To me, this movie is perfection.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Ignore the rating. There's a simple way to tell if Ultramarines is worth your time. While playing Warhammer 40,000 video games, did you watch the cut scenes and say, "I wish there was a movie made of this?" If so, this is the movie for you.Never heard of WH40K? Don't like video games? Then this is not the movie for you.Because everything-- the story, the characters, the animation-- is exactly the quality that you would expect from a AAA video game cut scene. Exactly that good. And no better. It's a video game story. They're video game characters. And the vast majority of the scenes could have been built and rendered in a modern game engine as easily as they could have in a studio package.Kudos to the creators for doing so much on so little; I know how difficult animation is. Kudos for limiting it to 70 minutes, although another 10 minutes of cuts could have improved it further. And kudos for erring on the side of restraint rather than caricature, although I think a little less restraint would have done UM some good. I think the bang-for-your-buck for the next effort lies in improved outdoor geometry and increased use of physics systems.

For me, as a 40K fan and an avid commander of Space Marines on the tabletop, this was a decent first outing for GW. It could've been better, but for what we got, it could've also been a lot worse.The voice acting is great. I usually don't like it when movies, especially lower-budget ones, cast celebrity actors in place of professional voice actors, but most of the celebrity actors they got were pretty well picked. Terence Stamp and John Hurt are always great, so I can't complain. I haven't viewed much of Sean Pertwee's work, but here he's also pretty good. In fact, this is one movie where I never disconnected the celebrity voices from the characters.The characters themselves weren't very memorable. The Ultramarines (both the Chapter and characters) lack any defining traits to make them stand out, and a Chapter like the Raven Guard or the Space Wolves probably would've been more interesting and/or fun. Also,the Space Marines not nearly as indestructible as they are portrayed in the tabletop game or in the lore. These are the guys who, after having their heart and both lungs stop working, can take off their armor and swallow poison while UNDERWATER and still get back to the fight after a quick dust- off. Here, their armor breaks like glass and a single bolt round to the chest kills them outright. Space Marines should be tougher than this, and that goes for their evil counterparts, too, along with that Daemon Prince. A DAEMON PRINCE SHOULD'VE WIPED THEM OUT, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!The story was... Underwhelming. Dan Abnett's not my favorite Black Library author , but he can still deliver a solid story. The story he gave us here was essentially just a fetch quest with a twist thrown in towards the end, which wouldn't bother me if the characters a bit more memorable. This problem could probably be fixed by a larger budget and a second writer. *cough* Graham McNeille *cough*The animation and character designs are pretty "bleh". The attention to detail with the miniatures and video games makes the movie look like a college student's final project. The animation's not always fluid and the dust storm that's in a good chunk of the movie's fight scenes feels like a weak attempt to hide this from the audience. But, again, the Warhammer 40,000 universe has yet to get the big-budget treatment it deserves.So, is this a good movie? No. Did I enjoy it? Eh, not really. Do I want a sequel? YEEEEESSS. So hop to it, Games Workshop, and this time get a studio to fund and distribute it theatrically. I'm sure Warner Bros or New Line would be breaking your door down.

Three stars and three only shine out of the bottomless abyss of despair that is this movie.1. It was made. Being a fan of the Warhammer universe setting in general I was excited to see this movie finally being made.2. Quality voice talent. They really pulled out the stops when it came to hiring actors, so I have no cause to complain there.3. Dan Abnett's name was attached to it. IF you are a fan of his writing as I am, then I suppose you can count this among the positives, otherwise, I'm sorry that this was your first exposure to his work. In my imagination, they forced him to write the screenplay from within a locked closet without food or water while being harried by rabid weasels.Otherwise, terrible. The exposition of the Warhammer setting is poorly handled, the plot not terribly compelling, the pacing is awful - unless extended scenes of people walking through a hazy landscape is your thing, in which case I expect you would find this to be the apotheosis of cinema.Why are we walking through the desert for 45 minutes? Couldn't the drop ship have brought us closer to our destination, considering that it's a FLAT PLAIN that extends for hundreds of miles? This brings us to the CGI. Ten years on from The Matrix, video effects have become much cheaper, so I can't comprehend why the visual quality of this film is so poor, even setting aside the fact that every character looks identical.I can only imagine that the producers ran over budget on voice acting. There are scenes where the focal depth is so poor it approaches the surreal. Stop to consider for a moment that focal depth needs to be set manually in a CGI film rather than what naturally occurs with a camera.The endlessly shifting dust or fog or whatever that fills every frame of this movie is subject to the same aberrations, sometimes something that appears foreground is suddenly revealed to be backdrop when a character walks in front of it. Sloppy, just sloppy.

Well, I really thought this film was good. I'm not normally into Warhammer 40k, I'm more of the Warhammer fantasy type girl but I still enjoyed this film. It was a bit slow paced at first but the storyline was really well thought out.The cgi in this film wasn't the best, I got the feeling that this film was almost a bit of an experiment to see how people would respond to their movies but it was watchable and pretty good compared to some films. (maybe I am biased because I love Warhammer).I didn't think i would enjoy it but it surprised me and now I am so desperately waiting for the Warhammer fantasy film to be released if they are making one!