Good movie but grossly overrated

A lot of fun.

A different way of telling a story

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

I wasn't aware that this movie existed until I had already played through Dragon Age: Inquisition multiple times. I have also played through each of Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II multiple times, enjoying all three thoroughly.I can tell from reading the other reviews that even the other DA fans watched this without the lore from Inquisition, which is understandable as this came out beforehand. Cassandra is a major character in Inquisition, and some of the other reviewers objections are explained in that game.I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, despite some minor issues.There were a few small errors in lore, mostly in the introductory speech. These weren't all that important and didn't really bother me, except for the inclusion of a specific enemy type that other reviewers have already pointed out.Cassandra's abilities are exaggerated to the point of being a superheroine, but this is an anime of a video game, so I don't really see that as a problem. In any case, Cassandra is one of the greatest warriors in the Dragon Age universe, so her exploits are not completely out of the question.Overall, the action and the story are compelling and well paced. The animation was a bit jarring at first, but I quickly got used to it and thought that the fight scenes were exceptionally well done. The final climax is pretty epic, and the resolution leads nicely into the events of Inquisition.If you're a fan of the Dragon Age series, and Cassandra in particular, then do yourself a favor and watch this without getting caught up on one or two minor errors. If you know nothing about Dragon Age, but like a good action movie with a righteous heroine, then I imagine you'd enjoy it as well.

This movie is for Dragon Age fans. It's for people who are tired of Kirkwall, who want to see more of the DA universe, and can't wait for Dragon Age III.If you watch this without any previous knowledge of the games, you'll most likely get bored after a while. The story's kinda dumb and predictable, dialog and voice-acting is over-the-top at times. Graphics are decent but won't win any awards.But if you played the games and like the DA universe, the standard reviewing pros and cons don't really matter. You'll be like 'wow, that's that kind of monster I used to kill a lot of' and 'I wonder if any of these characters will appear in DAIII'.So it's true that this movie is pretty mediocre, but still it's nice to see new adventures from Thedas. Bioware has already announced that there won't be any more DA2 content, and DA3 is still a long ways to go, so this movie is perfect to pass the time while we wait.Also, it's set in Orlais, where DA3 will supposedly be set, so it stands to reason that there will be some overlap, also this is just speculation on my part.

So first I'd like to start with saying that I've not played the games and I will not compare the movie to them. The movie wasn't bad but it wasn't really that good either.Graphicaly it was done very well .The animations were top notch and even though they might seem strange in the beginning (atleast the faces) you very soon fall in love with the style. the atmosphere was amazing as well but ... that's just about it. Those were the good sides of the movie. Now for the bad part. The story was nothing special in fact it was very generic and clichéd and unoriginal. The voice acting wasn't that bad , the dialogs were pretty simple and there weren't really any lines to remember from the movie.There were a lot of goofs such as different placing of the characters and different lenght of the surrounding objects or distances. As a conclusion , the movie wasn't that bad but it was also not a great movie that would be remembered very long or even at all. It's interesting to see the animation style but the rest is nothing special.Kind of disappointing actually because of the cliché plot .

I will try to make a point here, I'm not an English speaker but i will do my best. As a big r.p.g. game fan, from Baldur's Gate till Dragon age Origins, I have to say that i didn't like this movie. I didn't expected much, the animation is OK, and the voices are somehow realistic. But the rest is a huge flaw, specially the characters and the story. Let me give you an example: Mages in this movie don't use magic to fight.... they fight hand to hand against knights!! Another example are the enemies, like the Ogres and Golems which are shown barely weak , slow(ogre) and fragile. I seriously doubt that the people involve in this movie knew the characters types and the context.