Series Review: Witcher
As is usually the case these days TV and movies are more often than a not comic book or gaming adaptations, and usually, this fails pretty spectacularly, especially in gaming. I don't think there has been a gaming movie that was worth being created.
I could give the first Resident Evil, Tomb Raider and Silent Hill a pass but that's as far as I'm willing to go. They were by no means real breakouts for the genre, but they were decent movies on in their own right.
So with gaming being a tough cookie to crack, I was surprised at Netflix trying to turn The Witcher into a TV series. I never played the first two games, but I have played the third and its a long-ass open-world game filled with missions and monster hunting.
So with that much content, lore and world-building, the writers shouldn't be stuck for creating fleshed-out characters and a good story.
Poster for The Witcher - Image source: - goldposter.com
What Is The Witcher About?
The Witcher centres around its main character Geralt of Rivia and his adventures as a monster hunter. He is a mutant and therefore a social outcast from a species known as Witchers. He lives his life as a solitary monster hunter struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.
His only quests involve getting paid to kill monsters that plague towns in exchange for a coin but eventually gets caught between two warring human nations: the Nilfgaardian Empire and Northern Kingdoms.
Trailer for The Witcher
What I Thought of The Witcher About?
First, off I have to say Henry Cavill as Geralt is the best part of this show 100%. No doubt about that. The show is worth watching just for his portrayal. He cares about the character, and embodies the Witchers discontent for humanity and all their silly rituals that have them thinking they are a superior race.
The fight choreography is just insane with some highly entertaining fight sequences as he battles several monsters throughout the series.
For someone who doesn't know the story, the screenplay and directing make it hard to follow. One minute you're in present-day, next minute you're in a flashback, and you can't keep up nor would you care to keep up, it gets too annoying. The script is terrible, and the timeline jumps around but with no discernible reason.
Geralt's story arc gets enough time, but I am still waiting for some real plot to develop. And both Yennifer and Ceri's stories are so rushed and jump-cut, there's no time to develop the characters enough to understand who they are, what is happening to them. And why I should care (which I don't). Not that I mind because although I like the Yennifer and Ceri's characters, the actors didn't do a good job and were forgettable at best.
Music is a particularly pathetic point of the series - it doesn't play at all. It does not build tension, does not add depth, does nothing. Some tracks sound as if the editor left them accidentally and forgot to delete before sending it to Netflix.
My rating for The Witcher
The show has high production value and a decent story to tell which will entertain you if you're not familiar with the liberties they take from the original content. The CGI looks decent and is not overused with the battles being gritty and epic.
I wasn't a fan of the amount of humour injected into the script I feel like this formula is overused and yes audiences who don't know the content will appreciate it, Still, we don't have to be mass media formulaic about everything we do, do we? Oh well, that's my pain point.
The show is a decent watch, drags on a bit and jumps between too many timelines for my liking and doesn't pay off as well as I would like, considering what they have to play with and a strong lead carrying the show.
I hope season 2 will find the show correcting these issues, but for now, I'll have to give it 7 coins out of 10
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I agree with your assessment of this film. I felt the humor was unnecessary and that the plot was terribly confusing, particularly for people unfamiliar with the story which i would presume would be most people. Sometimes it isn't even evident that we are now in a different TIME because there are only subtle indicators that this is the case. Maybe this was intentional and it will all come together in season 2... i hope so, because I feel that most people are probably not as interested in this as they might have hoped they would be.... even fans of the games.
Totally ive thought about rewatching it to see if i could better make sense of it the second time around but then i just read the whole thing online to get my head around it!
I know the game works like that but its a medium where you can pull it off, in the show it just got messy really quickly
I agree i hope season 2 they will line up the story a lot better because this show really has potential
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