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BroyaxSep 3, 2021

Ce long-métrage d’animation est nettement mieux que la série, laquelle n’était qu’un nid d’impostures et un flot de conneries ininterrompues qui faisaient injure à la franchise si renommée (des jeux de CDPR et des livres de Sapkowski).

CeCe long-métrage d’animation est nettement mieux que la série, laquelle n’était qu’un nid d’impostures et un flot de conneries ininterrompues qui faisaient injure à la franchise si renommée (des jeux de CDPR et des livres de Sapkowski).

Ce ‘Cauchemar du Loup’ s’intéresse ici à l’histoire de Vesemir, le fameux mentor de Géralt, ainsi qu’à la chute de Kaer Mohren, le haut-lieu des Sorceleurs… Le personnage de Vesemir est dans l’ensemble assez bien développé, notamment son cynisme, ses contradictions et ses regrets, de même que celles de la sorcière antagoniste…

Le rythme ne faiblit pas et l’on ne voit pas le temps passer… cependant, si le récit est dense, il s’avère également un brin fouillis, pour ne pas dire désordonné : la narration reste trop souvent confuse, à force de s’éparpiller en rebondissements plus ou moins improbables. La violence et une certaine cruauté propres à cet univers sont en tout cas respectées, ce qui rassure sensiblement…

Mais à l’instar de la série, on déplore la ‘woke attitude’ de notre (triste) époque appliquée à un monde totalement incompatible ! notamment, ce côté SJW à la petite semaine et cette justice inclusive socialo-progressiste à deux dollars que l’on retrouve si fréquemment dans les productions Netflix : l’un des sorceleurs est une tante et de nombreux gens de couleur officient comme si de rien n’était dans le folklore d’héroic fantasy slave si riche du Sorceleur ! (c’est une saga d’origine polonaise au cas où vous ne le sauriez pas…).

Du côté de l’animation (sous-traitée en Corée du Sud), ce n’est pas si mal pour de la simple 2D (hélas !) sauf vers la fin où l’animation proprement dite marque sévèrement le pas : elle est tout-à-coup salopée dans ce grand final et par ailleurs, le montage devient également beaucoup trop hâché (menu). Finalement, le bilan reste très mitigé entre une impression générale de confusion, une fidélité à l’univers un peu tiède et des enjeux mal expliqués et/ou un peu trop escamotés.… Expand

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Artemon96Aug 26, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well, in fact, it turned out to be another Castelvania, according to the plot, according to the drawing. It won't change anything if you replace the witchers with Alucard and his gang.
There's nothing of the witcher in this story, but that's half the problem. There is no LOGIC in this story. Spoilers. A test in the swamp, when the witchers throw the recruits to certain death. Indigenous Afro-Kadwen people. Full-fledged magic is used by witchers instead of the signs aard and igni. At the same time, there is no hint of Quen, Irden and Axii. The sorceress, paired with a mutant elf, directs the monsters to storm Kaer-Morhen, the peasants storm the same Kaer-Morhen side by side with the monsters. What does all this mean? Lambert is the same age as Eskel and Geralt. Witchers who breed monsters so that they have someone to kill. The fact that after a long time, when Vesemir has time to grow old, the monsters will still not be destroyed, although no witchers will breed them anymore, does not bother anyone.
Not a hint of the Conjugation of the Spheres, as if it did not exist. That story with the priest, because of which everything started spinning, is also a brain drain. Vesemir bribed the cook to poison the priest, so that the priest thought that he had been defiled, and hired a witcher to kill the sorceress... The damn plan is simple. Reliable as a Swiss watch, if I understood everything correctly.… Expand

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callmeabotgirlAug 23, 2021

good anime. but nothing related to Witcher Universe unfortunately(
looks more as another season for Castlevania)
for those who read books and played games it will be really dissapointing.

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HoundFromHellAug 23, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I Can say I'm not a huge fan of witcher. personally i just recently have gotten into it. since Ive played witcher 3,and watched the Netflix show. But I can even see that they are trying to cash in on the castlevania series. With the over the top fighting, and with a weak story I found myself wanting to turn it off half way threw. even in vesemirs flashbacks, talks about swindling people from their money, but then hes shocked that they create monsters to continue there life style??????? If anything vesemir would most likely be ok with it. Here you have a man who's driven by coin and then all of sudden he grows a heart. I mean what did he think was gonna happen if all the monsters were killed? it would have made more sense to have had the witch be the one truly making the monsters, and pin it on the witchers. in the end i did enjoy some of the story, the animation was good, and monsters were interesting. But not good enough to get a second look over.… Expand

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Jeje3084Aug 23, 2021

I'll be honest as a fan of the book, games and tv show this was quite a let down. Fight are too extreme and spectacularized, the story is average and uninspired, i was expecting to see Vesemir tackling a Bloody Baron questlike or somethingI'll be honest as a fan of the book, games and tv show this was quite a let down. Fight are too extreme and spectacularized, the story is average and uninspired, i was expecting to see Vesemir tackling a Bloody Baron questlike or something like the striga quest. Too much action not much story, the exact opposite of what the witcher should be.… Expand

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4

NorleftAug 23, 2021

The witcher es un mundo de fantasía con un toque de realidad. Las personas sangran, mueren y resisten lo que una persona normal resistiría. Hay brujos y magos, todos estos alterándose y sacrificando algo de ellos mismos para poder ser un pocoThe witcher es un mundo de fantasía con un toque de realidad. Las personas sangran, mueren y resisten lo que una persona normal resistiría. Hay brujos y magos, todos estos alterándose y sacrificando algo de ellos mismos para poder ser un poco más fuertes.

Los brujos no pegan saltos de 20 metros mientras pelean, tampoco hacen nukes con sus manos, si un brujo le arrancan o le hacen daño, lo sufre como una persona normal (puede aguantar más, gracias a sus mutaciones o pociones) pero al fin y al cabo pueden caerse de un 3 piso y hacerse daño o incluso matarse.

Que esa es la gracia del mundo de The Witcher, que Geralt en combate podía ser un maestro, pero si un bicho simplemente le envenenaba lo iba a pasar putas o incluso morir si no lo remediaba a tiempo.

No me esperaba nada bueno, pero ufff.... tiene un 4 porque entre muchas comillas el lore es correcto.… Expand

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RoastboeufAug 26, 2021

Although visually stunning, the technical brilliance of Kwang Il Han and his team cannot quite make up for the lack of character in this bland Americanization of the beloved source material.

Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and Beau DeMayo work toAlthough visually stunning, the technical brilliance of Kwang Il Han and his team cannot quite make up for the lack of character in this bland Americanization of the beloved source material.

Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and Beau DeMayo work to strip away all traces of the Polish and Slavic folklore and mythology that were so brilliantly researched and intricately brought to life to captivate the minds and hearts of the millions who fell in love with the Witcher books and video games.

What is left are characters that are 2 dimensional in more than just their artistic style, goodies and baddies with haughty RP accents and generic poorly thought out backstories in a seemingly random somehow multi cultural medieval setting displaying none of the well thought out world building that lays the groundwork for the immersive stories of the books and the games.

The "Story" itself also goes to several lengths to both ignore the lore of the Witcher universe and in several cases outright break it, delivering a cheap deus ex machina to provide a bad guy antagonist, followed by a rallying of all the good people to fight for a good cause just like the ill received ending of Star Wars The last Jedi.

A good feat of animation this is, however Vessimir this is not, and The Witcher this is not, just an animated Marvel film about a generic monster hunter with some shameless stabs at further milking the IP of The Witcher.… Expand

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DaermonAug 28, 2021

Netflix ruining again the Witcher franchise… Story and charachter writing is very bad.

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Decx-wolfAug 28, 2021

so ill keep my thoughts brief, this movie is honestly pretty average, held up mainly by the amazing animation and cool actions scenes that hit the right amount of boom to keep you watching, and its not afraid to show gore which is exclent.so ill keep my thoughts brief, this movie is honestly pretty average, held up mainly by the amazing animation and cool actions scenes that hit the right amount of boom to keep you watching, and its not afraid to show gore which is exclent.

however good animation and such cannot hold a movie up completlely and with everything else the movie sadly falls, lets take for instance the charcters if your a major fan youd probaly know everyone (i think) but if your a guess lesser fan like myself youd only realy know vessimir and without knowing the other charcters they have realy no weight and the movie doesnt do enough to make you give a **** if it was a series then maybe we could have dedicated time to learning those so newer people could enjoy but as a movie their wasnt enough.

honestly can sum this up as "if you want to watch a movie/series about monster hunters slaying the terrors of the night go watch castelvania" which yeah is true and i understand some might go "o you just wanna **** on it you castlevania fanboy" or whatever but no i did enjoy the movie and honestly if it was maybe an extra hour or even 30mins i might forgive more cause wed have seen more, but as it is it just doesnt hold up sad to say, i do hope we will see more cause like the castlevania series it deserves more and to see more of the wonder, and i truly hope the people who made this realise this and use this as a building block for more

thank you for reading it all i just thought it was worth talking about.… Expand

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BerikSep 9, 2021

There's a fine line between extending the story, and writing straight up fan fiction. This is fan fiction on steroids.

Black kaedwin nobles? Amputee Witchers? Mages collaborating with mutant elves!? Monsters just flying into portals withoutThere's a fine line between extending the story, and writing straight up fan fiction. This is fan fiction on steroids.

Black kaedwin nobles? Amputee Witchers? Mages collaborating with mutant elves!? Monsters just flying into portals without looking back!? Gay Witchers!?? Did no one at any point think it might have been a good idea to just smack Lauren Schmidt Hissrich on the head, and tell her that no one likes her feminist, "all inclusive" garbage injections in the story? If you forget that the main goal of a movie is to entertain, but priortize some juvenile all inclusive political view, you have lost sight. I read somewhere that she has signed some deal with Netflix to do other shows, so maybe after season 2 some dude comes in and realizes how retarded the casting for The Witcher has been so far. Stop blackwashing characters, and stop breaking the lore. It is not making your show better, and this movie isn't more diverse rather than just a travesty in terms of character portrayal.

Now back to the movie. The movie is actually pretty darn entertaining until the final act. Witchers are getting arrogant, and one takes this to new extremes. Vesemir is a cocky Schwarzenegger, and gets a taste of his own medicine. And then there's a made up love interest, and some **** sorceress who, instead of working out her issues, blames all the Witchers for the acts of one bad apple in the most childish and irrational way you can think of.

Entertaining, but come on. This is rather a parody than Canon with the books or The Witcher show. They even managed to **** up the appearance of Gerald of Rivia. Bald...??? Did they even read the books or is this just stabbing at non existing masoginy by the creator? 6/10.… Expand

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OstR1chAug 28, 2021

6/10 это хорошая плата за однорукого ведьмака, творящего мощные заклинания и вообще за мощные заклинания у ведьмаков, только белых рабов раз уж на то пошло и круглые зрачки. Нормальное аниме, но плохое аниме по ведьмаку.6/10 это хорошая плата за однорукого ведьмака, творящего мощные заклинания и вообще за мощные заклинания у ведьмаков, только белых рабов раз уж на то пошло и круглые зрачки. Нормальное аниме, но плохое аниме по ведьмаку.

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AthanasiosTSep 9, 2021

A good effort to improve the -really bad- tv series. Writing was ok, but a little away from the books. Image and voice acting pretty good. There was even a female villain character (hard to find in modern political correctness).

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GotHeeeemSep 10, 2021

Watched a total of 1 minute and 23 seconds of the movie so my review may not hold true for the whole film. My first thoughts were that this movie already looks potentially woke, is netflix butchering this already? Then the pacing seemed offWatched a total of 1 minute and 23 seconds of the movie so my review may not hold true for the whole film. My first thoughts were that this movie already looks potentially woke, is netflix butchering this already? Then the pacing seemed off going from the calm sequences to the action scenes, even though the action seemed solid, it was still another bad sign. Then, what nailed the coffin was when they pulled a star wars episode 8, unrealistic Good guy is indestructible, smiles and makes toddler jokes in the face of a very dangerous opponent. It just seemed unrealistic, and thus sadly I had to turn it off and check reviews. Looks like I made the right choice.… Expand

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eva3si0nSep 12, 2021

Anime does not like much, anime from Netflix especially. The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf causes mixed feelings. On the one hand, I want to see already season 2 of the series, on the other hand, the anime is not a bad option to fuelAnime does not like much, anime from Netflix especially. The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf causes mixed feelings. On the one hand, I want to see already season 2 of the series, on the other hand, the anime is not a bad option to fuel interest in the franchise. But alas as an independent work, Nightmare of the Wolf looks like a class B product. The plot is boring, the graphics are not surprising and the most important animated film does not affect the overall history of the franchise, without giving it anything new. Alas but mediocre cinema.… Expand

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destinyfan1Jan 3, 2022

This movie screams "ok" , nothing is exceptional and nothing is terrible either. At first i disliked how overly overdone the fight scenes were but i accepted it later in the movie. The story is also pretty weak and the pacing felt a bit offThis movie screams "ok" , nothing is exceptional and nothing is terrible either. At first i disliked how overly overdone the fight scenes were but i accepted it later in the movie. The story is also pretty weak and the pacing felt a bit off at times. I don't think you should skip this if you really want to have some witcher content. But don't jump your seat before starting this movie.… Expand

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