Mediocre

Rating: 5/10 (3 June 2016)

I am a hardcore Warcraft fan, my first RTS game was in fact Warcraft Orcs and Humans that i bought in my first visit to the US in 1998, followed by Warcraft 2 and all the other Warcraft games (including World of Warcraft), so this review is coming from someone who knows and appreciates the Warcraft world and lore.
Now, i am not going to spoil anything nor am i going to bash the movie for going with something new (outside of the original lore, something you can see just by watching the trailers) i am going to speak of what i felt and experienced while watching the movie yesterday.
The CGI and the effects were the pinnacle of the movie, never has magic been so well executed on screen, it was fantastic and at the same time not unrealistic at the point you could not accept its existence. The Orcs were very well done (except for Durotan, in my opinion, who was "humanized" too much) and you could actually believe they could be in the same frame as human actors.
Unfortunately, taking aside what i just said in this review, the rest of the movie is very disappointing to say the least. The story goes so fast that it created a long list of cons. The first one is that i could not feel immersed in the movie, it felt that everything was going so fast with the plot that i never felt like i was captivated by it, everything felt so forced because it had to happen so fast. You know you are not immersed in a movie when you are aware and concerned while watching it of how late it is or how long has it been going for. Like for an instance, in the latest Captain America movie i was so connected to what was going on screen that i disconnected myself from reality during that time, i did not care how late it was or the time i would get home, all i cared about was the movie. The Warcraft movie never had that effect on me.
Another flaw caused by how fast they advance the plot is that i could not feel connected or found myself caring about the characters. Their dilemmas, their problems, their hopes, their victories, it meant nothing to me. The characters have little to no background and become like fictional distant people who you can't care enough about what happens to them. Like when Gandalf falls in Moria at the first LOTR movie, i actually felt sorry for him and his friends, when Aragorn picked them up and the sadness was palpable. In Warcraft i couldn't care less about who lives or dies, you just don't get to know the characters well enough to care for them.
Last but not least, i found the acting on some characters to be very poorly executed. For an instance, the Lothar character, i felt like i was watching Ragnar Lodbrok if he had been born in Azeroth. The actor acted exactly like he does on vikings and i, personally, don't feel that Lothar and Ragnar have the same type of character or act the same way. The other characters felt like they were gray, they had little to no personality. The ones that escape from that are Khadgar, Durotan, Draka, Gul'dan, Ogrim and Blackhand. The rest of the characters (and there are a lot of them, believe me), are all sub par, with mediocre acting at best.
In conclusion, the movie have awesome CGI and it does a great job translating the magic and fantasy from the game to the screen but it does a terrible and awful job in telling the story, you feel like they did a 2 hour film containing 8 hours worth of information, like you are watching a movie been played with fast forward, with no room for character or plot development.