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I am a long time (40+ years) Tolkien fan, and arguably fall into the category of being hard to please. I saw this film on IMAX and I must say that it looks pretty nice, with the scenery being exemplary. The animation style might put some people off, depending on preference, but I think it holds up. In summary, overall production value is up to expectation for me (picture, sound, voice acting etc).

Now, where it falls short is definitely on the script side, and I join the (growing) crowd who has a hard time understanding why they decided to change the storyline from the book instead of just building on it. I get the motive and all, but it is still a mystery why they decided to go in this direction, despite the fact that they know EXACTLY what will happen when it hits the Tolkien fandom.

Filmmakers could easily have done more or less the same story, including the Hera perspective, but without tampering with the source material and they would have gotten through this in a much better shape.

I guess it is a sign of the times. Sadly.

The Rohirrim War unfortunately, the end result is a film that struggles to engage the viewer, offering a flat and predictable narrative.

The anime-style animation lacks depth and often appears confusing. The character designs also appear generic and unmemorable, failing to leave a mark on the hearts of viewers. The story, centered on the defense of Helm Hammerhand, is a wasted opportunity to explore the internal dynamics of Rohan. The narrative drags on wearily, lacking twists and moments of true emotion. The dialogues are often banal and repetitive, failing to convey the complexity of the characters and their motivations.

The film suffers from slow pacing and excessive length. Many sequences are unnecessary and artificially dilate the duration, boring the viewer. The lack of pace and memorable moments makes it difficult to remain involved in the story.

The lack of originality and courage in the narrative is the biggest flaw of this feature film.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Rohirrim War" is a film that disappoints on every level. The boredom, the flat plot and the uninspired animation make this film a disappointing experience for fans of the saga. A wasted opportunity to explore a fascinating period of Middle Earth.

This movie is based on a one-page story (mostly) about Helm Hammerhand from Appendix A of the LoTR book (which is a pretty nice read btw). The book's dialogue and events are actually kept to quite an extent, with only minor alterations in detail. The film does an especially good job capturing the epic character of Helm Hammerhand, as depicted in the books. However Hera, introduced in the movie, is not in the books at all and some of her deeds are actually done in the original work by her cousin, Fréaláf.

What many people like about Tolkien's universe is its pre-industrial, simple world, where this simplicity highlights the theme of human nature/values and the moral order of the universe. In the 'classic' movies there is a lot of wisdom hidden in everyday conversations, like "All we have to do is decide what to do with the time given to us" (LoTR) or "It is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep darkness at bay" (Hobbit), which I would say are timeless truths about our world, and these are lines I think about sometimes even after the movie ends.

However, this movie has nothing to add in this front. It introduces modern issues (feminism), into Tolkien's world in a way that feels both foreign and forced, ultimately undermining both Tolkien's vision and the cause of feminism it seeks to support. It's not as bad as RoP, but still shows. Of course it's not about that women can't do any of the things depicted in the movie, or that the book should be followed exactly. It's just that it's not guided purely by the love of Tolkien's work and legacy, and it really shows.

But besides that, it's not a terrible movie. I would say it's worth a watch.

The War of the Rohirrim unfortunately feels like it was made 30 years ago.

We'll start with its biggest negative, which to me is the animation. I knew what to expect, having seen the trailer, that they'd opted for a simplistic style as the source material is around 80 years old, but that is no excuse.

Scenes like riding were poor, facial animations non existent, groups of men running just a faceless mass, but even how they chose to build each scene felt lazy to me. There is one scene for example, where our lead is being chased by a mumakil (giant elephant), where instead of showing our character running with the elephant gaining pace, they opted to have a close up of our characters feet with the noise of the elephant getting louder. It truly just felt like they didn't have the budget to show what they needed to show.

And on top of that, our story is just ok, nothing special, but a lot of the lines were very cheesy, with many unnecessary callbacks to the original trilogy. The middle act felt a little stretched out too, they probably could have shaved 20 minutes or so off.

Helm Hammerhand was a great character, our lead was your stereotypical strong female, no problems there, with no other characters particularly standing out.

It's positive for me was the music, but as they reused the scores from Howard Shore, it's almost something they couldn't get wrong,

It's a shame really, I love LOTR, both the films and the books, so to have something which feels generic and lazy, feels so far gone from the usual love that goes in to making anything based in Middle Earth.

What I would love, is a film using top of the line animation like Arcane for example, and I just hope this film doesn't stop future projects like that coming together,

Overall, worth a watch, but do not expect to be blown away.

The lesson here is that it is dangerous to monkey around with Tolkien. Unless you have something that will enhance the story, without mangling it, you will make a lot of people very angry, and angry people don't put their bums on cinema seats.

It is also not a good idea to make the characters do absurd things every 30 seconds or so. The audience are not going to react well to being faced with ridiculous, or improbable situations all the time. They will grumble to their friends about them, and those friends will decide not to bother seeing it.

I am a big anime fan. I think it's fantastic, and I watch a lot of it. It is NOT a good idea to have a film like this directed by an anime director. Anime has a different perspective to story telling. Another reviewer said that he found it strange that people just stand around when someone is in danger. Quite often that is the way that anime scenes are filmed. One defender, one attacker, or even when there is only one defender, and there are a lot of attackers. One attacker at a time, like they are taking turns.

Héra's costumes were frequently a little wrong for the same reason. The style was out of character with the universe it was in. There were also some ragged areas of the animation, where it looked like something from a decade or two ago.

I won't be watching it a second time.

3 stars for music, artwork and, technical work of the people who always work in the background.

From the very first moments of the show, the creators make sure you understand, Hera is amazing. She is endlessly strong, endlessly brave. She does not have weaknesses. Every word she says assures you that her role is to do the amazing things ahead. At this point, we can either admit the team as rookies, or realize that the creators wanted to make another strong woman trope.

I would also like to mention Herra's voice acting. It does not sound good. She says her lines like it is a spectacle, like it is the last battle of good versus evil. Only she does it from the very beginning to the very end. It was not good. If anything, I was annoyed by this pompous style. Like in many other shows and movies where a young woman is the main character, they turned her into a statement of strong and amazing woman. She does not look like a person but a typical power dream.

I did not enjoy it, it was not done with love, it was done with the intention of making another statement for the sake of progressive ideology.

I love the original The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by Peter Jackson and it is one of my favorite movie trilogies of all time. The Hobbit Trilogy was great, but it did fumble towards the end. Now, we have this new anime movie set in Middle Earth and it was great.

Positives for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024): It was great to be back in Middle Earth with another theatrical release movie and that's always fun with any of these movie franchises. The movie's animation looks amazing and the fact that this was made from $30 million just shows that you can accomplish a lot with a small budget. The voice performances from Brian Cox, Gaia Wise, Luke Pasqualino and Miranda Otto are all great. It was nice to also heard Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Christopher Lee (RIP) here and that brought a smile to my face. The movie is paced extremely well with its 2-hour runtime. And finally, there are some great action sequences throughout the movie.

Negatives for The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024): The movie does lack the epic atmosphere from Peter Jackson's original trilogy and that's always going to be a tough tack for anyone. Despite the great voice performances from the cast, the characters aren't as good as they were in original trilogy. And finally, I am going to be a little disappointed if this movie bombs because with a budget of $30 million, it needs to succeed at the box office.

Overall, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) was a great anime movie set in world of Middle Earth and while it may not be as good as Peter Jackson's trilogy, I would still recommend this movie to fan of these Middle Earth movies.

I went to watch this film with an open mind to experience something new, being an anime movie. After 5 minutes of watching, you forget you've never seen an anime movie before and it's just like watching a normal movie.

As a huge Lord of the Rings fan, I was expecting nostalgia and subtle hints at the original trilogy. It did not disappoint in that aspect, but it also brought to life a fresh new addition to the lord of the rings universe.

The film was easy to watch, has a solid storyline, great character development, fantastic action scenes and was really enjoyable from start to finish.

I would recommend this film to anyone who is a Lord of The Rings fan and wants to enjoy being thrown into middle earth for a couple of hours more!

Story is good. I mean its Tolkien. But animation is so bad. So many problems where they mix 2D and 3D. Textures are horrible. Fake Depth of field, characters floating in the air while walking. Directing mediocre. Voice acting mediocre. Such a shame for such good story. All in all solid 6. If it appeared 20 years ago would be 8 probably. But as Art Director my self I cant over look such rookie mistakes regarding art style, cutting corners by reducing action of a characters and there movement. Comparing to modern Japanese anime this is super bad. As someone who does art, and review art in daily bases this is amberesing for such big budget movie.

The difficulty with spin-offs is always that they are based on an original work which brings the problem of how to make them stand on their own? Usually it requires that they are cohesive and artistically distinct and unique. Making an anime based on the Peter Jackson's trilogy seemed like a mad idea but it certainly tackles this problem well.

The director Kenji Kamiyama is best known for his recent directive work on the Blade Runner anime spin off as well a the classic sci-fi Ghost in The Shell Stand alone complex -series (which is also a spin off from an original anime film). He has also worked on classics such as Akira and Princess Mononoke (which is certainly the most important reference point for War of the Rohirrim) in smaller roles. The animation style in terms of anime is generic (safe for western audiences) with a mix of 3D graphics with drawn animation at times. The quality varies a lot from one scene to another and on can see that the there was a limited time frame available for some specific scenes. Given that this is an anime film, it would've needed some more dynamism and creativity how it was used. The film very much follows the Jackson's story board formula with some anime tropes but I think the possibilities of an anime style were underutilized here. If one decides to make an anime film, it does not really make it any better for any audience if the end result seems a bit too subtle. The score from Howard Shore brings the epic feel of the original PJ trilogy, though otherwise the universe here feels a bit different as a more high fantasy setting.

The story is based on a short appendix text from Tolkien himself so it's a very universal classic storyline, though very predictable. Aside from the main character, there are really not other interesting ones. The designs are very interesting though. I also liked the English voice acting overall.

The film manages to be its own thing with it's style and story, but it is hampered down by being too safe for western audiences, as well as some of the sub-par production. I'm not sure to who was this made for? A lot of Tolkien fans are nerds who are familiar with anime so being too safe here with the style does not really make sense here. Making the animation more bland does not make it more appealing for audiences who would not like it anyway, and makes the overall film less memorable and more like a generic action animation. It's not a bad film but not a very memorable either.

J. R. R. Tolkien is arguably one of the best fantasy writers of all time. THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy are arguably some of my favourite movies of all time. You can now visit the lands of Middle-Earth again with THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM. This is an anime-styled adventure set almost two centuries before the tale of the One Ring. I'm happy anime is becoming more of a thing these days. The movie is based on around one page of Tolkien's appendices, it tells the tale of the legendary king of Rohan, Helm Hammerhand (Brian Cox) as he faces the repercussions of accidentally killing a lord Freca (Shaun Dooley), who tries taking the throne. Freca's son Wulf (Luke Pasqualino) swears revenge, which starts the war between the Rohirrim and the Dunlendings. The main protagonist is Héra (Gaia Wise), Helm's free-spirited daughter. She refuses to marry Wulf, which fans the flame a bit. I enjoyed this. The animation style kind of threw me off, since I'm used to seeing the live-action Middle-Earth. The story is well-crafted, the writing felt "in that world". One thing that slightly bothered me was that I found Helm himself much more interesting than Héra, which shouldn't be the case. Brian Cox just does such an amazing job at commanding and being badass, it made me wonder what this would've been if he was the focus. Héra was cool, but I feel like she should've had more to her. After watching this, I found out that the movie was fast-tracked because the production company wanted to keep the rights, which feels so corporate. If they had more time to iron things out, make things tighter, I would be over the moon. Instead, I'm just on the moon. I really enjoyed the action scenes, and the environments felt like I was in that world again. The cameos were fun too. I wasn't blown away by THE WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM, but I'd still recommend it if you're a fan of LORD OF THE RINGS. I'm just worried they're going to start milking this world, hearing they're making a live-action GOLLUM movie next. We'll see what the future holds.

I think it was an interesting idea making it anime, I applaud them for that. However.... omg, imma be short.

I didnt feel a conection with the characters which didnt allow me to live with the story, yet then I thought that it might be plot driven, but that still does not excuse the lack of motivation of the main character Hera. The whole film I was waiting for a moment where she'd be like: "I'll do this for my land. That is what i was made for!" But she didn't. It seemed as if she was fighting not because she wanted to, but because she had to. What's her big dream or something at all?

And that's the thing, the characters are far not the strongest point of this film. If you're searching for epic fight scenes and are a fan of Tolkin: go ahead, you'll love it. There's some Easter eggs too ;)

I'll also briefly mention that I felt a lil confused at the start due to the lack of character depth there was a lack of exposition and all of a sudden they're fighting one another.

I was so emerged into the style of the film of which is surprising and a wonderful script. The female who voiced the role is also very good 70% of the time.

A beautiful take and a wonderful story that draws you in as the director and crew did an amazing job.

Getting it early before everyone else, helps since I'm a Union scriptwriter.

* Characters come off surperb * storyline makes sense * visuals top notch

Some lines were off putting but in the end the audience will be pleased to see L. O. T. R films are just as perfect as this one.

Thanks to all the cast and crew who went the mile and a half.

Honestly i was surprised that I really enjoyed this. Cartoons are hit and miss with me and the older I get the harder they are to watch. This one was even more funky because it kept switching graphic designs and none of it looked right. I watched my neighbor totoro yesterday at the same theater and it was world's better graphics and it was made in the 80s. Obviously it was ment to be the same art style, but this just missed its mark especially combining the 3d stuff now and again. Hera was a bad ass and really drove the story. Their was some emotional parts and battles that kept me in the moment. I honestly should give this movie a 7 for the art, but i really enjoyed it and I love anything to do with the lord of the rings world. Taught me things I didn't know from the same realm. Next time I hope it's a live action though.

Watched at amc theater on 12-12-2024.

The people of Rohan are martial but not stupid. Helm is praised first of all because he is a leader: a man who can endure great sorrow and lead his people to survive in the desperate situation of the long winter, go out alone to kill the enemy until the opponent is scared, and finally on the eve of victory A resolute leader who died standing. So after the war, the people of Rohan spontaneously called Hornfort Helm's Deep. If it were the demented savage in the movie who surrendered in public on the city wall, was devastated after the death of his son, and finally gave up his life in the early stages of the siege because a door couldn't be opened (literally), I'm afraid he would be the first to be overthrown Helm's are the inhabitants of Helm's Deep.

This film captured my heart with its integrity and deep respect for Tolkien's universe. It's clear that everyone involved-the writers, directors, and cast-genuinely cared about this project, and their effort shines through. Helm Hammerhand and his sons are portrayed as fully fleshed-out characters, complete with flaws and strengths, making them compelling and relatable. Here herself reminds me of Éowyn, and while powerful, she's no more overpowered than someone like Aragorn or other iconic Tolkien heroes.

The story expands on the history of Helm's Deep beautifully, while also introducing us to fascinating interpretations of Tolkien's creatures and lore, including the Eagles, the Mûmakil, and the Watcher in the Water. The music is absolutely stellar, evoking the grandeur of Howard Shore's compositions from Peter Jackson's films, and the animation-reminiscent of Attack on Titan-was visually striking and engaging throughout.

On a more personal note, I feel compelled to address the negativity surrounding this film. As someone who has been a Tolkien fan for over 40 years, having first read The Fellowship of the Ring at 15, I find much of the criticism disheartening. Many seem fixated on political grievances, deriding the film for featuring a female protagonist and tossing around terms like "Mary Sue" or "girl boss" without substance. Worse yet, a large portion of this backlash appears to come from people who haven't even watched the film.

Complaints about the film being "unnecessary" are equally flimsy. If Rogue One, a beloved Star Wars film, could spring from a single line in A New Hope, why can't we have an equally enriching exploration of Helm Hammerhand's story? And as for criticisms about the runtime of 2 hours and 15 minutes-it's baffling, considering how many of us happily binge 8 to 10 hours of a streaming series in one sitting.

In summary, this film is a labor of love and a welcome addition to Tolkien's world. It enriches the lore, delivers compelling characters, and offers stunning visuals and music.

I am not a LOTR die hard - I like the movies and have read the books, but far from an expert or a fanatic. I like a good anime and have seen many, but again not a true fan.

I can see how if you feel into one of the above camps firmly( and for sure if you fell into both) this could be something you LOVED or something you despised.

To me looking at it as a one off, isolated story with ties to things I have heard and seen I actually felt made the whole experience quite enjoyable. The soundtrack was awesome and character development was fantastic, the story kept you in and the animation was incredible, it was a fusion of these two worlds in a really cool way.

My only complaint was the middle section does start to feel very very very long - but overall enjoyable and quality and different and worth the watch.

Personal (extremely biased) rating: 1-2/10 Normalised rating: 4-4.5/10 maybe

I went to see the movie with a perspective of it being a fan fiction, already knowing about the 'out of lore' storyline. But this one is worse, there is no respect nor effort put into the film to make it meet the line of 'good movies'. With multiple scenes and dialogues mirroring or referring back to the original triology (especially to the Two Towers and Eowyn scenes here and there), it makes this film nothing but a mere parody to the original ones. Some of those was even inserted for no reason at all. The fighting made no sense. The dialogue for Helm is okay, I would say it's a good try. However, the dialogue for Hera is like something non-native English write in their assignment to avoid grammatical error; too simple, very basic and not royal-like at all. The graphics and visuals are almost terrible, floaty with little interaction between characters and environment, if not at all. For some occasions, random 3D modellings were put in out of nowhere with no effort to blend them in whatsoever. Even for anime, this is very sloppy, carelessly produced. Some scenes, the resolution and frame rate of background and its components were smoother and more refined than the main character, which is ridiculous.

Overall, it's an okay movie to pass your time, if and only if you haven't watched or known LOTR or Middle Earth before, and you have excess money laying around. For fans, I don't recommend you see the movie.

As an enthusiast of mature feature-length animation, I was excited to see how the Tolkien fantasy universe would translate to this medium. Unfortunately, the results were a mixed bag.

My initial concerns about the female lead potentially leading to a "girl boss" trope were alleviated, as her character's sex wasn't a focal point. The music and animation were impressive, with visually pleasing landscapes and intense battle scenes.

However, the story fell short. It lacked emotional depth and epicness, leaving me distracted at times. The antagonist's motivation for revenge felt hollow, and the impact of character deaths was underwhelming.

While fans of animation may enjoy it, it's not a must-watch.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is a visually stunning animated prequel, but it does leave me with mixed feelings. The focus on Hera, Helm Hammerhand's daughter, is interesting, but unfortunately, she feels a bit underdeveloped. Tolkien didn't give much detail on her role, and it shows here. It's hard to form any strong emotional connection with her or her brothers, the heirs to King Helm, because they're just not fleshed out enough. That said, King Helm himself absolutely slays-his character and the epic battle sequences really shine. Overall, it's a fun ride, but it struggles with depth in its characters, especially the ones we're supposed to care about the most. Still, if you love the world of Rohan, it's worth watching for the visuals and action alone.

As a lotr big fan (reading the history books of tolkien) i can only say i am actually amazed.

I never expected a spin off movie to hit the spot. Being afraid of people destroying the words and text of tolkien and making it a extra extra thing here, thing there. War of the rohirrim actually stayed to the right story line. It felt like listening to a well read story book. With maybe sometimes weird 2d effects but after sometime lovely armor, effects and cute interaction. I felt with the story and wanted to keep looking. Eventhough i knew what was gonna happen i bit my lip and plucked my fingernails.

I can watch a lot more of these spin of anime story books stories.

Love !