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Pleasantly surprised by Gieferg's brainchild here!! As per my review for 'The Last Wish' Im going to say this may benefit from some atmospheric sound effects to compliment the additons of original Witcher musical musings, and some interlude screens fluffing out the narrative inevitably suffering from the heavy cutting.

I almost want to say this turns out like an open-ended dramatization of The Witcher 3 intro. Certainly this is true for parts of this movie. It is in fact though, quite a coherent playing out of events along the lines of the books (one trusts) tieing in with 'The Last Wish' really, really well. Its somewhat like one of those barely cobbled together fan-made (fittingly) productions that are more cosplay than proper film, only with full length.

In these fan-edits Gieferg does justice to the actors, and the production teams, and (lets say) reverently sets aside the mistellings of the Netflix saboteurs, in favour of a true Witcherish thread. Actually (spoiler alert) there is no Kaer Morhen, or any of that ruined, embellished stuff in this movie at all. 'Sword of Destiny' is the proper title indeed!!