A Solid Adaptation! 10/10

Rating: 10/10 (19 June 2016)

Hi guys, this is my first review and probably the only one on IMDb for another long time because this is the only movie I have been waiting really long to enjoy and to be honest, I'm really excited to share my opinion with you guys. To let you guys know and be genuine, I only either absolutely love or hate a film, so I will either gives it a ten (10) or a zero (0) score. To begin with, I'm a Warcraft III player and never play any other Blizzard products. Yet I did do a lot of "die hard" research on Warcraft I lore and love to see how it'd be transfered to the big screen, as if it had been similar to my imagination. It's not that big, not that long, not that complex to which my expectation based upon but in a different way, simpler. This make me stumbled during the experience but still satisfied somehow. The movie is very solid indeed. It can't be executed any better for me, if so it's just a different way to tell the story. Let's begin with the characters which deadly interested me. Most actors and actresses did their job fairly well portraying the characters, with CGI or not. Some characters really stand out as my favorite that really interests me only after watching the film, in particular Lothar, his son and Khadgar which i didn't care about pre-film and knew little of. They make every major characters very typical and characteristic for this fantasy flick, which is excellent. The characters are fine as they are according to what I have read in the original story. Along with the characters, the story as i said is very simple although it flows and paces sweetly and eventually focused on the main characters and Warcraft I story-line. It felt like if it does not tolerate the newbies to the Warcraft universe as they were dragged right into the atmosphere of the First War without any background. Still they would be virtually impressed by their eyes and ears because of the terrific visual and sound effects and should immediately immerse themselves with "The Beginning" of the epic Warcraft. The story moves fast from scenes to scenes at first as part of an easy encapsulated introduction to the warcraft universe. It then gives you some background checks, an alternate storytelling with additional cool scenes then builds up its characters relationship, their motives and the confrontation between orcs and humans together submerged within the epic battle scenes. Afterwards the story connected our emotion and push us up to a high level with multiple amazing emotional climaxes. There're a lot of alternatives to the lore but all finally concludes "The Beginning" with the simplest, most shocking, bad-ass and arousing way possible by and awesome cliffhanger. Overall the story has no twists at all and is a lot shorter than I expected, and that's apparently how "The Beginning" of Warcraft should be implemented. The filmography is just relevant for usual fantasy filming with great sceneries photographing in front of our eyes along with some sick battle sequences. About the battles, for me it's again short but sick and hell does it has a bunch of "warcraft"-ish feeling. I can't say much about the visual effects, the soundtrack or the setting with all those big buildings, plastic rusty equipments and huge landscape. For me personally, the effects and CGI are extremely smooth; the vast landscape seems just like Warcraft and the simple makeup as well as cartoonist gears and buildings and the soundtrack by the legendary Ramin Djawadi all together just put me on a fictional dream and basically do justice to the Warcraft universe . Thus I want to emphasize that this cool effortless Warcraft version of a film contradicts almost all of my expectations but nevertheless it drives me crazy in a positive direction for the movie itself and also its sequels. I just want to salute the director and the producers whoever they are for their audacious attempt to bring such a fantastic story to life. For me, there's one word to describe this work in a nutshell: "Solid" and I rate it 10/10.