Having enjoyed the computer games and artwork of Warhammer 40,000 I was very curious about the new film. I always have mixed feelings when watching game adaptations because in my experience they often turn out to be awful, unfaithful to the game or both. Compared to the likes of Dungeons & Dragons (2000), Doom or Wing Commander I would say this one does all right - but also no more than that.Visually, I think they have done a great job at capturing the dark, grim and gritty Warhammer 40k universe. The music with its military drums and religious choir pieces supports this very well. The voice cast is impressive although the plot and its characters don't give the actors much room in terms of the emotions they can work with. I did notice that the production didn't seem to have spent much time on the characters' facial animations as if they knew that. From the trailer I saw it seemed there would be non-stop action but as it turned out the movie was often very quiet and slow. And this is, I believe, the major weakness of the film: there's not enough action and there is too little characterisation going on to fill the rest. The tone, mimics and dialogues feel flat and it's hard to connect with any of the characters - even to tell them apart sometimes. Ultimately, I guess your average fierce, grim, zealous space marine does not make for an interesting character: he will rush into combat, die horribly, be corrupted by daemons or survive to do the same thing over.On the whole the plot is linear and without any surprises. In fact, the whole film seems much like a rendering of a Dawn of War 2 mission. So, I'd say if this is what you're looking for you'll be fine. It's an evening of dark, gritty entertainment. But I'd don't think it's of much interest to anybody not already a fan of the Warhammer 40k universe of narrative.

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.

I am not a Warhammer 40k fan but I always thought it was a cool universe and wanted to know more about it. So this movie looked like a great way of getting to know more about Warhammer 40k without having to paint any miniature figures or roll any dice.The positives: I thought the story was good and the movie was very atmospheric. The voiceovers were also good.The bad: The visuals were just poor. Even when played on a high quality 1080p upscaling DVD player, the movie looks muddy, washed-out and dated. The animation is very poor in places and the movie looks like a cutscene from an average, 10-year old PS2 game.Overall I enjoyed watching the movie but the poor visuals really subtracted from the experience.

plot holes the movies have got plot holes the size of a space hulk first Astartes are immortal soldiers whose purpose in live is to serve the emperor whenever where ever however they have no other live and they cant turn the job down ,they fight when all others had failed they dive into the maelstrom of battle killing aliens mutants and heretics alike they cleanse whole worlds in a company no bigger than about 200 man in most cases when they were human they were fearsome warriors who are the best in there death-worlds and show will,power and potential behind that of a normal man then they most pass initial test of some sort -like fighting to death - and probably they almost die that is when the SM appear get the aspirates and put them through hell were their hearts and will and strength will be tested a hundred times at last the get there gene-seed which is a test of some sort for it can kill them or change them into mindless beast and if they survived all that stuff then they become scouts where they will fight for decade or so before receive the honor and get there power armor and that is just the beginning for they will fight for thousand of years after that so when you compare the behaviour of the Space Marines in this movies to the real version you get the following -they wont disobey orders and when their captain tell them to cover fire they will and wont move an inch -they wont die that easily of curse for they have their power armor which will inject drugs to reduce the pain dramatically also they have a second heart so yeah if the movies was made wright they would not die with a single bolt -what in the warp can kill a full company of the imperial fists ? don't tell me chaos daemons because a number of things first the imperial fists are a first founding not only that they are specialist in siege warfare not only that but they are the guys that defended the imperial palace on Terra during the Hourus heresy against a never ending tie of chaos filth and that should give you a lot of exp in defending a place + they had only one fort to protect and that is a peace of cake for them i mean trying to defend a city or world is pretty tough,but when you have 100 battle brother + probably a company commander and a librarian so again what could kill them ? also is the emperor that stupid to give the imperial fists a book that is actually a warp gate ? and if you were going to kill a daemon and you were in the armory wont you pickup perhaps a heavy Bolter and maybe a lascannon or something heavy quick question :if a an imperial general -Zyvan for instance- had a couple of psykers and deployed them on star ports -cc Traitor's Hand- wont Macragge have any ? that is just the w40k plot holes *now the common sense plot holes the sound was awful the movies had not shown us the w40k world for all we saw was just a big star ship and nothing more the the CGI simply sucked to make a long story short the movies sucks if you were a w40k fan if not then please don't think wrong about the w40k for its way better than shown of them movie