Better than I thought it would be by far, thanks to the critics!

Rating: 8/10 (30 May 2016)

In a way I wasn't surprised that this movie got bad reviews from various critics , you have to somewhat invest or be invested in the story to fully understand what this movie is about. I've played Warcraft II and Warcraft III and World of Warcraft before but I've read plot and lore about Warcraft I just to understand all that is happening in the gamesequels which took me roughly 10 minutes btw. So Im no newcomer to this franchise. First of all, I was abit hyped about this movie until I read the bad reviews. It lowered my expectations a lot but as a fan of the games it was a "must see" for me. And boy do I wanna thank the critics, I had a very good time watching this movie with no or low expectations. Its no masterpiece, got some flaws and overacting but not half as bad as the reviews say. I think they were expecting a new LoTR which is totally moronic, even as a reference. Its like giving a Star Trek movie a bad review because it is not like Star Wars. Another issue with using LoTR as reference is because its lore is more well known than Warcraft, I guessed most critics have stumbled across Tolkien's work before they saw the movie adaption so when they say Warcraft is for the fans wasn't LoTR the same but with a much larger fanbase? Enough about that, not even gonna comment about GoT as reference, that is just crazy talk. This movie sets out to do the following as it is hopefully the beginning of the whole story: Introduce us to Azeroth, it does that fairly well but guess runtime slimmed that down abit. Get us to know the factions in this war, well Warcraft I is about the starting conflict between humans and orcs and I think it delivers, its mostly about survival in this movie but there are deeper motives which hopefully will be explained in sequels as in the game trilogy later on. The characters, here is the biggest flaw because of the runtime. The orcside is portrayed best but have less main characters to focus on and are more interesting while there are too many humans introduced and too little time to get attached (alliance hopefully buffed in director's cut patch if any). Lastly the story, it is as true as it can get in a 2 hour movie, hoping for director's cut to dive deeper in lore.
Its not a perfect movie, it got flaws but it doesn't make it as bad as the critics say, if not into warcraft lore but want to watch this, read up a little about the first warcraft game before you see it and you will get a better experience.