Based on the manga Saint Seiya. Every bit as stupid as I expected, so my hope was that it would also be "fun." The effects are reasonably good, and they chose from the top end of B-list actors' list. Famke Janssen, Madison Iseman, Mark Dacascos, Sean Bean (who dies, because he almost always dies ...).

The protagonist is "Seiya," played by the mononymous "Mackenyu" - who turns out to have at least two different last names he's gone by ("Maeda" and "Arata"), neither of which match that of his famous father, Sonny Chiba. Closer examination shows that Sonny Chiba's birth name was "Sadaho Maeda." Mackenyu is good-looking, buff, and an untalented actor. Seiya has a tragic back-story which we see a bit of: he's a street orphan, raised (and taught how to fight) by his older sister, who was taken from him by an evil organization.

After that small piece of back-story, we see Seiya entering an underground fighting tournament. He's very good at not getting hit, but when he's battered by the leader of the underground tournament, he manifests "Cosmo," which we see as flaring blue light and which protects him. And then Sean Bean and Marc Dacascos show up to rescue him before the evil organization can haul him away because he has "Cosmo." It turns out that he's destined to become the Pegasus Knight, defender of the goddess Athena. (Did I mention that this is silly?) We get more fights, a training montage, Seiya bonding with the young woman who will become Athena (Madison Iseman), and eventually the big final fight.

The problem is ... Iseman and Mackenyu are carrying the story, and they're not very good actors. Of course most people who watch this aren't overly concerned with that minor detail, but should they pay attention to the "drama" instead of the action, they'll be deeply disappointed. The supporting cast is no better: take, for example, Mark Dacascos. A good martial artist who isn't a terrible actor, but will never be cast as a dramatic lead. Although Diego Tinoco deserves some kind of recognition as the worst of the lot as the lead henchman of the antogonist: he put on sarcasm-face at the beginning of the movie and didn't drop it for the entire run.

This was never intended to be a stand-alone movie - it was a manga series after all. They carefully set up a sequel at the end, a sequel that's extremely unlikely to land as not only did this bomb with critics, its box office was awful. Sorry Seiya, you may be the Pegasus Knight but we'll never see the rest of the Zodiac.