Shocking - if you never played the game you will find this unbearable

Rating: 3/10 (5 June 2016)

As a former player of WoW, Reign of Chaos + Frozen throne I definitely recognised before any official announcements of the movie that there was potential for a great set of films from the universe mostly from the story I saw in the old real time strategy game of the early 2000s, therefore I see it as a wasted opportunity but Im not a fan to the point were I care, what does annoy me is reading positive reviews from something which is clearly bad as water is wet.
I'm not worked up about any kind of plot changes or unfaithfulness, I wouldn't have noticed, I didn't recognise the story so i just went in with the eyes of someone who was somewhat familiar with the universe from having played those games some years ago.
The visuals were good enough and I was impressed by some of it in a weird way, however I think they obsessed over trying to make the orcs and cities look EXACTLY like the art-style in the game and it really does suffer for this in my opinion and surely for anyone who isn't into the games at all because it looks very plastic. I am not a LOTR fan particularly but that even though its like 15 years older on a lesser budget looks way better.
The unforgivable with this film is that it fails at inducing any kind of emotion or excitement, I did not care about anyone and felt no type of way at any of the plot revelations, my emotions were flat throughout, I laughed a couple of times at just how bad some of the dialogue was, the film although not a comedy tries and fails at being funny a couple of times I rolled my eyes at how unsubtle, embarrassing and box-tickingly redundant it was.
The plot is not that complicated to follow, the film does a poor job of explaining who anyone is, you are just left with your basic; wizard dude, evil traitor wizard dude,rogue type love interest, gnarly orc wizard dude and so on that is the extent of the development, why we should care about 2d characters with zero personality failing to generate any intrigue in there backstory, motives,who these people are, I will forgive a shallow or clichéd plot if there is interesting chemistry and characters but this film has literally no saving graces.
Really they could have summed up the entire plot of the movie in a 5-10min narrated introduction and cut out the majority of it moved on to something more interesting, it just abruptly ends and I was honestly thankful but this isn't a complete story and it doesn't warrant 2 hours
the dialogue was excruciating very cringe inducing, The acting was horrible, a few par/workman performances, nobody stole the show or stood out particularly, Patton was probably the best of a bad bunch, possibly because she is a babe even as an orc, I did not buy the love story and I really didn't care either but I think she did OK with such terrible writing and direction. Some of these actors where abysmal though, god damn this faux Shakespeare olde English clichéd, witless garbage.
We have seen it before, we have seen it done better, boring waste of time, I would recommend this for people who like loud noises, people who I wanted to trick into wasting there time for my own amusement (nobody) and 12 year old players of the games. This is action packed so if you like computer generated fantasy action with no weight behind it then I am simultaneously jealous of your low threshold for entertainment and concerned for your well being.