Could work for some

Rating: 5/10 (12 July 2016)

Maybe it's just because my expectations going in were so low, but honestly I had a pretty good time in Warcraft. Now look, I'm not going to try and convince you that it's a "good" movie, but as a man who's been playing Warcraft since way back in the Orcs & Humans era of the mid-nineties, I did have a pretty good time. It's dumb, it doesn't make a lot of sense, and it feels like there are tonnes of connective tissue cut out from between scenes of "cool stuff". But there is a certain dedication to the format I admire, and the animation was (on occasion) pretty damned impressive. I don't know that this will be one for the movie going audience at large, but for fans of the video game, and for devotees of the Fantasy genre looking for some new blood, I can give Warcraft a soft recommendation as a not-bad-first-step.