Good visuals but stunningly bad screenplay and amateur acting

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2016)

I went in with zero expectations, knowing that most game-inspired movies do poorly, but still had hope since it's Blizzard after all - and they're known for some pretty decent, large games - they wouldn't entrust their brand to some amateur.
And that's exactly what they've done. The screenplay is painfully bad: I'm imagining a bunch of guys sitting in a meeting room, brainstorming, and then shouting out random ideas and clichÃ© phrases, and then compiling them haphazardly into an incoherent screenplay.
The voice acting, I thought, was pretty well done for the most part. This went well with the pretty good CGI. The CGI was probably the best part of this movie. It didn't try to be too realistic and managed to preserve the "game" feel still melding the Warcraft world with the real world.
The acting by the human characters was horrible. This mixed with the terrible screenplay and the movie was utterly painful to watch. Some of the acting was alright (think minor characters in Game of Thrones), but the rest was face-palm inducing.
The overall idea and story is good, however. That's why I think this movie had so much potential, but sadly, all wasted due to crappy dialogue and crappy acting.
There are hints of a sequel. If they do decide to make a sequel, they should fire the director, the screenwriter, and specially Ben Schnetzer who plays one of the main protagonists. His acting was atrocious. Even a total amateur could've done a better job.