This movie was a waste of my time and I only watched just over 30 minutes of the film before I couldn't watch anymore. I'd never played the original game until 2016 and when I completed it I found out that there was a movie after looking up the game on IMDb funny enough. When I saw the cast of this movie I thought that it would be great (even though I only knew a few of the actors) but after the 30 minutes that I watched I would call it bait just to get you to watch it. The film has no energy what so ever, the characters (especially Nariko) sound like they're bored and tired and it doesn't fit with their body language. The animation was okay, I'll give them that, but I noticed in one scene that Nariko's top which originally covers the left side of her chest was on the right side of her chest and when it changed scenes, her top was back to normal. The animators basically reflected the scene and couldn't be bothered to fix the animation (A.K.A Laziness). This was only the first 30 minutes of this film and it disgusted me, I'm just really happy that it wasn't the original creators of the game that made this movie, I would have been upset if that was the case. I'm sure that if the original creators and all of the original cast of the game made this movie, it would be a thousand if not a million times better.

SPOILER ALLERT: You already know what happens in this movie. First of all, the stilted animation, the barely 3-D faces, with no expression on them let alone movement. The graphics are pixelated in places and background hardly deserves the name. Honestly, primary school children could do better with crayons.But I could forgive that. Yes, I would completely accept the creators limitation in this regard and appreciate the life spent upon this endeavour if the vocals weren't so fake-sounding. The tone, cadence and timbre in all the voices are incredibly jarring. I wish these guys had listened to any English dub anywhere if they could not do this in Japanese, Chinese or Korean with subtitles. You'd think they didn't know what angry or sad people sounded like. To be honest, silence and subtitles would have been a massive improvement.Sadly, what they were actually saying was no improvement. You've never heard a cliché they didn't say. The plot line was devastating but I can live with a girl inheriting a magical sword. What I can't live with is a cliché killing off everyone she knew in her life in 12 seconds except for her one crazy but strangely wise and blood thirsty companion she didn't know was her sister. Six-year-olds have better plots in their fantasies. Ten-year-olds have much more imaginative characters. I'm not a troll okay? I wanted to like this I was on board but 23 minutes and 41 seconds in I just knew that this was it. It wasn't going to get better and anything I can muster up in my imagination about how this thing continues and ends or even how it began would be eminently better than whatever predictable, agonising procession of pixels this Frankenstein could lumber up. I am sorry. My friend if you watch this film, you'll see what I mean but don't. Stop reading this. Go life your life.

I'm not a Playstation fan. But I bought one to play the game that this movie is based on. So seeing this movie was a must for me since Heavenly Sword was so amazing, especially the characters. After preparing a meal, speakers turned up, lights low I started this movie. After a small intro the action started. 10 seconds later I wanted to stop watching because the movie felt REALLY terrible. The editing was such a mess that the movie feels all over the place and confusing. Its like if someone took all the cut scenes out of a game and made a movie out of them. Half the time I was like "Wait, what happened to the end of the last scene?" or "Now whats happenings?!?". The story is barley coherent. The animations aren't all that great and the game itself sadly looks way better then this movie does. It felt like you were watching some low budget movie made on someones computer at home. And the voice overs were terrible too. The original voice actors from the games take up their roles again but everything feels really off when people speak. Sometimes things are not perfectly lined up to match the mouth. Other times it feels like the voice isn't coming from who you are watching, but more of a narrators voice. Only reason I gave this two stars is because I like Nariko and Kai. And their voices. Other then that I really wished I had given up on this movie early on instead of sitting to the end. Many MANY times I found myself wanting to end it. Assuming you watch it and make it to the end.... prepare yourself as the story makes even less sense and leaves you wondering what your doing with your life watching such a terrible movie. I feel bad about this review because I had high hopes for this that it would extend the Heavenly Sword series to new people. All it did was scare off people.

As if copy-pasting the original (and much better) narrative were more difficult than coming up with this insanely offensive crap. The trailers didn't exactly make me expect wonders, but this film is one hell of a blasphemy. Where the game excelled (acting performances, pacing, direction of photography,...), the film falls flat on its face. And where the original had a bit of a room for improvement, but still was quite good (plot, characters, dialogue), the movie seems as though it sabotaged everything just to fall in the line of all those film adaptations that present video game stories as even more idiotic than an average Mr. Bay spectacle. And man, even the usually great Anna Torv and Alfred Molina seem to try their best to make this thing painful/surprisingly amusing to watch. *sigh* Seriously, this is an infinitely better cinematic experience: http://youtu.be/YS7sFIWDvIc (*and* it has a lot of Andy Serkis and an *engaging* Anna Torv in it!)