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I just saw it it was ok I guess. It was fun to see 40K in movie form and geek out a bit. The Power Armour and Bolters were Impressive however the actual movement animation wasn't that great. They looked clunky and akward.
The story seemed like a beginners introduction to 40K which is fine I guess.
It seems like they decided "What's the most boring place we can have a war?" A dusty desert. I understand the whole thing was on a tight budget so I can forgive a lot. 3/5 stars.

The walking scenes arent meant to be padding, from what I can tell - theyre supposed to raise the tension levels, as you try to imagine going into your first combat zone as full battle brothers, facing a force which has killed a huge number of other marines (seriously, 100 marines? really?) and with all the expectation that brings. I can see why they did it, but because of how lacking their physics model was it just didnt feel right.

As for the poster saying Flamers shouldnt do anything to SM armour - uh, no, flamers WILL kill space marines.

I thought it was ok. It wasn't PERFECT, but then again what is?
I found that some of the dialogue at places was a bit clunky. Overall the scripting for this was pretty good, but there were parts of the movie where I found myself mentally cringing (or maybe it was because I was watching this with my dad ). Not a bad job for a first try, though! I hope Codex pictures can release more 40k movies on a bigger budget in the near future.
7.5/10

Yeah, it'd be nice to see what they could do with a budget that was even 25% larger. They had a very solid voice cast, and some of the CGI effects were pretty good (the smoke looked like smoke and the flames looked like flames, good light sourcing) but overall it was a little weak, particularly the walking/running cycles which we got to see so much of.

The 'speeder was darn awesome though. hoping to see some IG in the sequel just to give a sense of scale to the Astartes

It was ok. Could have been better as far as the enemies were, I mean just a large pack of Chaos marines charging really adds no character to a villain you can potentially grow to love/hate/love to hate. No manipulative sorcerers, no scheming chaos lords, just some dudes from black legion who get plastered charging up at the Ultras for a good 5mins. Throw some benny hill music in that sequence and you have comedy gold.

Movie just flatout was poo. This is 2011, that was like 90's.

Beast Wars probably holds more weight than this movie.

As someone who's been watching Beast Wars on DVD recently ('Code of Hero' being the next episode, wo!) I'll say that the writing n BW is definitely better so far, but the CGI of Ultramarine is leaps and bounds better than what Mainframe was putting out in 1996/97

I'm sorry but if you can't get fire to look like fire and smoke to look like smoke you fail at animation lol. The animation in beast wars is better than in Ultramarines. I was saying the same exact thing lolol.