Purely for fans

Rating: 6/10 (10 June 2016)

For over a decade I have waited for something like this movie. Blizzard has been teasing us gamers with great games and short animations to display a great lore and story. This movie now brings forth a more lengthy viewing of Warcraft's great lore! Too bad they decided to put humans in it instead of just GDI.
The story of course took many shortcuts compared to the lore. I would've liked to see this split into multiple movies, much like LOTR, to actually show the background of how Medivh became corrupted (Sargeras) instead of just 'He wanted power!' Lothar would've been a more lovable character if his family and story would've been brought out more, the elves, dwarfes etc. given more screen time.
It's a shame the movie was so short packed with so much. I felt nothing for Anduin Lothar when his son gets killed by Blackhand. His story was not built up at all. The thoughts about that I had: 'Oh he had a son, now he doesn't. /care'.
They showed us Ironforge, Stormwind, Dalaran, Goldshire, Kharazan so fast! I would've loved to see way more of Dalaran and it's mages, Kharazan with it's secrets, Ironforge with it's depths..
I'm a true fan of Warcraft, been playing the games since I was a little boy. This movie was supposed to be great and I loved parts of it, especially the orcs. The GDI of course is clearly visible in some scenes (mostly background and Gul'dan) which lowered my enthusiasm during the movie. Too bad the main characters both male and female just sucked so bad.
But I loved Gul'Dan character. So awesome! Pure evil! The orcs were fantastic. Human characters, not so much. Riddled with bad actors their expressions, speech, everything dulled the pure feeling of awesomeness I had for this movie.