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I've literally seen better acting in porn.

The film was awful and I couldn't watch the entire thing, I had yo turn it off mid way. No coherent story. No proper character development. It is garbage.

I don't know why GW or whoever is responsible for these films keeps drawing inspiration from Loyalist space marines. They are boring and one dimensional characters by design. There are so many better things to draw inspiration from that a film could practically write itself. Just copy another successful film trope and paste 40k races in. Alien(s) with gene stealers killing guard on a cramped ship. Predator is a Lictor killing Catachans. Saving private Jenkins - replace nasty Germans with GSC. Lord of the Rings of planet 23827.gdh53 where a misfit group including a single Eldar, a squat, a Guardsmen and 2 astartes (one of which will turn to chaos at the end of the first film) have to work together to destroy something. Guardians of the Galaxy Rogue Traders. Mad max/dark comedy with Ork racers.

Or just serialise Eisenhorn or Gaunts Ghosts. People are accustomed to more geeky media and main characters getting killed with the success of GoT.

It saddens me to say but I think battlefield earth is a better movie.

I watched it once, about eight years or so ago, and then didn't think about it again until I clicked on this thread.

Probably not what the makers had in mind for it.

It's up there with The Room.

At least the scenes are cut together in the right order.

The story was "meh", but what let me down was that the CGI was simply a decade behind the stuff everyone was putting out. There have been better cut-scenes for video games than the Ultramarines movie....cut scenes for Warhammer games. It was as if they went back to 2002 and slapped it all together.

Example (a cut from 'Ultramarines', 2010)



Compare that "quality" to this pre-game trailer for Warhammer: Mark of Chaos from 2006...one of the best Warhammer related CGI things ever done.



The quality of 'Ultramarines' was simply inexcusable. Really, really cut-rate, garbage CGI. It smacked of "lowest bidder".