Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

asais If you came to learn about "free to play games", you will be disappointed. The title is misleading, this movie only covers one game, defense of the ancients and small group of teams in their efforts to win a million dollar prize. It doesn't even do this very well, it really just amounts to just the equivalent of a puff piece bio on each "athlete" you see on sports channels.You learn nothing about the games or why they matter. Strategies are only mentioned, nothing on screen demonstrates any of this, to a lay person, its just a confusing mish mash of random violence and button mashing. It fails to show why these "sports" matter or why anyone should care.Its a constant problem in this film, you are told things, but you aren't shown them.This film just doesn't cover any new territory. The idea of gaming as sport is not new, and coverage of south Korean star craft tournaments and the rest have been a thing for years, so there is nothing here that has not been covered before. The ratings are heavily skewed because steam heavily promoted this film on their service, and being that it was free and the peak number of simultaneous players for that game exceeds 500,000 each day, there are a lot of fans who are more than happy to just rate this thing a 10 just because they are grateful for the attention. Its why at this point 84% of the votes are a perfect 10, which this film is very far from being by any rational measure.Much better documentary films to watch are "King of Kong" or "Senna" or "Exit from the Gift shop", each gives you some insight into an area of expertise even if you weren't a fan of racing/donkey kong/or graffiti art, each film brings the viewer into that world, and gives them an understanding of why it matters and why they should care. You watch "King of Kong" and you feel some understanding of how they play and what they have to do to be that good, and a few of their strategies. In this film however, you just constantly told these people are the best and that they have strategy, but none is on display. When they decide to show gameplay, its the most generic and context free footage possible, zoomed in to show action, not strategy, for a non dota 2 gamer it has no meaning, then they take it a step further and tart up that action by rerendering in CG.The title of the film is just misleading. Nothing about the free to play model is covered, this is merely coverage of a few teams playing for a million dollar prize and not a very interesting one at that. Tournaments for games have been going on for over a decade now, starcraft tournaments in south Korea being the most prominent, and this has been covered in countless other "video game" documentaries and such. This isn't new territory.

Lucas Dant Amazing production from valve, a great documentary showing how games are changing life's of several people out there.The movies fallow's 3 guys, showing all that games and the E-sports market could do for their life's.A heart touching, beautiful and emotional movie that can be watched by nerds or even the grandpas...At first, me as a gamer was expecting a OK movie, but the value put in the production was so big, that i really got caught unprepared for this.And this movie really show things that the population is'nt ready for it yet the new market of athletes with brains, skills, determination and strategy.Games are there, constructing a new legion of fans that i'll be proud of being part

munkhuu_tolife Through the whole movie I was impressed, by all meanings I thought doing things people they really love is what you really have to do. This movie is based on three professional gamers their life, their fate for taking the path to play on!Made by Valve this is truly impressive they just gone into our head heart whatever to make entire audience feel that this feeling where you become so passionate about, whole movie I felt something that is hard to explain by words. It's just your life and you decide how to live it.And there's our guys who chose way of gaming, how they struggle to get accepted by their family and people, how they try hard to get money for living, how they go over the win or lose. This is the documentary that we're gonna talk about boom-start of E-Sports, as said in movie they (Professional players, Dendi, hyhy, Fear as main) will be the ones who we will be talking about. When gamer becomes a father, when gamer becomes a mother and then everyone takes it little bit serious or more calm that will be the golden age of gaming!As for the production making of this film was truly amazing. They had this beautiful old videos about their life and photos everything being greatly edited and also cinematic gameplays coming in when some hero gets killed or kills other which I found truly amazing it is documentary you don't show every game and they made it so great at all the parts where you get emotionally pumped up. Also the music I don't really know who did this but it was amazing perfectly made exactly for the moments exactly for the feeling you are gonna take.This was best documentary on almost every documentation ever made.

jotanrockz After watching this documentary, I can't help but find myself realizing that this movie was about so much more than the game it is based on. Following the life and struggle of these three exceptional players and people caught me off guard and often had me feeling sentimental. Valve did an excellent job of telling their stories without over promoting their company/game. I found that they chose the perfect three people to base this documentary on. On one end you see the success of Danil, the struggle of Benedict, and the drive of Clinton. Three completely different people with completely different lives and different stories. The one thing in common was the struggle and the pressure they all lived. Once again Valve did an excellent job of really highlighting how great these three truly are. I recommend this to any viewer who just wants to watch a great documentary.This is more than just a game.