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Old 28th January 2015, 07:15 PM
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Dark Relic (2010) is a SyFy channel horror tinged sword and sorcery piece.

The storyline has good potential, a tale of Crusader knights struggling to take a piece of the true cross to Rome and battling dark forces - but it is rather hit and miss, there are some good set pieces including one with possessed monks in a remote monastery, but it never flows and there is a really stupid addition of a young woman who spends most of the film espousing her modern atheist views, which are utterly anachronistic for the period and just seem stupid.

The director (probably a pseudonym) Lorezno Sena does a good job and the film looks magnificent, sadly the CGI effects are a decade out of date and used too often in the silly climax. James Frain is rather too good in this, looks like a thespian in a school play opposite most of the cast.

Not really worth the trouble, but do check out some great pictures in my Dark Relic review.
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