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I gave it 2 stars, it was amazing but did do better than I expected with the sounds and voice acting. I knew the graphics wheren't going to be spectacular. The fluff issues where to be excpeted but the plot was so sub-par it made me sad. I knew what was happening from almost the first moment they hit the planet. But I hope they keep working at it, because it hadd glimmers of something awesome.

Also the guy yelling WAAAGH in the special features plays at my FLGS

Felt like the writers read the Marines overview on the GW site, read up on wiki, wrote like tards, and botched a bad plan.

2 stars because it was ok. Was not as bad as i expected; and it could easily have been worse.

I got my copy of the movie for Christmas. My friend bought me the "Special Edition" and it came with a comic book and a 'making of" DVD. I think the movie was good; coming from someone new to the game. The dude in white was kind of limp wristed at the start and so I could see the Captain being like "Hey Proteus; I heard you like stabbing and killing and you are gung ho... You be leader brah."

I also liked the twist at the end with the Captain and all that. I think when Proteus said "How do you recognize the taint of chaos." It solidified why he was leader. He could tell something was up when the others couldn't.

I gave it five stars. It was fun, exciting, and I liked seeing some minis on the "big tv screen". I don't understand all these haters getting their panties in a knot over an Ultramarines movie. I would have spent more time praising the concept and asking for more and better films with better budgets. But in a market like this; If I were funding movies and I saw a million nerds scoff at anything being made; then yea... I wouldn't make more movies any more and let them wallow in their plastic minis with no flavor or characters. Not necessarily on this forum but on others I saw a lot of people raging and complaining and I gotta say- those people need to shut up and rethink what they are saying.

"Hey guys, I know you spent thousands on this movie and you worked hard on it. I appreciate it but you think NEXT time we could see X or have a battle between X and Y. It would be super cool and I would love to see you guys make some of my thoughts come to life. Great job and I can't wait for the next one!"

That's all I am saying.

5 Stars for Effort
5 Stars for Fun
5 Stars for the fact my wife watched it with me and said "Kill the Heretics" after seeing that dude chisel on his ammo
5 Stars for making me want to play an Ultramarines or Sisters of Battle Army.

If you gave it less than 4 stars I gotta say ---

SilverStar wrote:If you gave it less than 4 stars I gotta say ---

the people giving it less stars are getting on the movie for its inaccuracy to fluff, not for the attempt. (and the guy in white is called an apothecary)
to reiterate: the reason a lot of us are giving it poor ratings is because the fluff is so innacurate its like saying the US had Apache helicopters in WW2


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and were not scoffing at the fact that the movie was made, were (at least i am) are just upset that the writers couldnt get minor details right, spend the extra week or so researching the already written material before making a movie.

I thought the Marines had only really seen fighting on Algol, which they saw barely any of. They were made full battle brothers out of necessity - the whole chapter was engaged fighting 'Nids, and couldn't ignore a distress call from the Fists.

Speaking of which, the number of dead Imperial Fists looked like it numbered waaaaaaaaay more then a company... it looked like the whole f'ing chapter.

Honestly I liked the film, 3 stars. The graphics and animation I got over pretty quickly, the voicework was decent, but the pace was kinda meh. I wanted to see more firefights. Also,

CajunMan550 wrote:Gave it a 3 not paying attention thought it was out of 5. It was all right...... But the whole Crosius thing the squad raping so hard and the complete lack of fluff did hurt the movie. Plus formentioned points...

Spoiler:

BTW the squad were noobs cuz if you read the back story the rest of the chapter is getting raped by tyranids and this is all they can afford which still doesn't make up for the ridicoulousness of some stuff that happens but still, Also WTF with them raping the CSMs so hard those are 10000 year old soilders and the vets of 1000 wars and 1 shot kills them without the SMs blinking.

I keep hearing about this Ultramarines movie, but I haven't seen hide nor hair from it. Did they only release it in th UK? Where can I get ahold of this?

I gave it 1.5 stars.

The fairly mediocre graphics didn't bother me, in fact in some places they were genuinely good to look at (particularly the stained glass). Elsewhere it wasn't really the budget limitations that hurt the images, it was the flat colour scheme that made it all so dull to look at. The biggest problem is that ultimately, it was a dull, predictable story with mediocre action scenes.

I mean, was anyone really that surprised when the big bad turned out to be exactly who the big bad always turns out to be in these kinds of stories? It really did feel like every second 40K story I'd ever read.

Was anyone really that excited when the chaos marines rans blindly forward, while the Ultramarines stood there firing vaguely into the distance? You need to make these two groups interact, put them into a real space with real geography, tell the story of an engagement. With 40K you've got the advantage of having the 'rules' of the fight already written, and a horde of fans who'd squee with delight at seeing those rules followed on the big screen. Make it an interesting encounter and we'd eat it up. Instead we got various action movie cliches, told poorly.

Budget doesn't excuse a lack of imagination.

It was so terribel I almost trew up after seeing it. But they do deserve a pat on the back for making a okay movie to kill time with if notting else.

I've given it three stars. Yeah we all know it could've been animated better - as many have pointed out, the plot wasn't the most inspiring and was a little predictable (even despite it being penned by the great one - Dan Abnett - my literary hero) but this is reletively new stuff for GW and I think they probably wanted to appeal to a wider audience. Hopefully it will lead to bigger and better things if it has proved popular enough, and we'll see further films of better quality. Overall a good first effort. My only real gripe about it was the price (£27 if I recall) and I do hate 'special presentation' packs where it all comes in a tin - with a making of DVD - with a book - in a fancy box - in a sleeve. Just gimme the disc in a plastic box and charge me about £12 (or whatever DVD's sell for new these days - yes I know I'm out out of touch with these things - but I only ever normally go for the 3 for £10 selection).

Whats an Ultra Marine !? :p

Necroagogo wrote:I gave it 3. Exceeded expectations and it's nice to have confirmed that the Emperor's finest are British!

Heresy!! Everyone knows someone as badass as a space marine is American. Just kidding. I gave it three stars, because almost anything related to warhammer 40k is able to hold my interest no matter how horrible. In the case of the movie, it was actually better than I expected, so I quite enjoyed it. I've watched it probably 10-12 times now.

I gave it two, but now I'm thinking perhaps it was worthy of 2.5. It's not a very good movie, but I expected it to be mediocre at best. It did not disappoint in that respect. Heck, I might even watch it more than once.

Have not seen the movie. Is it any good, and can you order on Netflix?

Isn't still a rumor? j/k

I gave it 1.5 stars.
The animation and so on didn't bug me really, but the plot and direction was poor. The battle scenes were very uninspiring, and the plotting was tedious and overly drawn out. I'd have prefered an hour of entertaining film to 80 minutes of boredom.

Gave it 3. I thought the animation was fine until they took off their helmets. Some parts were hard to see but I watched it on YouTube and I figured that was just that video not the movie itself. Overall I saw the ending coming about halfway into it.

I Got up and left a quarter way through the movie. Waste of 12.50 if you ask me :(

I thought it was okay. the story/plotline was sketchy at times but I didn't expect codex pictures to get it perfect
the cgi could have been better, I've seen better quality in video games and at times the animation was sketchy too. In the beginning sequence I thought the animation was supurb, then as soon as they landed on the planet I thought the animation could have been better

I gave it a 3

I got the movie via the hd digital download for £5 when i watched it i had low expectations and the beginning followed the classic "new recruits, first mission, gets way over their heads" but i was thourghly surprised at the great twist at the end i found that the movie gradually got better at end.

sure the animation wasn't brilliant, the fluff was scetchy and loads of other negetives. but if you just sit back and just watch it, it's a really great movie not brilliant but still it exceeded my expectations

Gave it 1 1/2 stars.
Saw a screenshot in white dwarf ages before release and I thought; "This looks a bit rubbish but it'll look pretty cool when they've finished the visuals". It turned out to be the finished visuals. Meh. The marines feet don't seem to be touching the ground in most scenes.
Voice acting, sound effects and music were excellent but was disappointed by the lack of plot.
Comic book that came free with DVD was pretty nice though.

A strong Three and a half. Could have had more action as the movie was just kinda sluggish then when things get going, the movies over!

Id definitely watch more movies if they are made but this just seemed to be lacking a tad. Dont get me wrong, i did enjoy the show, but they probably could have done more.

They send one tactical squad in Ultramarine? This seems slightly more believable than the three single marines that were sent to stop the waaagh in the game Space Marine.

Is it that the writers handling the IP don't understand 40k, or that they think each Ultramarine is a blue-armoured crack-shot messiah?

Next SM codex will be called "Ultramarine" and give you the option to take 1 blue space marine with a bolter. It's competitive up to 2000 points.

The plot was very predictable, the fluff was abused by half the stuff, but the graphics were alright and the fight sequences were very cool, if not to the fluff of how good a space marine would be against that certain opponent they were facing. And on the 'special features' in the armoury, i'm fairly sure it says that space marine armour is made of titanium or something... why? just why? 2 and a half, at a push.

I have not seen it and don't feel the need to.

It reminded me of watching Reboot as a kid. Then it reminded me of the Roughnecks starship troopers tv show and then i wished I was watching the starship troopers tv from that point on. It might have been better with no-name actors who just needed something on their resumes, then they could have used the money they paid to the b+ list actors on things like better dialogue or maybe some more protagonists. The only thing I really couldn't stand was the old wrinkly apothecary I thought spacemarines didn't really age so much as they just turned into scar tissue.

I really didnt mind the movie, the CGI was good (especially in fight scenes), the voice acting was good and in my opinion, the fluff was good, il just point out afew common misconceptions: the apoc and captain on a stike cruiser with one tactical squad: could have been a master of recruits and a recently excelling recruit unis that are just going into battle as ''true'' ultramarines (a tactical squad), and imo i dont think it would be rare for an apothacary to tag along with a new squad, especially if they were away from any chapter support, also i also think it was obviously a flash forward at the end. on the other hand the movie dosnt exactly make these points (if i am correct) clear enough, i mean, dan abnett scripted this (correct me if im wrong) and he dont usualy make mistakes like that. one thing that does keep bugging me thogh is that if they are a tac squad, surely they should of been in a devestator and assault squad first.

For me it varies, if the Ultramarines fanbois have ticked me off, then it's awesome and totally canon.

If not, then I think of it as a parody (which is my basic thought of course).

I was just sad at the comparison they dispayed between obviously how good they depicted the Ultramarines over the Imperial Fists, but everything else i liked, just hope to see better quality in the future for graphics.

Lets see, scale on a 0-4 scale with 2 being average?

I will say 2.5 ish as in slightly above average. I was a little disappointed but I went in with low expectations and got a little more than what I expected. I would have liked more but overall I enjoyed it and im glad i watched it however I wont being buying it.