Warcraft, great movie but has a few plot point issues.

Rating: 6/10 (16 June 2016)

For those who have read through book 3 The Last Guardian by Author Jeff Grubb they will immediately see the connection to the main Warcraft movie story line. As someone who has read through the books and played the games I have to admit that I was very surprised that Blizzard OK'ed the script that was given for the movie. There were several very important plot points that simply needed to be portrayed in a clearer light to the audience and those plot points just were not clear enough to be understood. I have even read the books and I barely caught a glimpse of the four most important plot points of how the orcs and the humans came into contact with each other, it was very hard to catch it but there was some basic explanation as to those points, but still 3-4 of those points were completely unexplained as well as others but all of those points should have been the highlights of the movie and they were barely noticeable and therefore the movie ultimately made very little sense to the audience.
#1 There was no explanation that Medivh was the last of the guardians of Tirisfal.
#2 There was no explanation of the purpose of the guardians of Tirisfal. I'll provide a brief synopsis: Essentially there was only one guardian at a time. They were chosen by the Council of Tirisfal and they were imbued with powers from all members of the Order of Tirisfal, becoming extremely powerful mages in their own right. They were magically empowered to secretly fight the Burning Legion and other demons wherever they appeared on the world of Azeroth.
#3 Magna Aegwynn who was Medivh's mother was the previous guardian of Tirisfal. She vanquished Sargeras the most powerful of the Demon Lords, or so she thought. It was one of the greatest of all the known battles between the Guardians of Tirisfal and the Burning Legion. Magna Aegwynn was with child (Medivh) when she thought she had killed Sargeras but with all the power his dying body Sargeras possessed the child in her womb with what was left of his evil soul.
None of these first 3 points were explained in the movie, these were probably the most important things required to explain how the orcs came over from Draenor, but nothing...?
Other important plot points that were not explained very well at all in the movie:
#1 Khadgar was Medivh's understudy and had been for a long time, months, possibly years, but all you get in the movie is that Khadgar went to Karazhan (Medivh's home) with Lothar, all you can tell in the movie is that this was the first time Khadgar and Medivh had met and it could be considered the first time even according to the book but they had a much more extended relationship in the book after this event, this was not portrayed at all in the movie.
#2 Over Medivh's lifetime the influence of Sargeras soul partly corrupts him time after time and he secretly helped Gul'dan, and essentially provided Gul'dan with the knowledge of how to build a portal which would allow him and his fellow Orcs to enter into Azeroth.
This was very poorly hinted upon when Khadgar found the book that the dark spirit lead him to in Karazhan. This was right before Medivh sneaks up on him and then cast that spell to hold Khadgar up on the wall and Medivh was yelling about how he was sneaking around spying on his work. Then Lothar comes in and says we need to go.
Also near the end of the movie just before Medivh was killed he was almost completely transformed into Sargeras. There was still no actual explanation for any of this transformation in the movie.
So again, as a person who has read the books and played through the games and also done much research on the history of things in the Warcraft Universe, I have to admit that there was a very poor job of story telling in the Warcraft movie. I very much hope that there is a sequel but there needs to be a much, much better focus on the important plot points so the audience can be invested in the story. As a player of the games I think there is definite value and enjoyment watching the movie but if you knew nothing regarding the Warcraft Universe and came to see this movie you would walk away wondering what you just saw. Simply put the focus of the story telling was not in the right place. The most important plot points were completely missed. Storytelling focus definitely needs to be worked on if there are plans to have a great series of movies from the Warcraft genre.
Many people may disagree with my review but if you ever read the books you'll see that what I have explained is basically correct according to the books, as well as the majority of the Warcraft lore.
But I want to give credit where credit is due. The incredible quality of CG is mind-blowing. Stormwind looks like a real life Stormwind the costumes are simply amazing. I love the detail that was put into everything the Orcs tribal look and how their weapons were made of parts of bones, the tusks, literally everything was taken into consideration when it came to costumes for Orcs and the Humans. The areas were so well thought out and look so realistic! Spell casting is simply awesome and looks so cool. Those who know the Warcraft Universe will love this movie.
As a total story line and plot point buff I seriously hope that there is an hour and a half of epic extended version released on the Blu- Ray/DVD edition.