Wuchak RELEASED IN 2015 and directed by Anne K. Black, "Mythica: The Darkspore" is the second film in the five-film fantasy/adventure series about a limping servant girl with blossoming magical powers named Merek (Melanie Stone), who teams-up with a heroic warrior, Thane (Adam Johnson), a miscreant lothario, Dagen (Jake Stormoen), a priestess, Teela (Nicola Posener), and a hunky elf, Qole (Rocky Myers), for a journey to obtain all the shards of the Darkspore to keep it from the diabolical Szorlok (Matthew Mercer). Kevin Sorbo has a cameo.The story takes place in an adventurous Medieval-like world where sorcery, elves, orcs, dragons and other fantasy creatures are real. If you like The Lord of the Rings, D&D, Warcraft, Conan or Sinbad you'll probably like the Mythica franchise. These movies were partly funded by a Kickstarter campaign with all the movies costing less than $100,000, except the fifth and final one. The first movie, "A Quest for Heroes," cost $94,294 while this sequel cost $81,099. The production quality is incredible for such meager budgets, particularly if you're familiar with micro-budget productions. The Mythica films are basically just as good production-wise as "Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God" (2005), a TV movie that cost a whopping $15 million (for a TV flick, that is)."The Darkspore" is disappointing in comparison to the dynamic first film, in particular the first half where the transition from "A Quest for Heroes" is clumsy and unexciting. Thankfully, things perk up in the second half and make up for the weak first act, especially a fight with a dragon in the desert. In any case, be sure to see "A Quest for Heroes" before viewing this one. THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour 47 minutes. WRITERS: Anne K. Black, Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin. GRADE: B-

Stuart Fisher I was a bit disappointed with Mythica: The Darkspore at first. I thought the beginning didn't make much sense. Caeryn is murdered almost immediately and the party splits up leaving two of them behind at the inn. Marek then has some dialog with Gojun who talks about men and power several times. It was a perfect opportunity for Marek to point out that she wasn't a man but the writers didn't take it. At the very least, Gojun could have acknowledged that Marek was a woman!The party eventually regroup and head off on their travels again but it is slow going. There are one or two redeeming parts later though, and I've given Mythica: The Darkspore a decent score because of that.

Menippos Keep the costume designer and the photographer, fire all others, including the director.Poor - no, I take it back - awful script and dialogues and terrible, terrible directing. There is no real coherence from one scene to the next, no one takes advantage of the actors' strong points, long scenes to fill the time in order to give an excuse for a movie.This could have been so much more.CG were not needed really; we could have used our imagination, with a bit of air acting, and use the money to hire a better director.And the story - oh, the story - what a mess... It really peaks in the end where, disposing of the whole of the point, the heroes mess up their mission, utterly fail, leaving the world to its doom and walk away all smiles in search for another adventure and... warmer climates.Really, now, whoever gave high marks to this film must either be a close friend of someone in the cast or crew or an utter nutter about anything sword-yielding, magic-casting or horse-riding.And... "Hercules" must have been stoned up to his eyeballs.

Ramzi Ramzi (ramzizouaghi) I'm a huge Scy-FI fan. I was super excited to see this one. The movie seemed promising the first few minutes watching , but after that it got all boring and expected to a point. I won't get into much detail not to ruin this for others still waiting to watch this one. I'm just gonna say that the movie didn't offer much whether with some of the comedy scenes or fighting scenes. Opinions differ, but I just didn't feel the movie at all, and I strongly felt like fast forwarding it at some points however I had to keep watching just in case something exciting or interesting might happen so I could at least come out of that boredom sense I was in but unfortunately , nothing captured my attention there. What a Disaster !