Best movie ever!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I was pretty sceptical at the beginning - having no idea what the movie was about, but I understood the humour within 10 minutes. The music also seemed queer at the start, but it finally sets the perfect tone for this movie. I have always been curious about live action role-playing game, I wondered how people can enter their role and leave the outer world behind, separating fantasy from real life. In this movie, you immerse in this universe perfectly. It was really interesting to see characters getting more and more confused between real life and fantasy, especially when fantasy gets real... Now I just hope every LARP week-end doesn't end like this. Congratulations to the wardrobe team on this, you could never imagine they produced this on a low budget. Lightyears from cheap Braveheart rags. DOP is A1, and the locations are perfect. All actors did a great job. What more to say? Watch it now!

The Wild Hunt is dark. The LARPers for the most part come across as craven, reminiscent of Vikings, nordic warriors and pub-dwellers alike.The lovers are morose throughout. The actors in the background were largely mute. The real gems of acting come from the King, the Viking leader and Shaman. But these were inconsistent.The film stood out because it evoked emotion and worry throughout, the soundtrack created mood and the well delivered tirades of screaming and begging encompassed tangible fear. The question of, "How far will they go?" really carried the film for me. Not wanting to have the dark side of humanity revealed but far too intrigued to stop watching.The cinematography was realistic, with the tone and music really pinpointing the despair of being locked in a false reality at the behest of others.There were moments where the film lulled to a crawl but this same failure, that of dragging time, really allowed the dramatic moments longevity.While I didn't enjoy all of the movie, I give it 7/10 for the innovation and emotions it evoked.

I have to say, as an all around lover of everything nerdy, I had high hopes for this movie. I really did. I am quite sad to say it failed on almost all points. For one, the main characters were one dimensional and shallow. Lyn went from trying to seduce someone, to running away from Erich, to outright fear for her life, then back to enjoyment in the time span of what couldn't have been more than a few hours. Doesn't make sense to me at all, maybe i'm just missing something. For two, the plot itself was poorly created with almost zero development, surprise or even a story line that made sense. Everything was expected. It was not a "Shakespearean Tragedy" as described, as at no point in the film did the protagonist ever move into the accepting fate portion of said writing style. However, there were quite a few redeeming moments, especially the well placed comedic relief. The SCA chapter (Society for Creative Anachronism and NOT LARP) that they found for a lot of this footage was quite good, especially the actual site, weapons, costumes, even some of the game events that just made up the background. I applaud that.However, my third and final point, as a LARP-er (Live Action Role Player), I burst into tears during the last 25 minutes of this movie and almost turned it off. It is very difficult for a movie to get to me, and I understand that this is fictional, but I have so many issues with this movie it's horrifying and would take up pages. As if we geeks didn't have it hard enough, sure go ahead and portray a completely harmless sport that has spent years and years trying to gain a favorable reputation and toss it out the window. Thanks.

Larpers (more properly L.A.R.P.ers, i.e. Live-Action Role Players, i.e. folks that dress up like goblins and wizards and engage in foam-sword combat in the woods) have been one side of a cinematic love affair, of late. Documentaries like Darkon and Monster Camp try and peel back the fake fur and face paint to see the real people beneath, while comedies like Role Models see in the admittedly nerdy hobby a wellspring of both laughs and weirdly noble self-realization.In director Alexandre Franchi's debut film The Wild Hunt, larping is something altogether more serious, and much more sinister. Erik Magnusson (Ricky Mabe), a Canadian born to an Icelandic father whom he now reluctantly cares for, is bothered by repeated dreams of a banging door and the sound of his girlfriend Evelyn (Tiio Horn) crying out in fear. Evelyn has left him for the weekend, to role play a princess in Erik's older brother Bjorn's larp-group, a viking and troll setting Bjorn (Mark A. Krupa) has all but disappeared into. To win her back, Erik must navigate the confusing, threatening larp world, where he discovers that some of the players aren't just escaping workaday responsibilities but are instead building a framework to work out some of their darker, more violent fantasies.It's an enjoyable film, troubled by a difficult script. On the one hand it's enjoyably novel: setting a murder-and-revenge story amongst the assumedly meek, awkward foam-sword and teva-sandals crowd is an entertaining twist, and Franchi, helped enormously by good Gothic set dec and often beautiful cinematography by Claudine Sauvé is able to wring surprisingly high drama out of the whole thing. On the other hand, in building up to the grand guignol finale the film strains and struggles, testing credulity both in terms of character motivation and in terms of basic emotional mathematics: it's hard at points to understand why Erik doesn't just dismiss the whole mess and go home. That said, there's rather more of the former dark beauty than the latter character weirdness, and the film (especially as a Canadian film artifact) is massively enjoyable on its merits, of which there are plenty. Missteps along a very original path are easily excused. 8/10