All Reviews

Wow, this is really cool looking and clearly professional quality test film! I love all the little touches, stylistic choices which draw you into the story! It's a visual feast and visually stunning! I love deep sea type mystery movies with a broader discovery so I'm a sucker for this type of story. Amazing job! I don't have a ton to add but if I get chance to edit and put up a more through and detailed review I will. As far as test movies go -- it's a top notch execution visually and is quite dazzling! I also love the almost Tarantino-esque retro silhouette credit graphic. Those kinds of details are nice and fit the genre of the film. WOW. Fantastic work!

The style of your execution, the music and sound -- everything -- gives a very clear vision of what this movie would be: a blockbuster action franchise. Well done throughout and wonderfully detailed. I loved the score. Loved the theme song over the credits. The actors did a good job. And the pacing, especially in the animated and action sequences, was wonderful. By far the best of all the movies I've watched on this site. Best of luck to you and congratulations.

The movie started off a little James Bondish, but that aspect of it only served to capture my attention. I thought the pace was pretty fast during the entire movie. At some points I wanted it to slow down a bit.
The first romantic scene was well-placed, however, the characters appeared to experience lust, not the beginning of love. They were "in love" by the second romantic scene and I felt they had reached the point where they would risk their life for each other, mainly because of their personalities, not because they were in love. I felt they had every reason to trust each other as comrades, but not much reason to fall in love. The falling in love was too formulaic.
The police officer arriving on the scene at Gold diggers had too much information to have remained at the scene. I wondered how he could have gotten prints from the gun when there was no indication that he had left the scene.
The professor's dialogue when she met who she thought was the Fuhrer was unnecessary. We had already heard it and the fake Fuhrer of course knew it. It didn't seem to be a stall tactic. I asked myself why she was saying all that. I thought it would lead to something, but I didn't see where it did.
The story was tight, well-researched. Overall, I thought the movie was very well done.

This movie had a lot of odd parts which i will not deem as good nor bad. I found the color change extremely annoying and distracting, though just black and white would just be boring. you could tell when something was coming, with the bright white objects, but all but the animation was way above average. I think the amount of history the movie got into could be difficult, and the director and crew dealt with that very well, and i could see a few places where it folded back on it's self.
But i can't be negative the whole time, so I'll highlight some of the points I liked most.
the story started like a sports film, which was very interesting, and I loved how something new got added to the story almost every scene. the characters were a little vague, but only when they were introduced. otherwise the characters had a lot of actual history to them, so much I felt that I was almost getting to know them as the movie went along.
Technical aspects were all in order, I noticed how the score didn't pop out as many directors have it, which complemented the actors. animation could have been better, but it is a test movie, so great! I would love to see this in theaters. It's definitely not something I would show to kids because of violence, (it seemed like they were on a full feature film killing streak) but mostly because kids don't know the history parts of it.

Really enjoyed this movie. The name alone is intriguing. Great story and characters amid cool settings. Loved the twist where the head villain turned out to be the VP. Like how Marty used WWII and Iraq War events as foundations of this story. He definitely knows his spycraft. I could definitely see this as a full budget movie. It was a lot of fun. Dangerous twists at every turn. Some characters you can empathize with, others you hope they catch a bullet, or worse. (The dutch hooker /assassin will cure many a moviegoer's mid-life crisis). I highly recommend it. The movie, that is.

Wow. This is the first one I've seen that justifies AS's idea that test movies can convey what the finished product might be like. Congratulations. Looks like a sure winner to me.

Plus, I hadn't read a draft since the earliest version. The rewrite is spectacular and needs only a bit of emotional saucing to bring that aspect up to match the five-star premise and story structure.

This project isn't looking for development -- it's already begun. In earnest. The only question left is whose name(s) will accompany Marty's on the wide-release, big budget version.

This is a lot of fun. Thank you.

Overall, this test film rocks. Incredibly hard to use crude animation and voiceover to tell a complex story but this one hits it out of the park and makes it incredibly easy to imagine how thrilling a ride Alchemist's Agenda will be.