The main character is played well. The Witcher as he's called is the over used stoic loner cast out who slays monsters for money. Drifting without purpose and given all sorts of Shakespearean omens without Shakespeare's gift of wordsmithing or crafting of an idea.

One of the things that makes Fantasy, Fantasy is that you craft a whole other word. New rules, new physics, social dynamics, new ideas. This movie is one cliche after another and doesn't even make the slightest effort to craft culture. The different races are just the same people & culture with pointy ears or other minor cosmetic differences. The combat is so hokey that there's no suspension of disbelief. No realism. It's Krull level of comic book action. The good guys in silver shiny armor, the bad guys in black armor which is 40s western movie black hat white hat kinda thing. The dialog reminds me of 30s and 40s movies, it's that unsophisticated and flat. It's probably based on comic book which basically is a poor imitation of Conan the Barbarian. The series comes off as a low budget Conan rip off. Pity since some good acting talent is being wasted on such a terrible preachy script. The supporting actors are mostly 2nd rate, which further damages the dialog. The wooden way they robot through their lines makes those lines all the worse. The costuming is utterly unrealistic but at least visually appealing and offers the only originality in the 5 or 6 episodes I watched before I gave up on the series. I gave it a 5 as there are at least moments where it's entertaining and the visuals are sometimes extremely good. The special effects seems to consist mostly of blurring scenes and are very poor. Though apparently almost no CGI is involved. The plot is a in congruent mash of previous Fantasy movies with a healthy dose of PC preaching at every turn. When a character dies, it's pretty much a relief.

I might have been able to put up with the plot and poor special effects if the action scenes were not so wooden and the wizardry not so hokey. The battle scenes are like a 3rd graders vision of ancient battles. Solders run up in a mass mob and hack their way through a food of wood and iron with swords in seconds kind of hokey battle scenes. No siege engines, not efforts to scale the walls, no defenders raining arrows and rocks on the defenders, Just a wizard blocking a gate. Though they did do some good special effects on the monsters.