Credit THE LORDS OF MAGICK with this much: an unheralded low-budget fantasy, released directly to home video, it's just as entertaining (if not more so) than recent overproduced fairy stories (like KRULL) whose failure at the box office have left the sword-and-sorcery genre in a comatose
state. Most movie fantasies suffer from what could be called "Dragon Burnout Syndrome," a numbing familiarity with stock characters and plots. No matter how lavish the sets, how incendiary the special effects, or how flamboyant the performances, one unicorn is very much like another. THE LORDS OF
MAGICK at least manages a few original touches. Ulric (Mark Gauthier) and Michael (Jar...
Released:
1990
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
98 mins