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Maybe people had too high expectations, maybe you all waited for the next Witcher... well, this isn't one.

This is a completely different world, different situations and very different goal: it tells the story of how the Witcher Universe have started.

I think it is a fair intermezzo between two Witcher seasons, if I take it as that: we have a story (actually I think based on the original concepts), we have various heroes and a lot of fights in various styles. And plenty of background of the mysteriously repeatedly mentioned historical events from the Witcher.

I had no problem following the story, I had no problem seeing where it have laid down the base of the Witcher present, and had a bit of fun trying to guess who'll turn into what. The story is not that simple to make guessing boring.

Both acting and the camera handling was imperfect, and the actors weren't always good, but since I have seen bad reviews I have expected much, much worse than it was. I actually enjoyed multiple characters doing their (sometimes awkward) lines and moves, I don't think actors were that bad at all, and I do not have the aftertaste of "bad series". Sorry.

Maybe if you don't expect another Lord of the Rings but some stories from the Silmarils it'd be less stressful to watch this. :-) These stories are slower, longer, and possibly way less adventurous, but they are the reason why the Witcher and his company does what they are.

(Oh, and I'd probably stop watching the series without Cavill. That's an unfortunate move, slightly unrelated to BO.)

I was very disappointed watching the movie and this is one of my lowest rated ever, and it's pretty rare that I feel it was a complete waste of time.

Many people mentioned elsewhere all the factual problems, the inconsistencies, the unexplainable actions and generally all the errors in the story and they highlighted the quality of action scenes. I cannot really say anything else, the problem is that I do not need movies with 100% action and 0% storyline, and this storyline has so few originality, and all of these originality is so illogical that it is completely worthless. Watching the film I kept asking myself "why this" and "why that", and kept thinking "they must be kidding". If this is a parody then I missed the laughs. Maybe it's me: I need some minimal consistency, some base to be believable which supports all the fiction built on it, but there's more in Cinderella than here.

The actors (and the post production) did a fair job to make it possible to watch the movie at all.

We've seen the trailer of this movie and said "no way". A friend told us to watch it anyway, so we tried.

It is completely unlike its trailer. It's good. What I expect from a drama: contains sad moments, happy moments, jokes and deep thoughts; it was not a completely dark, depressing movie at all. It is understandable why they didn't force the fact that this movie "is about the love life a blind person", because in reality it was not really, and I acknowledge that it would be very hard to make a trailer which could suggest the overall feeling of the movie.

The chronology is interesting, as we gradually get to know what already have happened, and it is rarely distracting. The acting is good (with lots of good supporting characters), the characters all felt real, but not overacted and exaggerated, as most of todays Hungarian movies do.

This one was well above the other Hungarian releases of nowadays, free of mindless jokes and funny acting but still not being overly heavy and depressing. (And maybe the best thing was about it the lack of the popcorn-munching people, so I suppose the movie is not for those people expecting an average Saturday evening light waste of time.)