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Rating: 1/10 (30 June 2019)

Absolutely horrible. the only redeeming quality is some good CGI on the orc. Other than that EVERYTHING was terrible. this was like mortal kombat with better CGI. THE WORST DIALOGUE EVER. And the awful acting made the horrible dialogue sound even worse. there were so many times when the dialogue didn't even make sense. One person would say something, then the other person would respond in a way that has nothing to do with what the first person said. For example, "Where are we going" ... "We must fight as one" (end scene). If you don't fully pay attention you may let it slide. But if you do, you will notice the conversation does not flow at all like any conversation should. They just say what the movie wants them to say.
Another problem is that this movie tried to be primarily story-based. A movie like this really should have been a fun popcorn flick with good action and some funny banter between the characters. Instead, they tried to make this complex story that was so scattered and all over the place. And I didn't care about any of it. Why? Because it was useless. Why? Because the characters were useless. I didn't like any of them except the main orc character, and barely. All of the humans were pointless. So much bad acting.
I didn't even get to the worst part of the acting. IMO, Paula Patton is the worst popular actress in hollywood today. I have noticed this in many of her past movies. She makes the same face for everything. She furrows her brow, that's it. Regardless of the emotion, it's that face. All her lines sounded soooooo awkward. Her romance was SOOOOO AWKWARD. Completely forced. I think she also made me like Mission Impossible 4 less, and she was terrible in 2 Guns and Deja Vu.
Other than all the terrible things in the movie, I figured it would at least have some good war scenes, since it's called WARcraft. Nope. Not one action scene stood out to me. And there were barely any of them. This movie was SO boring. I kept thinking, can we please get this moving along. But no, the story... we need more story (sarcasm). The only cool scenes were the magic ones.
Adam was right on this one. I am baffled that so many users liked this movie. I thought maybe it was just a movie for the fans, but I don't even feel like there was that much from the games. plus even if it's for the fans, it wasn't entertaining at all. It was so bland and typical (1 viewing)