Angst? What Angst?: Will's sister seems completely fine with suddenly travelling into the past and nearly getting killed.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: They try to explain that it is the fact that he is an Old One, but the skeleton scene was just plain weird.
Cliché Storm: Frequently mentioned in the reviews. By taking out the Celtic Mythology that gave the series its depth, and completely rewriting the protagonist, the film was almost nothing but cliches.
Designated Hero: Will. He fails to take his quest at all seriously until it's almost too late, spends most of the movie refusing to listen to Merriman (or anyone else), and seems more obsessed with using his powers to steal his brother's girlfriend than anything else.
Fanon Discontinuity: Because of all the changes made to the story, made worse by the fact that neither the director or screenwriter read the book or had any respect for the source material, this is a movie that fans, including the author herself, would like to pretend never happened.
Hilarious in Hindsight: Alexander Ludwig is involved in a sequence where he goes back in time to a Viking raid. Years later he'd rise to fame as one of the main cast of Vikings.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The amount of changes made to the source material, from Will and his family being turned into Jerkasses to the Celtic Mythology being omitted (both of these changes are just to name a few), ended up turning away more fans that it earned newcomers. The fact that the director and writer of the movie barely even read the book really didn't help matters.
Christopher Eccleston, whose iteration of the Rider was the only thing even halfway accurate to the book - in fact, his strong performance feels like it belongs in a different movie altogether. On the other end, while Merriman isn't much like his book counterpart at all, Ian McShane is the only other actor whose acting makes any lasting impression (even if it's a disloyal one for fans of the book).
Amelia Warner really attempts to make Maggie seem like a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, and plays The Reveal as dramatically as she possibly can. She's trying where the screenwriter was not.
Uncertain Audience: The film's writers deliberately alienated the books' fan-base by barely making this movie an adaptation of said book series, which understandably turned away 99% of fans who enjoyed the books. However, this movie couldn't even appeal to people who've never read the books before, with most of them also bashing the movie for its cliche story, one-dimensional characters, and for ripping off elements from far superior fantasy movies without understanding what made them so good in the first place. Ultimately, the movie failed to find any audience, and ended up bombing at the box office as a result.
