Better than 'Hobbit' and 'Avatar'

Rating: 9/10 (3 June 2016)

A great movie for anyone open to the fantasy genre. Expect to see the best visual effects of all-time on any medium. Full CGI, and yet a streamlined and awesome experience throughout.
Furthermore, the music score is incredible. Make sure to see it in cinemas with proper audio setups (had a specific Dolby cinema room at my viewing). The action and fighting scenes are horrifyingly awesome, add-in that no character is 'safe' (which is typically a flaw for 'hero-type' movies). Warcraft the Beginning transcends most fantasy films in almost every way.
While the whole movie was great, it gets overshadowed by a bad last twenty minutes. This part seemed incoherent, poorly edited and had an awkward 'surround'/talkative scene.
Other rightly bad remarks: There is only one obvious bad guy. The theme and 'message of the film' is all over the place: "light from darkness, darkness from light"? "Zero hope gives great courage"? Add in some dragged scenes where the point was already made, whereas some scenes ended too quickly. Perhaps it was difficult to change scenes as it is CG heavy, and too costly and time-intensive. Finally, this gets enlightened by bad dialogue with typical fantasy lines & clichés - get creative you lazy Hollywood fantasy screenwriters!
Despite all the above, this is fantastic, awesome, fast-paced, epic cinematic experience. Definitely for fans, and for anyone open to fantasy.
9/10
In response to the critics: If it was released during the 'Christmas Period' perhaps they would be more open to fantasy films. Clearly this is better than 'The Hobbit' or 'Avatar', but of course not 'Lord of the Rings'. So, knowing it is not a all-star movie, what do critics do? They ridicule it to make a story and get a lot of views.