jlroodt
This film must rank as one of the worst films of all time in any category. The story builds no suspense, defies logic and insults the viewer's intelligence.Acting is very one-dimensional, but then again you can't blame the poor actors, as I am sure they would be capable of more if they had proper direction.The leprechaun itself looks like a kind of zombie crossed with a gorilla, with one singular growling sound and a range of motions limited two seemingly wobbling left to right on the spot.To top off everything, the cinematography and lighting is absolutely cringe-worthily bad. There are so many instances of poor lighting and excruciatingly poor lens and setup choices that it becomes distracting to the movie itself.Stay away or watch it to learn how not to.
ConsistentlyFalconer
Leprechaun: OriginsTwo young American couples played by Canadians are backpacking through the Irish countryside, stumble upon an American Werewolf in London rip-off, and are left at the mercy of some bad camera work and some sort of half-arsed rotoscoping.This is a bad film. I knew I was in for a stinker when the production company logo came on screen: WWE Studios. Yep. The "wrestling" people. So how bad is it? Well obviously you've bad acting, a cheesy script, very approximate Irish accents, two-dimensional characters, glaring factual errors, crap special effects, no sense of threat, over-use of jump scares and Lewton buses
but I think the best way of summing up how just how crap Leprechaun: Origins is, is the fact that people are on IMDb defending the honour of the original Leprechaun (1993) film!That's all you need to know, really. It's so poor, people are calling the original a "classic" by comparison.Avoid.yetanotherfilmreviewblog.tumblr.com
gavin6942
Two young couples backpacking through Ireland discover that one of Ireland's most famous legends (Dylan Postl) is a terrifying reality.Someone said this movie causes cancer. Now, that may be an exaggeration, but you know... as bad as the "Leprechaun" series is, this may be the new worst. Which is really saying something after the "In the Hood" entries.Here, with Warwick Davis missing, we get the the little bit of dark humor that was the series' saving grace removed. Why do we want a monstrous leprechaun rather than the silly one we have grown used to? Such a mistake.
Diane Ruth
Director Zach Lipovsky has done some extraordinary work with this essential film in the Leprechaun Canon. Harris Wilkinson's brilliant screenplay adds a great deal of vital background information, explains unexplained motivations from previous cinematic entries, and ties up some troubling loose ends. Beautifully filmed and with a dark atmosphere of overwhelming fear and dread, this is the epitome of motion picture horror. The Leprechaun franchise has never been better served by any other effort since the original Leprechaun masterpiece of years ago. In honoring those origins while offering a bit of a fresh artistic vision to his film, Lipovsky has managed to not only pay tribute to what amounts to a cinema legend but even breathe new life into the mythology. No one who has followed the Leprechaun saga and even students of the series should be more than pleased with what Leprechaun: Origins achieves.
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