Needless to say that I had never heard about the 2021 fantasy adventure movie "The Rangers: Bloodstone" from writer and director David Nordquist. And with it being a fantasy movie that I hadn't already seen, of course I opted to give the movie a chance, as I have been an avid fantasy fan since my early teen years.

Honestly speaking, then I wasn't expecting "The Rangers: Bloodstone" to be more than yet another movie made by LARPers for LARPers; you know, the Live Action Role-Playing thing with loons running around in the forest dressed up as wizards, rangers and orcs, playing Dungeons & Dragons.

I will say that "The Rangers: Bloodstone" started out okay, but then the movie stalled some time before even reaching the midway point and the movie just lost momentum as the air quickly seeped from the balloon, so to speak. So this wasn't exactly a great addition to the fantasy genre, not like the movies like "Beastmaster", "Lord of the Rings", etc.

Sure, "The Rangers: Bloodstone" is watchable, if you enjoy fantasy movies, just don't go expect a whole lot from the storyline, because it started out okay, then just slowly died a slow, horrible death along the way.

And yeah, there definitely was some LARPing atmosphere going on in "The Rangers: Bloodstone", I will not lie about that. Actually, in one scene where Drustan Lorne (played by the writer and director himself) was being attacked by some thugs, one of the thugs wore a leather helmet exactly like one I have on display at home. So yeah, this was a low key home-made LARP movie, no doubt about it.

This is not a movie that I would recommend you spend your time, money or effort on. And it was a movie that came and went without as much as a squeak of noise for me. And it will fade into oblivion by the end of today, of that I am certain.

My rating of David Nordquist's "The Rangers: Bloodstone" lands on a three out of ten stars.

Well, I started off with the "I ain't gonna like this " mentality because I broke my 1st Golden Rule of Enjoying a Movie....... 1) Pay ZERO Attention to the Reviews!!! With so many 1's I thought "Nah.... It ain't gonna happen" , but as usual, EVERY time I read those DUMBA$$$$ reviews I get hung up!

After reading and writing literally Hundreds of reviews on IMDb I STILL see people making the same mistakes over and over, and people that expect EVERY movie that comes out to have a 12 Billion Dollar Budget and then Whine "1's" when it's not!

This was an EXCELLENT MOVIE! Granted, the acting wasn't great, but LIGHT years from the worst I've seen! The sets and Costume were GREAT! Makeup Very Good! Just all in all a Great little movie for a Friday night pizza!

But BOY, watch the "Couch Critics" go WILD with this one! Lol...... but pay no attention, most of em wouldn't know a good movie if it crawled up their Butt.

Very amateurish attempt at The Rings of the Nibelung, or some kind of Lord of the Rings thing, or Shannara Chronicles. But this flick is poorly done. Seen on Tubi, the free streaming site, which has many indie films, foreign films, older major releases; and now, live TV.