My time and money could be spent better!

Rating: 5/10 (17 June 2016)

Full disclosure: I am not a gamer, and never have played this Warcraft game before, and I am indifferent to the original story or this game itself, etc. I evaluate and review this movie as a standalone movie itself, not based on how well or badly it follows the original game.
You have a slow and boring weekend, and say to self what I can do to make it a little bit better? Let's go and watch a movie! And you choose this movie based on the beautiful visuals and CGI scenes that you have seen in the trailer. And 30 minutes into the movie and you realize you could have more fun if you had staid at home and watch your favorite TV series from Netflix again! This is pretty much what happened to me!
I have to admit that CGI work was great. The Orcs were designed and created very beautifully. It was fascinating to watch them. I won't be surprised if this movie wins awards for its visual effects. But the weak story line and character development let you down and ruins this beautiful visual effects for you. Again, I am not a gamer and do not care what the original story line in the game was. What I can tell is that the story line was weak, and this story line was implemented even weaker!
Spoiler alert:
===== It seems that there was supposed to be a chemistry created between Anduin Lothar and Garona. But the chemistry felt so forced. It never felt real or organic, we, the viewers, were just supposed to accept that yes, these two are now in some sort of love. I am not sure it was because of bad acting, bad directing, or bad story line and character development that the chemistry and love between them never felt real.
Garona was a captive, a prisoner. But all of sudden she became a right hand of king, who everyone trust and she started to ride along the king and roam around freely. when the guardian was weak and left on his bed to rest, the king had asked Garona to stay by his bed and keep an eye on him. I mean come on, the Guardian is arguably the most important figure in the kingdom to stand against the enemy and then you ask an alien who you captured awhile ago to take care of him? There is no one else in the kingdom to be with the Guardian and to keep an eye on him?
Ben schnetzer played khadgar. But I never could accept him as a wizard, he struck me as stable boy in the kings castle, not a person who possesses special powers. I would blame this on 1- bad casting, 2- questionable acting,and 3- unsuitable makeup and hairstyle. He looked like a clueless chubby boy, not an intelligent, smart wizard!
Despite the fact that the special effects were great, but the production design for some locations were were armature and questionable. There was a scene that the king and his solders are leaving the capital o go for war, and they are marching through the city. It looked like that the city location and buildings were designed and created by cardboard. Of course very few movies go to the extend of physically building real building and locations. However, the scene and houses shouldn't be this much obviously cheap! I was laughable.
The movie looked good when you are watching the Orcs and the CGI parts. But when it switches to humans, it falls flat. You could feel more connected with Orcs than with the humans.
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Don't get me wrong. I do not expect a complex story line from a movie such as Warcraft. I just need a simple, consistent, believe (based on the rules of the movie itself) story line. Warcraft had the budget and potentials to be a nice popcorn movie. But there were multiple story line, acting and casting problems there were distracting you from relaxing and enjoying this summer action flick. The movie was a disappointment, and When the movie ended, the few people that were in the theater rushed to the exit doors to get the hell of there ASAP.
People, you can spend your time and money much much better!