“Harpies” is a film, in the loosest sense of the word, that attempts anxiously to crib from the book of Raimi, and build a character that’s almost identical to Ash Williams, from minute one. The only exception to that is that Ash Williams would have the joker that stars in this for breakfast. But that doesn’t stop the crew of this rather ridiculous production from trying their damndest to build on their own Ash for a franchise. And casting Stephen Baldwin of all people doesn’t work in favor of the character. And no, I refuse to call this “Stan Lee’s Harpies”; absolutely not, especially when the title simply says “Harpies,” sans the Stan Lee tag.

The rips just keep on coming, as Jason ends up being a prophecized warrior (Ash), is feared and then looked upon as an avenger (Ash), and has to fight an army of supernatural monsters, all paired with his fire arms (Ash), all the while Baldwin just mumbles his way through the script and looks as sleepy as I was. “Harpies” is most often, insanely incoherent, and I could never actually comprehend what the entire plot was in the first place. I never gave two flips about the carbon copy villain trying to find an amulet, I didn’t care about Jason at all, and there really aren’t very much harpies at all.

For a film built around the promise of these creatures, they only really appear as if some descents from the Wicked Witches flying monkeys, as they only appear upon the villains call, and just scratch someone to death and dash off. Meanwhile, we’re once again forced into the tedium involving Jason’s romance with Kristin Richardson’s character, who is the independent female anachronism in such an ancient time, with a narrative most similar to a low budget adult version of “A Kid in King Arthur’s Court,” in the end.

It's just an embarrassing film, and there's really no need to say it when the film stars Stephen Baldwin. Otherwise, "Harpies" is unfunny, utterly absurd, and filled with terrible performances, and a plot that cribs shamelessly from "Army of Darkness."

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