A Masterpiece!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

I was pleasantly surprised by this one.Despite the 2010 animation restrictions, I found the plot and pace were great entertainment.Definitely worth the view.

Um, what happened here? Dan Abnett on script? Terrance Stamp and John Hurt as voice actors? What happened? If you know nothing about the Warhammer 40k universe, do not watch this. Very little is explained about the back story and rather than an advert it should be seen as a promotional item. Ultramarines takes place on a deserted planet, where a squad of ultramarines, a captain and an apothecary have been sent to investigate a loss of communications with the local garrison. WHat they find is a planet overrun, and with the exception of two survivors, everyone is an enemy. Well, the films plot is dull, empty, with much opportunity for character development but there's only a handful of characters who seem to exist besides firing a gun three or four times. There's a plot twist which, while unexpected, isn't well done, and the cgi is sub par at best when no one has a helmet on. There's some good voice acting, but besides that Ultramarines should only be for the die hardest of fans, ready to see contradictions galore in the plot. 2/10 - Very bad

Three stars and three only shine out of the bottomless abyss of despair that is this movie.1. It was made. Being a fan of the Warhammer universe setting in general I was excited to see this movie finally being made.2. Quality voice talent. They really pulled out the stops when it came to hiring actors, so I have no cause to complain there.3. Dan Abnett's name was attached to it. IF you are a fan of his writing as I am, then I suppose you can count this among the positives, otherwise, I'm sorry that this was your first exposure to his work. In my imagination, they forced him to write the screenplay from within a locked closet without food or water while being harried by rabid weasels.Otherwise, terrible. The exposition of the Warhammer setting is poorly handled, the plot not terribly compelling, the pacing is awful - unless extended scenes of people walking through a hazy landscape is your thing, in which case I expect you would find this to be the apotheosis of cinema.Why are we walking through the desert for 45 minutes? Couldn't the drop ship have brought us closer to our destination, considering that it's a FLAT PLAIN that extends for hundreds of miles? This brings us to the CGI. Ten years on from The Matrix, video effects have become much cheaper, so I can't comprehend why the visual quality of this film is so poor, even setting aside the fact that every character looks identical.I can only imagine that the producers ran over budget on voice acting. There are scenes where the focal depth is so poor it approaches the surreal. Stop to consider for a moment that focal depth needs to be set manually in a CGI film rather than what naturally occurs with a camera.The endlessly shifting dust or fog or whatever that fills every frame of this movie is subject to the same aberrations, sometimes something that appears foreground is suddenly revealed to be backdrop when a character walks in front of it. Sloppy, just sloppy.

From a pure movie critic or general mass audience perspective this movie is not worth registering. This is not a James Cameron movie with millions of dollars in budget, but this movie has Avatar beaten by far.But if you are into science fiction, horrors and fantasy then this movie is great.It follows a team of space marines on their journey to respond to a distress signal. The movie features good plot twists, excellent thriller/horror atmosphere and very good CGI. The combat is awesome and the brutality is hilarious as only WH40K can be.The only downside is the poor sound quality used for the effects.