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The Chosen One: The Legend of the Raven

The Chosen One: The Legend of the Raven

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: BEST MOVIE EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Review: As a movie destined for 'USA Up All Night' (without any need to edit it for television even),'Legend of the Raven' is dead average. As a movie from the people who brought us 'Sgt. Kabuki Man, NYPD' and the 'Toxic Avenger' flicks, it's a huge dissapointment.

'The Chosen-Legend of the Raven' is the story of a young woman [Carmen Electra] who is chosen by birthright and circumstance to take up her family mantle (represented by a necklace with mystical powers) to become the Raven fight against an Evil that threatens to swallow the world. The film depicts her transformation and her first battle against said evil, manifested in the Wolf [Shauna Sand].

Nice concept, exceedingly bad execution. The script is very nearly devoid of focus, the acting is almost universally bad (Shauna Sand shows some glimmers of talent, or maybe just carries herself with natural intensity... but this is offset by Carmen Electra's thoroughly wooden and amateurish performance), and the fight scenes are as lame as any ever committed to film. There's not even anything remarkable about the camera work or costuming, and there's no humour to speak of. To top it off, the Raven's enemies seem more pathetic than truly threatening.

The only thing I can think of to recommend this film is that it *did* manage to hold my attention. Unlike many other poorly made films the creators here at least had a sense of pacing.

My advice? Pass on this one unless you're the world's biggest Carmen Electra or Shauna Sand fan. If you're looking for a film with woman superheroes, get 'The Heroic Trio' or its sequel 'The Exceutioners.' (The latter is more in line with the tone of 'Legend of the Raven, but is a vastly superior flick.)

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Average late-night cable fare
Review: As a movie destined for 'USA Up All Night' (without any need to edit it for television even),'Legend of the Raven' is dead average. As a movie from the people who brought us 'Sgt. Kabuki Man, NYPD' and the 'Toxic Avenger' flicks, it's a huge dissapointment.

'The Chosen-Legend of the Raven' is the story of a young woman [Carmen Electra] who is chosen by birthright and circumstance to take up her family mantle (represented by a necklace with mystical powers) to become the Raven fight against an Evil that threatens to swallow the world. The film depicts her transformation and her first battle against said evil, manifested in the Wolf [Shauna Sand].

Nice concept, exceedingly bad execution. The script is very nearly devoid of focus, the acting is almost universally bad (Shauna Sand shows some glimmers of talent, or maybe just carries herself with natural intensity... but this is offset by Carmen Electra's thoroughly wooden and amateurish performance), and the fight scenes are as lame as any ever committed to film. There's not even anything remarkable about the camera work or costuming, and there's no humour to speak of. To top it off, the Raven's enemies seem more pathetic than truly threatening.

The only thing I can think of to recommend this film is that it *did* manage to hold my attention. Unlike many other poorly made films the creators here at least had a sense of pacing.

My advice? Pass on this one unless you're the world's biggest Carmen Electra or Shauna Sand fan. If you're looking for a film with woman superheroes, get 'The Heroic Trio' or its sequel 'The Exceutioners.' (The latter is more in line with the tone of 'Legend of the Raven, but is a vastly superior flick.)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Don't waste your time and money.
Review: Even as beautiful and sexy as Carmen Electra is she can't save this dud. They don't show her enough or enough of her to make it worth watching.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Only thing good was carmen.
Review: First they have a cheesey story of a girl coming home to her sister's funeral and finding out that she is the new raven or something then she doesnt want to be a raven and she has sex with some guy who we dont even know and another guy gets mad and finally carmen decides to become the raven and wears a corney outfit and kicks some butt.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This is not a movie
Review: Honestly, I rented this hoping to have some good material to watch while I was playing with myself. I was thoroughly disappointed. Most MTV videos have better plot and acting. But nobody rents this sort of movie even for the cheese value; final analysis--Carmen Electra is nicely round, but she's horribly photographed and blurry.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Eat my shorts
Review: I cant believe some of the reviews to this movie. I thought this movie totally rocked. Like for instance where carmen pours a jug of milk down herself its so hot. To give this movie such a harsh review leaves me wondering what the hells wrong with you.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Eat my shorts
Review: I cant believe some of the reviews to this movie. I thought this movie totally rocked. Like for instance where carmen pours a jug of milk down herself its so hot. To give this movie such a harsh review leaves me wondering what the hells wrong with you.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: I was really disappointed
Review: I was really psyched to see this movie. I was hoping to see a Carmen Electra sex fest. Boy was I let down. There is only one scene where Carmen was in action, and that wasn't even any good. The scene was like a music video with a bunch of rapid cuts and closeups. I don't know if it's me, but i like a lot of wide shots with very little cuts. The reason I don't say this movie deserves zero stars is because there's this one hot scene in the movie where Carmen pours milk down her body. But if you're looking to see Carmen naked throughout the majority of the movie, prepared to be disappointed.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Chosen One, The Ledgend of The Raven
Review: I wasn't expecting a theatrical master piece, but this one leaves a lot to be desired. Some very lovely ladies, but not enough shots of them to cover for the bad plot. I saw this on DVD, and didn't like the format. You couldn't go straight to "PLAY". I also couldn't get rid of the Directors commentary with the first section. I finally got rid of it by the second, and I don't have this problem with other DVD's I own. (on the other one's I own, you have to chose that option, it doesn't automatically come on, though there may be a flaw in my copy) As for the plot, it was basically rehashed ideas from hundreds of other B movies, except this one was more vague. I did like the all womens costumes though.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Chosen One, The Ledgend of The Raven
Review: I wasn't expecting a theatrical master piece, but this one leaves a lot to be desired. Some very lovely ladies, but not enough shots of them to cover for the bad plot. I saw this on DVD, and didn't like the format. You couldn't go straight to "PLAY". I also couldn't get rid of the Directors commentary with the first section. I finally got rid of it by the second, and I don't have this problem with other DVD's I own. (on the other one's I own, you have to chose that option, it doesn't automatically come on, though there may be a flaw in my copy) As for the plot, it was basically rehashed ideas from hundreds of other B movies, except this one was more vague. I did like the all womens costumes though.


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