A decent movie but there's a few things people need to understand regarding the lore and history of Warcraft.

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2016)

I've been reading a lot of the reviews and just finished up a few reviews in the chronological order. Some of the best reviews are some of the most recent ones. The googly eyed "Oh this is the best movie ever" 9-10 stars and even some of the 8 stars are pretty much pure crap and fan boy nonsense! As well as the ones that purely hate the game and immediately voted 1-2 and most of the 3-4 star votes because most of them know nothing about the story, they'll be eating their words by movie 3.
The movie was actually capturing only bits and pieces of the information and ended up rushing it all. I imagine they weren't sure if they were going to disappoint the fans by not getting all the parts in the story and they were also worried about not making the non game fans upset with too little story so they crammed it all in and it didn't work out so well
But I'm a fan I like running through Azeroth once in awhile but I'm an old guy and I actually enjoy reading about the fiction of it all in paperback mostly. I saw a few of the reviewers saying this is how it happened in the games and another few reviewers saying this is how it happened in the books. The fact is I played Warcraft nearly since it came out back in later end of 1994 on my old Packard bell MD-DOS computer. My old computer had windows 3.1 on it and it ran at 66 megahertz and that was amazing at the time. The point I'm trying to make is both reviewers angles are correct. The lore of Warcraft evolved over time though, Blizzard simply didn't know when they first made Warcraft Orcs vs. Humans back in 1994 that it was going to become the most successful game franchise in video game history. The story lines changed and evolved into bigger story lines over time. But rest assured there is a consensus, a solid story line now, a cannon per se of how things are now officially supposed to have happened. Although if you remember the original games they didn't happen exactly how they are now but none the less I read a lot. You'll understand as you get older, but the Blizzard's stamp of approval on the official story lines is widely available on the web.
us.battle.net/wow/en/game/the-story-of-warcraft/chapter1
For those interested in more lore and Warcraft history check out this page as well:
blizzardwatch.com/warcraft-lore-books-guide/
Overall I had to rate the movie down to 5, the story was not portrayed well at all. Truthfully, they needed to focus on only one or two key point issues and keep the audience invested in those issues as the main story line. Because the story has so many points of view and perspectives as well as situations that are occurring all at the same time, I think the best thing they could have done was to have focused on the story behind Medivh and his purpose in keeping Azeroth safe. As well as the fact that he was possessed before he was born by Sargeras' essence, or life force.
It would have been epic if they started the story at the final battle between Medivh's mother (Aegwynn) and the demon lord, or titan Sargeras, also hinting that Sargeras essence or life force survived and secretly possessed her womb. Then provided a lengthy explanation on who she was and what Guardians of Tirisfal were all about. Then they could have cut to Medivh's birth and explained that he was her successor. Then you would have the set up for a great story, as the audience would understand Medivh's great purpose and how he had his own huge struggle of overcoming Sargeras' possession of his mind/soul and how he eventually killed off his understudy's and eventually lost the battle to Sargeras and ended up contacting Gul'dan and providing him the means to enter Azeroth. Unfortunately, how it was done was simply sloppy and left the viewer trying to follow way too much story all at once with little to no explanation as to the purpose of what it was all about other than some strange monster like creatures were invading a previously somewhat peaceful world.
The CG was expected, but I felt it was nicely done and followed the World of Warcraft online game's locale very well. I still enjoyed it knowing the lore very well helped me to overlook much of the poor scripting and plot point choices.