Sure I've painted a couple of miniatures and played some Dawn of War, but other than that my knowledge of the Warhammer 40k universe is pretty limited to say the least. I watched the movie in hope of maybe learning a thing or two, since it seems like an extremely rich and well crafted universe. But instead of answers, I'm left with a hundred new questions. Like why is the emperor so divine? Why would anyone build a shrine/temple on an uninhabited planet? What is Chaos and what do they want and why? Why is the hammer "sacred" or "special", and if it's so powerful why doesn't everyone wield one? What did the guy with the white armor extract from the dead bodies and why? Etc.
My guess is that humans have become some kind of religious fanatics that go around space building churches on empty rocks. And maybe those super hammers are really difficult to manufacture. Or maybe only the "worthy" may have one (this would be even more stupid). Anyway, my point is that people who know nothing or little about 40k will probably have a very hard time making sense of any of this.
The quality of the CGI is OK in some areas and abysmal in others. The armors of the marines are the highpoint of the movie. They look great. Textures, lightning and shadow effects, lots of details etc, all comes together perfectly to make them look really cool and bad ass - As long as they don't move. Animations are terrible and make these huge, intimidating war machines appear light as feathers. This breaks the magic throughout the entire movie. Head/face models are extremely poor and makes all the characters look like old, old men. The fire effect from the flamethrower is so bad it ruins every shot it's in.
None of this matters though, since this is a small budget movie made for fans and fans only. Everyone else will probably not be as forgiving and ultimately disappointed as there is neither story nor special effects to entertain.
My guess is that humans have become some kind of religious fanatics that go around space building churches on empty rocks. And maybe those super hammers are really difficult to manufacture. Or maybe only the "worthy" may have one (this would be even more stupid). Anyway, my point is that people who know nothing or little about 40k will probably have a very hard time making sense of any of this.
The quality of the CGI is OK in some areas and abysmal in others. The armors of the marines are the highpoint of the movie. They look great. Textures, lightning and shadow effects, lots of details etc, all comes together perfectly to make them look really cool and bad ass - As long as they don't move. Animations are terrible and make these huge, intimidating war machines appear light as feathers. This breaks the magic throughout the entire movie. Head/face models are extremely poor and makes all the characters look like old, old men. The fire effect from the flamethrower is so bad it ruins every shot it's in.
None of this matters though, since this is a small budget movie made for fans and fans only. Everyone else will probably not be as forgiving and ultimately disappointed as there is neither story nor special effects to entertain.