Good movie but grossly overrated

Fresh and Exciting

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Orcs after an Elven Princess in the modern world... a man finds her and decides to protect her against them with his guns (which the Orcs think is "magic").This film is not a comedy but does have a few funny moments of deliberate humor. Although this film isn't comedy, it does remind me just a little bit of the 2011 comedy 'Orcs!' because of the Orcs in modern day society and guns being used against them - the only similarities between the two films.'Dragonfyre' aka 'Orc Battles' is not a good film but is actually entertaining in a strange way for me. I would only recommend this film to those that appreciate the efforts of a B-film and that has an affinity towards Orcs, Elves and, maybe, D&D.6.5/10

Yeah, ORC WARS isn't too bad for what it is: a really cheesy and unbelievable action-packed B-movie that happily rips off the look of the orcs from THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. I mean, the orcs in this film are EXACTLY the same as in those Peter Jackson movies: so much so that if I worked for Weta Workshop I'd be tempted to sue. The orcs are the most entertaining part of this movie, but I'm not too sure about their presence in the real, contemporary world.I mean, seeing orcs interacting with modern-day human characters, farmhouses, and vehicles is just plain odd and realism is never going to be a priority in that situation. Still, given that this is a B-movie with the usual problems (absolutely fake looking CGI fire, fake looking black blood clouds for the orcs, rubbish acting and a non-existent script) it's actually quite entertaining by the standards of the sub-genre.ORC WARS incorporates an absolute ton of action into its running time, particularly in the second half which involves a running battle between humans and orcs. Sure, a lot of it is repetitive, but they even manage a dragon in the budget, which is quite impressive. By the standards of normal film this is a complete waste of time, but as a B-movie you can do much, much worse.

I watched this film, all of it, and at the end I wondered why?Where was the set-up? Was I supposed to have read something or watched something else to know what this was about? Who or what was the woman in white? Who or what was the girl I think they were after? What was with the blind man? Why did he need to guard the tunnel, could it not have just been blocked with several tons of rock?But as the hero said, it could all be a dream while he was injured on a tour of duty with the army.Perhaps I was just dreaming and did not waste my time on this nonsense.

The idea of the film is pretty fun: there are gateworlds between the nine realms and they open pretty much whenever it suits them. At the gate to Earth there is a wizard standing guard to preserve balance. The wizard is an old man with a lot of guns, though, and his magic is gun powder. When he dies trying to protect the last elven princess, a soldier coming back from Iraq takes his place. The rest of the film is people shooting orcs and dragons.The problem is that the idea was completely lost on the filmmakers. They try to make it slightly fun and campy, but the bad acting, the clichés, the myriad inconsistencies, the plot holes, they all work together in making the movie a failure. Unlike another Arrowstorm film "Shadow Cabal", which I thought was awesome, this one has lame visual effects, lame battles, lame dialogues, lame everything.I reiterate that this idea had a lot of potential, pitting experienced modern war veterans with experienced medieval war orcs, with magic thrown in for good fun. Instead it felt like one of the bad sequels to Tremors, made by Asylum.