Of Mages, Malice, and Monstrous Mayhem

Henry Cavill is a pretty big man, so he can pull off morphing into The Witcher by just having his skin get whiter and the black veins popping up on his skin. Unfortunately the actor who was picked to be the primal first Witcher is a lot smaller.

When he Witches out, the most ridiculous and pathetic CGI is used to make him "Hulk Out" and get super-muscular. One side gets bigger than the other, and he gets a Quasimodo hunchback effect. Even worse, the skin is all lumpy so they manage to make him look ridiculous and gross at the same time.

He also loses his humanity and starts tearing apart the good guys too. Fortunately, his girlfriend is there to sing to him, and bring him down. Once again the idea that he becomes human when he calms down is a direct rip-off of The Incredible Hulk. Apparently the people that wrote this crud never read or watched The Witcher, but they are fans of The Incredible Hulk.

Besides the awful CGI Hulking Out, the dragon villain was sad and lame. Even the Sy-Fy Channel can put together better sub-par CGI than this.

The actual story was just beyond poor. The main evil wizard seem to have more in common with the Wishmaster or Hellraiser movies than the original Witcher TV series. It felt like the writers took from Hellraiser, Wishmaster, and The Incredible Hulk and put something together that was lame. The Witcher TV series seems to have a mythos and back-story that was at least partly ignored.