Now this is a all-out fantasy film

Rating: Null/10 (26 October 2016)

This film makes me smile. I mean, when they announced they were going to make it, and especially after seeing the first trailer, I couldn't believe what I was witnessing. The Warcraft games are... such nerdy games. I mean, they feature all kinds of overblown fantasy races engaging in war eternal against one another, each of them extremely silly in a way that only geeks and nerds can really appreciate. And the film seemed to reflect that perfectly. Had the nerd culture really penetrated our society so thoroughly that a film like this could succeed.
Yes, yes it has. This film is exactly like the games. I mean sure, there's far more plot than in the games, it's not just battle scene after battle scene - thank the heavens - but it's still instantly recognizable and remains extremely faithful to the story and, most of all, spirit of the games.
So yeah, if you're not familiar with the games or at least bulk fantasy style in general, there's a moderate to high chance that you're going to feel a bit lost. It's filled with exotic names, weird creatures, vast landscapes and lore so deep that even I as a hardcore nerd despair at knowing it all. It certainly works as a generic action adventure fantasy, but the lure of it is in its faithfulness to the games. And the visuals, I suppose, though the film relies very heavily on CGI, like it really has to with the visuals themselves being so outlandish.
So yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed this film. Sure, the plot is clunky, the characters clichÃ©d (though the actors actually managed to pull almost all of them off beautifully), the visuals silly at times and overall I can definitely see that it's not for everyone. But for fans of the genre, it's something we've never seen before. Something I personally didn't believe we'd ever see.