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Even the video clips of the movie sucked.

For all you haters on the movie, you couldn't have expected them to make a million dollar film. They didn't know how it would have been rated by viewers because there has never been a movie like it before except cut scenes from the DoW games. For the really cheap budget they were on i think it was a fantastic movie. And sure the boltguns shredding chaos marines like they were imperial guard not wearing any armour was a bit over the top, but for marine supporters they like chaos being riped apart easy.

1 star, all in all just a really poor movie a waste of my time watching it.
The graphics were ok at least watchable and pretty much what I expected, and the voice acting was very good but that's all the good I have to say.

The plot was virtually none existant, half the film was just Space Marines wandering about! A big thumbs down from me if you've not seen it don't bother.

I liked it, little weak on the story line but not to bad overall

2 and 1/2 Stars because I was so starved for a 40k movie... but they made it about Ultramarines? Yawn'' Could've taken this in a more interesting direction

It was too bad. I mean it was kind of boring but i think it has alot of potential. I didnt like they way everyone walked ya know kinda bouncy. Its alright for what it is I guess.

1 Star... The plot was boring and predictable. The cinematics were ok at best. You look at all of the video game trailers (GW based ones) and they look better than this movie did.... how?

Only thing that was above poor was the voice acting. Not saying it was amazing, but was ok.

Overall... meh

1.5,m such a terrible movie. One minute you've got Chaos Marines surviving boltgun shots to the chest, then you have a Chaplain using Psychic powers...

-Wolf Guard 252

I thought it was poor. The story wasn't great and the graphics were considerably worse than a game cut scene. I can see what they are trying to do with it and hopefully the next one they have will improve.

On a side note the voice acting was stellar.

I felt that it was a decent attempt but that there were SO many things that it fell short on that I couldnt help but be dissapointed. The story desperately needed better research and the graphics really needed to be fleshed out better. Having said that I realized going into it that it wasnt going to be the highest quality movie and my expectations were not unwarranted.

All I can say:
Fluff fail
Voice Actors epic
CGI acceptable
Story meh
Fluff serious fail
Logic fail
Did I mention the fluff epic fail?

2 and half, cause its smerfs, but apart from that the stroy line is rubbish and the fan made movie comoing soon will be far better.

What I wanted, what I actually expected, and what I got are three completely separate and different things.

I wanted essentially space marine porn, I wanted to see big guys in big stompy power armor rendered in every color of the dirt spectrum with loving detail beating the ever-loving gak out monsters.

What I expected was little more than a tired old story used exclusively to hold together B movie action scenes with 'sci-fi' channel budget graphics and a script worthy of cap com.

What I got was an interesting mesh of the two, the stompy power armor fucknuggets were there to be sure but not rendered even close to the level of detail that I thought it deserved. The story was lackluster and only served to tie together the fights which would have been ok if the fighting animations themselves had been done by Relic or THQ... or Blizzard for that matter.

On the whole I was entertained, excited and somehow disappointed all at the same time. A fun thing to watch with friends and talk about over the gaming table, but not substantial enough to justify a re-watch.

Novelty Value Only.

I think it's one of the worst pieces of work ever committed to video. I'll always remember the production assistant's face at Games Day after the preview when a friend and I were asked how it was and we said "pretty rubbish".

The film turned out worse than that, if I had paid for it I would have been livid.

It also annoys me because I see it as another roadblock to a Hollywood 40K movie, which could be so good it would make your eyes bleed. These guys seemed to work pretty hard on proving otherwise.

Hack script.
Hack animation.
Hack acting.

I gave it a 1.
1 hour, 16 minuets of my life wasted!
But that dosen't mean they should stop trying.

i think an Imperial Guard movie that was live action and made by a big producer would do phenomenally better than the animated pile of fecal matter they called "Ultramarines."

I cant believe how many good ratings it has had.. maybe I have a warped perception because I wanted to support the idea and thus spent a fething bomb on the collectors edition...

But yeah, It was god awful. Really bad. Good voice acting, but everything else was appalling, it was boring, made very little sense, and the marines acted like morons the whole way through.

I know this is never going to get read, but I'll put my two sense in for the sake of post whoring.

I gave it 2 1/2 stars.

I came in with slightly lower expectations, but the movie was disappointing. There are more fluff inconsistencies than anything seen before. The voice acting was okay, but the graphics and animation were crap. I've done better in
My basement with free amateur software. The marines didn't look all that realistic either. Most of the scenes were just the squad walking. With bad animation and graphics? I don't think so.

The only way the movie got Those stars was it WAS A MOVIE. ABOUT SPACE MARINES (smurf or not). It's still cool even if the movie, to an outsider, sucks.

Yesterday:

One star, if that. I don't much mind about the graphics, but the lack of plot was dire. I know its a film based on a game, so it's not really going to be profound like Die Grosse Stille, or beautiful like I don't know what, but a lot of guilty-pleasure sword-and-sandals (sword-and-powerarmour?) fun could be had from 40K. The script and plot however, were really bad, and for reasons below, and as you have such a rich background to work with, I will hammer it. I did not pay for it, so no real bones from me.

After a good night's sleep, I will be a little more charitable. I know the budget was small, and although there is no excuse, however small the budget, for a bad script or bad actors (I have seen some wonderful plays acted by people with day-jobs), they did have very good voice acting, the big set pieces were good although it took us ages to wade there, and the trailer (Ultramarine Monks! what is not to like), for what it is worth, was really quite good.

I will raise it to two-and-a-half.

Kudos for trying, I should have liked to see more effort paid to plot, there are some really good amateur writers out there, and the 40K feel was there, I thought the graphics were actually not bad (although the trailer used prosthetics and costume, not CGI, and looked much better, as people could act, and the whole thing felt more '40K) I would love to see a live-action 40k film, bu just a better script and I would have given it three to four out of five - a salutary lesson, I think, another 40K movie from the same people would be great, but please don't neglect the plot! Cliched as it may be, 40K has a heck of a lot of backdrop and just, basically, appealing things - Latin, armour, monks chanting, Inquisition, heavily pseudo-Baroque get ups, Gothic decor, Imperial Guard, Emperor, daemons, hundreds more, it's dripping with rich plot, just waiting to be used so it is inexcusable to have a bad plot. I'm being so harsh because you have so much to work with - look to the Imperial Armour books, for example, for some really good 40K writing.

Davylove21 wrote:
Hack script.
Hack animation.
Hack acting.

Hack Acting? That featured the voice of one of the actors of this generation, John Hurt! Your "Hack Acting" evidently shows how little you understand the difficulty involved when you only have your voice to act with.

I gave the film 3 Stars
i enjoyed the film mainly due to my love for the hobby although there were certainly alot of areas that could have
been improved on. the graphics weren't anything special yet were enough for me.
the plot was a little lacking but hopefully more can be produced in the future and this is just a base block to go from

It was cool, thats all it had going for it.

I never found out why 10 space marines, an apothecary and a captain were on a strike cruiser by themselves with little to no crew besides servitors in the far reaches of space. It also made it sounded like it was their first time into battle, weren't they scouts before! And finally, why did they leave the speeder, it could have been useful. It had a freakin' multi melta on it!!!!

to conclude, its one of those meh movies you just love to watch

Fluff aside, It deserves atleast 3 stars. You have no idea how hard it is to coordinate a team to make a movie that remotely looks good. Better graphics come with more money, and if a studio isn't making it, they can't afford top notch Dawn of War styled cinematics with a team of 100+ people from relic.

I'd encourage more 40k movies! They are only going to get better and better =)

I doubt anyone that ranked it as 0/1 has no idea how difficult it is to do fully animated scenes, its not like an actor walks across the stage.

I am purposely not voting on it for two reasons:


First off, the old axiom: if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right comes to mind. This was not done right. Not by a long shot.

Second, and perhaps more importantly, there is zero reason to rate a movie that quite frankly was sunk due to the infighting by those who created it: http://www.iptrademarkattorney.com/2011/06/copyright-ultramarines-warhammer-40000-boardgame-movie-lawsuit-sues-license-ultramarines.html

It's a dead subject. Codex Pictures doesn't exist anymore and the other people involved in this have moved on.

The one option I would vote for is to pull this poll down.

I gave it a 3 also, thinking it was out of 5.

The voice acting was probably the strongest point, the animation wasn't great but not terrible and the deviations from fluff were kind of annoying.

On the whole though not a terrible movie but could have been executed a lot better.

It gets an A for effort. The Voice acting was top notch. The animation was good enough to tell the story, some of the faces looked really bad though so I'm glad most of the time they were covered by helmets. It was too dark in the Citadel to really get a feel for the place but the exterior was nice as well as the Battle Barge, a lot of nice touches there, except for where were all the serfs and servitors? I saw like 3 the whole time and these ships are supposedly teaming with massive crews of chapter serfs and servitors.

The story was only bare bones, there was no meat to it so it wasn't satisfying in that sense.

The Imperial Fists had a presence so that was cool. They got pawned, so not so cool, but John Hurt was one of them so that is double cool, but he then got pawned so double uncool but it was to Terrance "Kneel before Zod" Stamp so that equaled cool.

Overall I enjoyed watching it the one time but it's not likely I'll watch it again.

Couldn't agree with you more Dalsiandon.

Although my one reflection on the movie as a whole is that I actually wish they had flipped the movie entirely.

We were told the reason we see so few marines is that the rest are off fighting in wars against the tyranids.

I'd have preferred to have seen the marines fighting the nids, rather than 10 marines fighting a somewhat mediocre daemon prince.

If you are going to pick Ultramarines as your subject for a movie, and briefly mentioned the wars they are most famous for, instead of showing them, I feel you've missed something.

less than 1 because thery are only fighting 20minutes out of a 90minute movie most of the time they are talking and climbing....if your going to make a Movie espically about 40K its got to have nothing short of 2/3rds combat/battles and scenes inbetween to explain what happened and whats going on next

 Commissar41.0 wrote:
less than 1 because thery are only fighting 20minutes out of a 90minute movie most of the time they are talking and climbing....if your going to make a Movie espically about 40K its got to have nothing short of 2/3rds combat/battles and scenes inbetween to explain what happened and whats going on next

It was actually only 78 minutes.

A universe where there is only war, A movie with mostly walking and little fighting about this universe... Seem okay to you? I won't fault the graphics (after all low budget) or over all story line, voice acting better than expected. Wanted WAY more action and isn't that chaos legion worshipers of khorne? If so why would the be sneaking around instead of just charging like most of Khorne worshipers?