This was a charming animation film, and it was great to see something from the Lord of the Rings world, I still think there are a lot of movies, series and stuff that can be made with the foundation that The Lord of the Rings has set and too many of us would like to see more.
The voice acting, graphics, motion, cinematography and all were good. Like I said it was charming, so charming that you might miss all these plot flaws scattered around the movie.
It was sad seeing these plot flaws, I really wanted this movie to succeed because like most of y'all I love The Lord of the Rings. But..
(1.) When Hera Was Captured: When Wulf returned as the Highlord of the Wild Men and sent some of his men out to capture Hera, some beast chased her deep into the woods, she was able to awaken a bigger beast that swallowed her assailant, and then the men came.
When the men came one of them simply put a small bag over Hera's head and lifted her up, placed her on his shoulder like a sack, and that was it. She was taken.
The sack had no magic or anything and Hera didn't put up any fight even though her hands were free and she had her sword by her waist.
That was crazy, because Hera is a warrior, she's been training since she was a child and it was clear she was good. So how could she have been captured just like that?
She didn't put up a fight or struggled like she was capable, she just acted like some helpless toddler. That was a shame and a huge plot flaw.
This same Hera got attacked by a man later on when her father left to face Wulf in the beginning of the war, she put up a fight and killed him.
There were countless other scenes where she fought and later on even defeated the Highlord Wulf in a duel, so is this the type of girl to be abducted without a fight? Just get her head covered with a bag and picked up unto the shoulder with her sword sheathed by her waist?
That was a shame, to put it mildly.
(2.) When they Retreated to Helm's Deep: After losing the war, Hera and her people ran into the fortress called Helms Deep. Just before they could all get in Wulf came with her captured brother. They stood in front of the fortress and Wulf held a knife to her brother's neck, he was going to kill him.
Wulf was accompanied by only two other men while all of Hera's people were present and archers were at the top. No one thought of telling the archers to shoot at Wulf to prevent him from killing her brother, instead Hera and her father stood there begging for his life.
After he was killed no one still thought of making the archers send arrows down to kill Wulf. It was too dumb, and that's being kind.
(3.) The Dumb Siege: That siege was also too dumb. These guys were in an elevated fortress and are besieged by an army just below them in the valley. They had archers but no one thought the archers should simply rain down arrows on the besiegers. That could have simply ended everything.
But no, they didn't shoot, they instead stayed on in fear complaining about how their supplies are finishing.
One archer shot an arrow once and it made everything even more dumb, like oh so you guys can shoot arrows, huh? And you've not been shooting all this while.
(4.) Opening the Door of Helm's Deep: Once Hera came out of Helm's Deep during the siege through some secret passage and her father had to save her from some cannibals. While there Wulf and his men came for them and they had to run to the gate of Helm's Deep.
On getting there the mechanism for opening the gate failed, so they had to try to open it with their hands by just pushing it open.
Her father succeeded in opening it to a good extent to let her get in. Wulf and his men saw him open it but still after he died and siege continued none of them tried to go to the door to force it open. Instead they continued the siege and kept trying to break in by building a tower.
How is it possible that they'll see that all the door needs is some good push and they never tried to go there and give it that good push?
At this point the story is hardly even worthy of criticism. Lol.
The End
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