Review of Knights of Badassdom (2014) by Charles B — 19 Sep 2014

One of the most purely unamusing films I have seen in quite a while. One of those 'mindlessly fun' films that leaves you feeling sick, vacant, older and slightly ashamed. The attitude to LARPing is sneeringly condescending, as though devised by derisory frat-boys, the talented comic actors Zahn and Dinklage are wasted on a script free of laughs, Kwanten is hopelessly miscast as a supposed rock-fan couch potato (he still looks like he does three hours of Crossfit to David Guetta every day,) the horror elements are rubbery and amateur without being endearingly campy, and the body-count is unpleasantly high.

It's too nasty to be a comedy, it's not scary enough to be horror, it's too unkind to be a tribute to anything and it contains some of the worst 'movie metal' I have ever heard: guaranteed to make any true believer's ears crawl off his head and down the nearest toilet.

Avoid like the Black Death.