Warchief

 Movie time with this 2024 UK made fantasy movie!

 

Now, this is the kind of low budget barely B-movie level movies that seem to be made by a group of friends and their LARP community, and I like those, they radiate a certain love and pureness for the material.

 

The movie opens with a raid on a village by Orcs, whom we don't get to see by the way.  A trio of warriors, consisting of Orion, Griff and Arlo, accompany a mysterious cowled man called the Messenger, with a message for the king's ears only.  It doesn't take long though before they run into trouble as they stumble upon a group of plague victims, resulting in the death of Arlo.

 

When they hear the Orc warchief call to his soldiers, they try and make haste.  During their flight, we often look back at Orion's early life, from a little village boy to becoming a Guardian, who are a caste of warriors tasked with safely bringing their charge to their destination, no questions asked.

 

But the Orcs catch on to them, vastly outnumbering them as they learn the Messenger wants to double-cross the humans.  In the ensuing battle, Griff gets to explore on the spot some of her nascent magic abilities and manages to kill the Messenger, while Orion is brutally decapitated by the Orc Warchief, who is an actual fighter and not a barely trained farmhand who never been into the world.

 

The mission as a result becomes a total failure, and the Orcs start their war on the human kingdoms, as we see another village being burned to the ground as the films comes to an end.

 

So yes, an open and not-so-happy ending, which I thought was actually a nice twist, instead of the guy that paid for all of it saving the day as often happens in these types of movies.  Will it ever get a sequel to see how the war plays out?  Doubtfull to be honest.

 

But I would watch it though!