For every well know comic book movie out their there are going to be a lot more little known or unknown comic book films out their. With the film that i'm about to review for you all today being one that's very unknown as it's based of off a very unknown character and judging by this film I can see why this film isn't that well known and so then join me as I review the film that tries to be cool just really isn't cool in the slightest with the film in question being called simply just "Lady Death: The Movie" enjoy.
The plot of this film is when she is tricked into going to hell by her own father Hope swears revenge on him and will do whatever it takes to free the souls of her loved ones. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty one of the worst parts of the film as the films plot was very weak at est with it at times being very hard to work just what the actual plot of the film is as this films plot just comes and goes whenever it chooses which makes it seem like that this film really doesn't have plot however when the plot is there it is a fairly entertaining and as well as being a really engaging plot in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Christine Auten as Lady Death / Hope , Mike Kleinhenz as Lucifer / Matthias and Andy McAvin as Pagan. Also starring in this film is , Rob Mungle as Cremator , Mike MacRae as Asmodeus and A Large Torture Troll , Chris Patton as Niccolo , Dwight Clark as Father Orbec , Maureen McCullough as Marion , John Swasey as General Ahriman , Torture Guards and A Demon Priest and James Faulkner as General Utuk Xul.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting tat's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not hat but that's also the issue. As this films acting isn't all that good either none of which is the fault of the actors as there only being told what to do and can only be do the best job that they can do with the script that's being given to them and sadly this films script just isn't that good as the script doesn't give the cast alot to work with interms of what their respective characters personalities even are which means that this films cast just can't turn in that good of a performance as this films script just won't allow for it as it really just that bad of a script.
Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Summin Image Pictures Co., LTD.. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this films animation being the highlight of the film as it really is alot better then what it really had any right to be as nobody expects a direct to DVD movie about a very unknown comic book character to have good animation in it and yet that's exactly what this film has and while it's not better then alot of other direct to DVD movies it really is alot better then what it really had any right to be.
For those of you that might not know about this character this film is based of off the comic book character Lady Death who made her debut back in Evil Ernie number one in December 1991. With the character actually still going to do this very day which is truly shocking as the characters original publisher Chaos! Comics went bankrupt whilst this film was in development with the character now having stores published by Coffin Comics the character having been there since 2012 and is still going strong with new releases almost every single year with all of her stories having been written by her original creator Brian Pulido who also came up with the story for this film as well and is pretty much the main creative driving force behind the Lady Death character having written most if not all of her comic book stories.
While I cannot say for sure if this film is true representation of the comic books what I can say is that this film is based of The Reckoning storyline from the comic books. With this film being a very mature story which if that's true to how the character is and how her stories are in the comic books then that would make this film a fairly well done representation of the comic books but if not then it would make this a fairly bad representation of the source material with this film from what I can gather cutting out stuff from The Reckoning storyline but it's hard to say if those omissions would harm the story in any way but as they are in the film they don't harm the story in any way shape or form as the film pretty much has no story to harm in the first place which does also make those omissions seem rather pointless as well.
Just like every single mid 2000's comic book film this one also features a rather lackluster villain with this films villain just being boring. Which really shouldn't be the case at all as this films main villain is Lucifer and as such it should have been really easy to make him a cool villain with a cool scheme and end goal in mind and yet for some strange reason this film doesn't do either of those things as while he does look somewhat cool he has no scheme and no end goal in mind and as such he just comes across as being because of the fact that he's The Devil and that doesn't make him an interesting villain as all it does is make him come across as being a rather flat and boring villain which has the knock on effect of making Lady Death herself seem rather flat and boring as the villain should be just as interesting if not more so then the hero and as such if the villain is rather flat boring and rather uninteresting then it also makes the hero rather flat , boring an uninteresting as well.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and sixteen minuets and twenty three seconds. Which is a bit on the long side form this film as while the film does have alot of story to cover that amount of running time the films story is just so weak that and so thinly drawn out that the film adds alot of scenes that add nothing to the overall plot with those scenes feeling alot more like padding as those are scenes that could be removed from the film and nothing of importance would actually be lost yes it would mean a shorter running time but it would also mean having a much more tighter film that flows alot better which is sadly not the case with the film as it is as the film does jump around the timeline with no warning nor does it let you know how much time has passed inbetween scenes which really does make things a tad bit confusing but I really will admit that this film really does have some truly wonderful pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With the action in this film being really cool to look but at the same time it's not as cool as it perhaps could have or even should have been as the film really doesn't take full advantage of it's setting and as a result of that this films action feels like that they could be taking place in any setting which robs them of being some really cool action which really is a shame as an action film set in hell really does open itself up to a lot of really cool and and really awesome action scenes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this while this film is a pretty much forgotten about comic book movie it's also one that should be seen and talked about especially now when everybody is trying to make a female focused comic book movie in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Lady Death fandom wiki page , Wikipedia and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.