Warcraft, The Beginning: "You Have No Honour!"

Rating: 6/10 (26 June 2016)

Rating: 6.7, OK Movie
*Before the review I would like to point out I have never played the game World Of Warcraft, but I do play Hearthstone, regardless I shall judge the movie as the film alone.
*Duncan Jone's Warcraft was announced in 2006 and was considered to be the most anticipated movie based off a video game, unfortunately it has followed the trend of video game movies. The journey though Warcraft feels like a rushed, character driven origin story filled with a large quantity of decent CGI. It had the potential to be the future of the fantasy genre, but ultimately fell into failure due to a lack of emotion and purpose.
*Characters - Humans/Alliance:The human characters are rather boring and at time emotionless.

Anduin: Travis Fimmel tries to be the movies protagonist, but his dialog and behaviour are no equal to his strength in battle. His griffin on the other hand was awesome.

Medivh: Confusing and boring mage for an awesome title of the Guardian...

King Wrynn: Charming boy Dominic Cooper was a decent alliance king, however like most of his fellow characters, he lacks empathy.

Khadger: Simply put, a stupid, wizard wanna be who gives us a light show, whoa...

Garona: A decent hybrid of a character with interesting origins followed by a poor performance by Paula Patton.

*Characters - Orcs/Horde: The orcs are no doubt the greatest characters in Warcraft. There motion capture design and interesting characters lift the movies down falls. They are truly awesome!

Durotan: Toby Kebbel plays an awesome Durotan as well as his Koba in Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (8.7). He gave the audience a new perception of the Orcs and is the heart of the story, as he establishes that in "darkness there is light." His death however was too quick, damn it!

Gul'dan: Daniel Wu's Gul'dan is indeed a horrific antagonist with an equally horrific design. He summons an awesome fight between himself and Durotan, the highlight of the movie.

Blackhand: A predictable brute of a character who makes the action worth watching and provides us with a satisfying but unique death.

Orgrim: An interesting orc torn between two races and one world, unfortunately his actions lead to deadly consequences.

Drakka: Tough Mum...

*Plot & Design: The movies plot has a simple and focused story line however is does become foggy due to complicated characters. The dialog in this feature is also disappointing and rather cliché when surrounded by such a colourful world. Jones has advanced to fast in the tales of Warcraft just to jump in the action. The first two fight scenes are entertaining however the final act feels emotionless and just a boring animation with no soul or lust in the conflict.
*Its a movie for the fans and players, so let them enjoy it. I myself was inspired by the movie in a way, to play Hearthstone... Overall its a very average and bland start to a Warcraft series but i do feel that Blizzard Entertainment will provide a more thrilling sequel where they can fix their mistakes in the World Of Warcraft.
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