Warcraft and its potential

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2017)

A lot of bad and good things happened in this movie. Some say it's a good movie, others say it's bad. And there are those who go to the extremes saying that it was horrible or that it was great. I think the truth lies in between: it had good sides and bad sides.
The first 10 minutes of the story were great. Portraying the orcs in a human-ish light is a really interesting idea and it worked throughout the entire movie. But, in contrast and as an irony, the humans were like robots. The way they were saying the lines was more like a child reading a sentence in a classroom. You could't feel that they meant what they were saying. And it wasn't entirely the actors fault. The entire script was lacking: fast paced and trying to hard to make the orcs more alive than the humans. There is a lack of character development in a sense that we can't even empathize with the dead of certain characters because we didn't see them enough throughout the movie. I haven't seen the relationship between Lothar and its son developed more than a few frames so i couldn't feel the connection between them. The same between Lothar and king Llane. Speaking of Llane Wrynn: Dominic Cooper does a great job in Preacher, but did horrible in Warcraft. Too many characters and too much story (part of it written in a bad way) in such a short time (2 hours) would inevitable hurt the movie. Maybe if they had allocated 3 or 4 hours, the story would had a slower pace and the characters would had enough time to build the connections between them. On the bright side of it, the cgi was amazing and the jokes made the entire room laugh. As for the filming frames i think could have been better. Some of them are great (like Lothar jumping from a high place and the griffon catching him or the fight with the golem) but other frames could be way better so they would reach that epic feeling that i (and many other persons) expected.
In conclusion, Warcraft movie was a somewhat enjoyable experience, especially if you see it with your friends and for the first time, but it didn't reached its potential. Perhaps the second one will repair this or, maybe it would be better to do a series out of it (though this will probably not happen due to the high cost...but seeing Game of Thrones gives me hope) or reboot it.
PS: I really wanted to not compare this movie with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but i can't help it. I saw the trilogy, the extended one (around 12 hours in total), more than 10 times and i can still watch it again. It's a great trilogy and i expected Warcraft to be if not the same, then bigger and more epic. I watched Warcraft once and i don't feel like watching it again.