This is Not The Game, Obviously. You are not prepared...

Rating: 6/10 (4 July 2016)

Well ACTUALLY, I suppose you are prepared. The film was highly done in cg, and not always well considering its not the 90's. Still it was nice and I was expecting to see it as I first began playing WoW ( World of Warcraft for anyone clueless).
The Dwarfs looked kinda sad, and were hardly in the film AT ALL! Which sucks because they are one of my favorite fantasy races.
The elves were pre Night Elf, as this is an earlier story in the mythos from a time before the Horde became an official faction, as of WoW. But hardly featured. This seems to take place more before the video games themselves even began in the mid 90's. Still a few alterations here and there, though only noticeable to a fan/ game player , the movie was not terrible.
I honestly felt at times however that I was watching the Viking television show, as Travis Fimmel played Lothar. Which could be good or bad as that show kicks ass! The acting on the part of the characters, whether Cg or not, felt too effortless, and I don't mean natural talent effortless. Facial expressions were always a little too puzzled or bland. But then there were a few mentions of a locale in the game world or the sight of a murloc calling to its kin. *shrugs *
At the very least it painted a quick picture of what lead to the world in the games as it has become. Leave it to Blizzard to capitalize on a franchise at the last minute, like a hoarder( not horde :P) selling food and water in a crisis AFTER people have died already. Not only will this be the FIRST in a series of films, but with the advent of the latest expansion for Wolrd of Warcraft in August, I just gotta shake my head at the brashness of the company.
As if they have not already made a ridiculous amount of of the franchise as a whole, let alone all of its properties and titles.
So have a drink, or smoke, or whatever and see it, fore twas a fair to decent film.
There's a storm coming, nay... a blizzard, and I shudder to think of all the money being drawn out of people by the cold hearted villains of this storm in years to come.