As a fan of WOW and Fantasy in general i was disappointed

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2016)

I had booked to go to eat at Chiquitos afer this movie. Mexican chain restaurants aren't my usual bag but at the cinema i went to it was either that or Frankie and Benny's and unfortunately they couldn't cater for my vegan wife so we were left with little choice. I mention this just so that you understand that when i started looking forward to the movie being over at around the halfway point it wasn't because i had a table at Claridges booked. All i had to look forward to was a fairly average chilli con carne, not something that normally puts me on the edge of my seat, although i can recommend their habanero chilli sauce.
As a fan of World of Warcraft and a lifelong lover of the fantasy genre i feel like i was primed to love this movie. Even so it just didn't do the business. The characters fulfilled functions but had no depth, the human cast didn't really have a lot of script to work with to engender any sort of emotional response and the orc's seemed cartoonish and contradictory in their nature. The movie jumped about a lot, the story line required a lot of leaps of faith and/or knowledge of WOW lore. It kinda put me in mind of that god awful dungeons and dragons movie they made a while back except much prettier (credit where it's due, the CGI is extensive and very well rendered).
All in all it was another fail in the video-game-as-a-movie genre. I'm surprised there are so many people raving about it in their reviews on here, maybe they had their Chiquitos before the movie and it seemed better by comparison.