"Black Angel" is a 27-minute movie from 1980, so this one is already almost 40 years old. It was written and directed by Roger Christian, a 2-time Oscar nominee in art direction and he won the trophy once for his work on George Lucas' Star Wars. But this one here has really not much in common with this saga, except the fact that they are both fantasy films. This one here has a lot more to do with knights and princesses than with extraterrestrials as we follow the ways of a man named Maddox and what happens when a supernatural appearance saves him from drowning. The consequence is that he goes up against a dark knight (no pun intended!) and the outcome is somewhat interesting for a change as an ending like this is nothing you see in medieval films very frequently. If you can call this one medieval, that is. It's probably set in a different time and space perhaps. Anyway, Christian was a much more prolific filmmaker than most people know, but honestly judging from this one here I am not too mad that I am not really aware of his work either. The film had some lengths, even for a movie under half an hour, and is never as artistically impactful as I would have expected it looking at who's the man in charge. Story-wise, there is also nothing really memorable except the ending. I read that this film here may be turned into a new movie at some point in the near future, but it's all very vague. Cannot say yet if I have an interest in checking that one out if it does. Christian is still making films these days, so there is a possibility he could be directing here too. Being in the mid-70s should not keep him away. Back to this one here, I thought the uninteresting is more frequent than the interesting eventually and that's why I have to give it a thumbs-down. Not recommended.
Review of Black Angel
