV.

Seriously funny romp, If you are not so worried about well developed story, clear dialogue and competent acting but have a genuine fondness for the unintended humour of poorly choreographed woodlands combat, lengthy periods of beardy journaling and incoherent character motivation then this movie is for you. The basic premise is that a po-faced hero is tracking a band, well, a couple of orcs who have kidnapped his daughter only to find his destiny is..no, no that's it, just the find the kid thing, there's some other stuff that happens, but not a lot of it really make sense, or adds to the story in any meaningful way. At some point during a pointless flashback the hero is literally told by a witch in a tee-pee with an hilariously screechy Jamaican/Chinese accent that his daughter is going to be kidnapped by orcs, so our hero leaves the kid alone in a forest frequented by orcs, I mean, what? Like dude, seriously, you were warned this would happen? There's so much more of that kind of comedy gold, that I'm convinced it's intentional, it has to be, this stuff doesn't happen by accident. If you have ever participated in a game of D&D where the DM's favourite rule book book is a thesaurus, and all the players are slightly hung over and doing their best to derail the story so they can get killed and go home, then you'll be familiar with the overall feel.

Needless to say that I had never heard about the 2021 fantasy adventure movie "The Rangers: Bloodstone" from writer and director David Nordquist. And with it being a fantasy movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to give the movie a chance, as I have been an avid fantasy fan since my early teen years. Honestly speaking, then I wasn't expecting "The Rangers: Bloodstone" to be more than yet another movie made by LARPers for LARPers; you know, the Live Action Role-Playing thing with loons running around in the forest dressed up as wizards, rangers and orcs, playing Dungeons & Dragons. I will say that "The Rangers: Bloodstone" started out okay, but then the movie stalled some time before even reaching the midway point and the movie just lost momentum as the air quickly seeped from the balloon, so to speak. So this wasn't exactly a great addition to the fantasy genre, not like the movies like "Beastmaster", "Lord of the Rings", etc. Sure, "The Rangers: Bloodstone" is watchable, if you enjoy fantasy movies, just don't go expect a whole lot from the storyline, because it started out okay, then just slowly died a slow, horrible death along the way. And yeah, there definitely was some LARPing atmosphere going on in "The Rangers: Bloodstone", I will not lie about that. Actually, in one scene where Drustan Lorne (played by the writer and director himself) was being attacked by some thugs, one of the thugs wore a leather helmet exactly like one I have on display at home. So yeah, this was a low key home-made LARP movie, no doubt about it. This is not a movie that I would recommend you spend your time, money or effort on. And it was a movie that came and went without as much as a squeak of noise for me. And it will fade into oblivion by the end of today, of that I am certain. My rating of David Nordquist's "The Rangers: Bloodstone" lands on a three out of ten stars.