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Germany has some pretty awesome folklore and mythology. Germans also developed and built some of the best film equipment in the world. Unfortunately, Germany doesn't seem to have any talented people to bring those two together.

HAGEN is a tremendous waste of crew talent and money, and it is even more sad when you occasionally see a glimpse of what this could have been in the hands of somewhat capable filmmakers. The script delivers a boring, incoherent story that fails to take its audience on any journey. The characters are astonishingly bland, and Hagen himself stumbles through this film in complete apathy.

It is a special gift to make the ancient German equivalent of Severus Snape be so terribly boring, but somehow the writers-directors accomplished this seemingly impossible feat. His actor is amongst the best of the entire film, but still fails to carry it, actively being stripped of any charisma and/or actual things to do in the scene. The rest of the actors are mostly embarrassing, especially Kriemhild and Siegfried. What a farce.

And so, this is another fine example of how millions of euros get burned to produce embarrassingly bad films and shows and keep a small elite of "filmmakers" on top of the game. It doesn't even matter how bad and ill-received these productions are - somehow, it's always still the same names, the same production companies, the same incompetence.