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Great Film overall

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

One thing about TALES OF AN ANCIENT EMPIRE it can now be placed alongside John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS as one of the films with the longest pre-credit sequences that stretches for about 12 minutes long. When it does get started it shows a lot of potential in terms of plot and the cast all give competent performances all around. The look of the film isn't bad in fact but it's major downfall is that it has a terrible execution especially during the third act.The first half of the film is watchable but once it passes the hour mark it's almost like the story was rushed just to get to the end. The whole plot from there became incredibly confusing and felt like the scriptwriter Cynthia Curnan just wanted to get it done as if she got tired of working on it.The one thing that could've helped this film be more entertaining would've been to give Olivier Gruner and Sasha Mitchell's characters both a much bigger role in this film. They only make brief appearances but in that short time their characters actually seemed likable and both had great on screen chemistry. The film would've been a whole lot better if it was written as a vehicle for them.Overall, It's a potentially good concept undone by a bad execution.

Congratulations to the director...you made the worst movie of all time. I've never commented on a movie here but couldn't resist after watching this debacle. The effects, acting, and storyline are worse then a junior high theater production. I'm not sure but at times I think the cameraman might have been having a seizure. The storyline has so many plot holes it's like a sieve and what plot there is is so disjointed that you can't tell what's going on or what is supposed to be taking place. Most of the movie makes very little sense and what does is just pointless. I can't say enough bad about this movie. I mean for Christs sake I've seen better vampire fangs in a grocery story Halloween kit then what they used in this "movie"!

This is the first movie I have reviewed here, and I do so as a response to those who are praising this movie.I don't know how anyone can honestly praise this movie, it is a shear mess. Editing and pacing were terrible, production quality below most TV episodes. I'm sure the actors did the best they could with what they had but what they had wasn't much. This movie is in no way near as enjoyable as "The Sword and the Sorcerer", it is in no way nearly as coherent. This movie made little sense, even with the ham-fisted exposition. The trailer for this movie was better than the movie!Maybe this mess could be salvaged by throwing it into the category of "so bad it's good", and that's a big maybe.There are only two suggestions I have for watching this movie: either watch it inebriated or, simplest of all, not at all.

Would give it higher f that were possible. Got DVD as a gift and have to say its far superior to Clash of the Titans or Prince of Persia, even better than the higher budgeted Solomon Kane.What Ancient Empire had going for is that its a very unpredictable plot and story line where it starts as a story about a sorceress demon taking over a kingdom with vampires and then we understand that the vampire/sorcerer attack is merely a catalyst for characters to learn who they are and the rallying to defeat the sorceress (an superb Whitney Able), really is about a dysfunctional coming together to make peace with being abandoned by a mercenary warrior who fathered a lot kids as he adventured.The back story is deep and it takes a while to assimilate it.Kevin Sorbo gives a strong performance as hustling Aedan. Actually all the performances are at worst interesting. Melissa Ordway and Victoria Maurette really stand out as half sisters on opposite sides and Jessica Delgado as a slave girl turn vampire lackey.The pace overall was good though a bit fast in the beginning. You have to get use to the pace.The photography was lush and striking at times, though the DVD picture seemed to be blown up which caused scenes to be soft and overexposed. Music was excellent and captured the tone.The movie is more a family drama than action and magic. That only really bad moment is at the end where the film ends abruptly and announces a coming sequel called Red Moon, where I guess, all the story lines climax.This film was a wonderful surprise and I can't wait for the sequel and to watch this again. The scene with the tongue is memorable!