I was afraid it'd be a cheap flop just to ride on its name, but.. they actually provided. Movie isn't perfect. Has some moments that i felt weak and even annoying.. But.. Yeah. It was fun.
Fight choreography was of rather high quality.
There's ALOT of CGI... But.. It was good CGI. It made me WANT to be there in that world.
Characters are okay, although i felt like they could have squeezed slightly more out of them. I did like the plot overall.
Flaws of the movie: 1. This is my opinion so maybe wasn't issue to others. The moment our rougish bard meets with his daughter and then drama ensues.. All of this could have been solved with few sentences... But the plot had to move forward.
2. This is more of the setup problem. Fans of D&D might recognize big names, like Neverwinter, Baldurs Gate and they'd know what's the history of those.. But for non D&D watchers? Those names could have been cuss words in elvish and we wouldn't know better.
3. Characters felt "teleporting" across the continent. We need X that's in a village on the other part of the map? And here we are in the next scene! This made movie felt... i wouldn't say cheap, but.. rushed. Like this continent is about the size of Wall Mart. We didn't feel the scale of the world due to effortlessly getting to whatever points of interests characters needed.
If you like PC games (Neverwinter Nights, Baldurs Gate etc) sure, go ahead, you will enjoy it.
If you like playing RPG board games with your buddies, you'll love it too
And finally if you have no clue about anything related to D&D, yet you like Fantasy, also, it's casual fun too!
Fight choreography was of rather high quality.
There's ALOT of CGI... But.. It was good CGI. It made me WANT to be there in that world.
Characters are okay, although i felt like they could have squeezed slightly more out of them. I did like the plot overall.
Flaws of the movie: 1. This is my opinion so maybe wasn't issue to others. The moment our rougish bard meets with his daughter and then drama ensues.. All of this could have been solved with few sentences... But the plot had to move forward.
2. This is more of the setup problem. Fans of D&D might recognize big names, like Neverwinter, Baldurs Gate and they'd know what's the history of those.. But for non D&D watchers? Those names could have been cuss words in elvish and we wouldn't know better.
3. Characters felt "teleporting" across the continent. We need X that's in a village on the other part of the map? And here we are in the next scene! This made movie felt... i wouldn't say cheap, but.. rushed. Like this continent is about the size of Wall Mart. We didn't feel the scale of the world due to effortlessly getting to whatever points of interests characters needed.
If you like PC games (Neverwinter Nights, Baldurs Gate etc) sure, go ahead, you will enjoy it.
If you like playing RPG board games with your buddies, you'll love it too
And finally if you have no clue about anything related to D&D, yet you like Fantasy, also, it's casual fun too!