What can I say? The CGI makes criticized Final Fantasy look like brilliant and finished, but we all knew that already. The characters are shallow and have the personality of a rock, and power armor certainly doesn't help. Most of the time there's a group of identical marines (excluding the Captain and the Apothecary) wandering around. The movie starts slowly and the first half of the movie consists mostly of the new space marines playing macho and wandering aimlessly.
I tried to enjoy the movie by ignoring the CGI, but in some parts it rears its ugly head. Half of the movie the marines wander in a sandstorm because Codex Pictures didn't bother to model the environment, which is quite absurd as the movie was hyped to use the-state-of-the-art technology. In the only part where a Chaos Space Marine is seen without a helmet, it's a nasty sight. In a bad way. Sometimes the facial animation is frankly awkward, like in this poor Chaos Space Marine's case. Sometimes it seemed that they were aware of the lacking visuals and tried to "cover" it with excessive use of the smoke effect. Or then they just really love smoke.
I could also complain about the lore errors, prometheum not being gel, bolter rounds not exploding and Crozius shooting magic beams, but I spare you.
The movie had good parts, the story, as predictable as it was did entertain even though the pacing needed more attention. But hey, it's warhammer, and I doubt you expecting anything deep from the movie. Right? They did try hard. They tried to add 'thrill' to the movie with Chaos Marines whispering in the bushes and (unintentionally amusing) sudden face zooms. There were nice little details, like "thoughts for the day" flashing on the marine's visor screen.
While the CGI makes me wonder whether to laugh, cry, or take a blowtorch to my retinas, the audio content compensated it, if not totally, well. I've heard differing opinions about the voice acting. Some say it is good, a few say it is bad. But here I'd like to remind you that bad voice acting and voice acting that doesn't fit are two different things. I think the cast was chosen well, with one exception. Donald Sumpter did well as Pythol, even though his lines ranged from Captain Obvious to just downright hilarious. And sometimes he just sounded like an old man whining about his prostate which doesn't really match my image of a Space Marine. Music and voice effects, they were good, but nothing exceptional.
A bad movie? Nah. A good movie? Nah. After watching the movie, I'm still more or less sane, so I guess it's not a bad way to spent an hour. But still, would I pay 40$? No. If you expected the movie to be the messiah 40k movie the mankind has been waiting for, you're gonna be disappointed. But if you were like me, watching the trailers with zero expectations, it ain't a bad movie. Just don't expect too much.
I tried to enjoy the movie by ignoring the CGI, but in some parts it rears its ugly head. Half of the movie the marines wander in a sandstorm because Codex Pictures didn't bother to model the environment, which is quite absurd as the movie was hyped to use the-state-of-the-art technology. In the only part where a Chaos Space Marine is seen without a helmet, it's a nasty sight. In a bad way. Sometimes the facial animation is frankly awkward, like in this poor Chaos Space Marine's case. Sometimes it seemed that they were aware of the lacking visuals and tried to "cover" it with excessive use of the smoke effect. Or then they just really love smoke.
I could also complain about the lore errors, prometheum not being gel, bolter rounds not exploding and Crozius shooting magic beams, but I spare you.
The movie had good parts, the story, as predictable as it was did entertain even though the pacing needed more attention. But hey, it's warhammer, and I doubt you expecting anything deep from the movie. Right? They did try hard. They tried to add 'thrill' to the movie with Chaos Marines whispering in the bushes and (unintentionally amusing) sudden face zooms. There were nice little details, like "thoughts for the day" flashing on the marine's visor screen.
While the CGI makes me wonder whether to laugh, cry, or take a blowtorch to my retinas, the audio content compensated it, if not totally, well. I've heard differing opinions about the voice acting. Some say it is good, a few say it is bad. But here I'd like to remind you that bad voice acting and voice acting that doesn't fit are two different things. I think the cast was chosen well, with one exception. Donald Sumpter did well as Pythol, even though his lines ranged from Captain Obvious to just downright hilarious. And sometimes he just sounded like an old man whining about his prostate which doesn't really match my image of a Space Marine. Music and voice effects, they were good, but nothing exceptional.
A bad movie? Nah. A good movie? Nah. After watching the movie, I'm still more or less sane, so I guess it's not a bad way to spent an hour. But still, would I pay 40$? No. If you expected the movie to be the messiah 40k movie the mankind has been waiting for, you're gonna be disappointed. But if you were like me, watching the trailers with zero expectations, it ain't a bad movie. Just don't expect too much.