Promo material claims this British "mockbuster" (a deliberately, often shamelessly derivative science fiction/fantasy/horror quickie shot digitally on a paltry budget) owes existence to twin inspirations Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Resident Evil franchise. We might have guessed Neil Gaiman and seemingly countless "urban paranormal" novels as well. But on this level, there probably wasn't much money left to award correct answers. Endure the open narration in its entirety and you are probably the intended audience.
The evil being Chaos (Mark Sears) customarily bedeviled the gods of Olympus. But in modern times those gods are all dead, so Chaos decides to smite Zeus' favorites instead, the human race, using a worldwide plague (not really shown in the low budget). It turned people into vicious zombie-vampire creatures, leaving only scattered survivors.
One outside London is Nicole (Rebecca Finch), a young woman informed by hairy Chaos-fighter Rhodri (Peter Cosgrove) that she descends from none other than the goddess Nike. Rhodri trains Nicole along with two other female battlers in what is planned as mankind's last stand against London-based Chaos and his minions (the trio of heroines ultimately stride forth in matched, form-fitting Emma Peel black catsuits Rhodri has inexplicably accessed).
One wishes director Rebecca Matthews (late of such productions as Leprechaun's Curse and Jurassic Island) had conjured even a jaggie-ridden 16-bit landscape of CGI volcanoes or somesuch, to at least provide a kitsch-apocalyptic backdrop to the infernal duels. But fights unfold in dim rooms against a few gnomish marauders or in deserted UK public parks and thoroughfares.
Actors all take this stuff with more seriousness than it deserves, when a Roger Corman or Charles Band-esque sense of humor could have helped. Moody cinematography carries the material for a while until one realizes it is not going to get any better as it goes along. At least violence and swearing stay near the PG-13 end of Armageddon, but as a general fantasy time-passer Chaos reigns as a weak optional purchase for public libraries.
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