Ultramarines: The Movie
Ultramarines: The Movie Is a 70-minute CGI movie about the Ultramarines Chapter. Directed by Martyn Pick and produced by Bob Thompson (The guy who produced the Bionicle movies).
Plot
It is the 41st millennium, a savage and grim dark future when mankind battles for survival in a galaxy riven by bloodshed and destruction. Humanity teeters on the brink of extinction, assailed on all sides by the most grievous enemies - aliens, mutants and traitors. Only the colossal numbers of the Imperial Guard and the indomitable strength of the Space Marines, genetically-enhanced elite warriors of superhuman power and devastating ability, can offer any defence. Of all the ancient and venerable chapters of Space Marines, the Ultramarines are arguably the most powerful, most respected and most fearless. Pure of purpose and loyal to the Emperor, the Ultramarines are regarded as the most driven and strict, the most disciplined and courageous of Space Marine chapters.
Captain Severus, a revered veteran warrior with a considerable reputation, has received an urgent request for assistance from the remote backwater planet Mithron. Mithron has only one site of strategic importance, a shrine defended for countless generations by a full company of Space Marines from the Imperial Fists Chapter. What dreadful fate could have overcome them that they ask for help?
Leaving the bulk of his company on Algol to prosecute the war against the nightmarish Tyranids, Severus sets off for Mithron with only a ten-man squad for support. Ultima Squad is a raw, untrained band of battle brothers, all recently promoted from the ranks of Space Marine Scouts and thirsting for glory. Mithron will be their first taste of action as fully fledged Ultramarines. Severus, with his sergeant Crastor and his apothecary Pythol, knows they’ll need to keep a careful watch on the recruits.
On the tough and unforgiving surface of Mithron, Ultima Squad discovers that a terrible battle has taken place. The shrine has been attacked, and some great evil has been unleashed. As unseen dangers close in around them, the recruits have to mount a tense and deadly insertion to find any surviving Imperial Fists, and the reason behind the distress beacon.
For ambitious new recruits Proteus and Verenor, competitors for their captain’s approval, the reality of the task ahead becomes clear. They want a glorious first taste of combat as fully fledged Space Marines to prove they are worthy of selection. But this mission is a savage fight for survival and, if the Ultramarines fail, events on Mithron will threaten the fate of millions of densely populated Imperial worlds starting with their fortress home of Macragge...
In other words, the Imperial Fists chaplain falls to Chaos, as does his retinue, due to the possession of his artifact, likely tainted by chaos. He then throws in his lot with Chaos Space Marines turns against his Ultrasmurf homo-buddies and tries to destroy the world they're fighting on and perhaps even Maccrage itself. And, of course, the Ultrasmurfs, being the Speshul Snowflakes they are, will win without any problem.
You've just been saved 20 bucks.
Characters
Ultramarines:
- Captain Severus (Terrence Stamp) - Captain of the Ultramarines 2nd company.
- Brother Proteus (Sean Pertwee) - Newly promoted battle brother. Hates Verenor.
- Brother Verenor (Steve Waddington) - A newly promoted battle brother. He is in rivals with Proteus for the approval of Severus.
- Apothecary Pythol (Donald Sumpter) - Some old fart who's friends with Severus.
- Sergeant Crastor, Brother Junor and Brother Remulus (Ben Bishop) - Crastor was, in a way, the redshirt of the movie(Though, more of a "red helmet") because he, along with Lycos,was the first to die.
- Brother Hypax, Brother Maxillius and Brother Decius (Gary Martin) -
- Brother Boreas and Brother Lycos (Christopher Finney) - Hmm, 'Boreas'? Now where have we heard- Oh Emperor... Anyway, Boreas served as the standard bearer until he was easily killed with a single shot during an ambush (Kinda weird considering that Space marines have more endurance to wounds than normal person). Lycos served as the driver for the landspeeder until he got killed, along with Crastor, during an ambush.
Imperial Fists:
- Chaplain Carnak (John Hurt) - Chaplain of the Imperial Fists. He's the one responsible for sending out the distress signal.Helps out the Remaining Ultramarines in battling the Black legion and returns with them to their battle-cruiser. Gets shot in the head by Severus (Actually, the Daemon Prince in Severus' Form).
- Brother Nidon (Johnny Harris) - Carnaks Bodyguard.
- Nailed up in the Front gate Imperial Fists (Themselves) - They're having the time of their lives.
Black Legion
- The Daemon Prince - First attacks Ultima squad in the shrine and plummets to its supposed death along with severus. takes on his form later on in fooling Ultima Squad. Almost succeeds in opening a warp gate, but Proteus goes Hammer-Time and gets banished to the warp.
- Black Legion Legionnaires (Unknown. Possibly played by themselves) - The main enemies. The Majority of them comprise of either raging psychopaths with Boltguns or Raging psychopaths with chainswords,chain-axes and bolt pistols. For some reason, the majority of them are having trouble with their aim (Possibly suffering from the infamous "Stormtrooper Effect").And are taking more casualties than the Ultramarines despite having taken down nearly the entire Imperial Fists 5th company (FUCKING ULTRAMARINE PLOT ARMOR!!!). Though the Fists only went down after taking on 1,000 summoned daemons for over a week, so if anything the Fists were more hardcore anyway.
Misc
- Horridly mutilated and decimated Imperial Guardsmen (Themselves) - Like their Imperial Fists counterparts, they're having a blast with their role.
Things that Rock
- A relatively high-quality Warhammer movie for the first time in
2 decades24 years. Finally. - Dan Abnett (Arguably the greatest of Warhammer Novel writers EVER!!!) writes the story.
- Amazing actors (Except those after John Hurt... ok, maybe Donald Sumpter and Sean Pertwee could be considered an exception)
- Fine animation for the most part.
- Space Marines who don't look like HAIRATICS. (read: Animating hair would have taken time)
- Have we mentioned John Hurt? His awesomeness is so great that we must do so.
Venerate John Hurt! The True Emperor-This is HERESY!While John Hurt is indeed a great actor,to venerate him as the Emprah is to DIE!!! - Chaos Space Marines are in it (Specifically,The Black Legion)
Things that Suck
- Ultrasmurfs
- The Asshats who complain about the animation being bad or the Space Marines looking too old, despite the fact that only one Space Marine looks old. And don't bring up fucking Angelos, mmkay? Whether or not he looks old is subjective, he certainly has quite a few wrinkles, doesn't he? Also the asshats who think they're funny by saying that John Hurt is inferior to Terrance Stamp, the hack that Terrance is compared to Hurt.
- No Space Wolves.
- Where the FUCK is Khârn?
- Released only as a special edition.No regular release.
- Will not be available after Christmas.
- It got delayed. Because of this, it's now causing lots of fans to go batshit crazy and Rage.
- Lore rape: Bolter rounds do not explode, Prometheum is not gel, Power Armours are made of cardboard and the Crozius Arcanum shoots magic beams. The fuck GW, the fuck?
Trivia
- The animation is constantly shifting quality of texture,movements,dynamics,lighting,detail and meshes. Some scenes show high quality designed animation while some were pretty much sloppy, as if they were hurried.