Good Entertainment. Loyal to the video games.

Rating: 7/10 (26 May 2016)

The movie came out this morning here in Dubai and I had the chance to watch it at the first show. I went it without reading anything about the film at all to give it a fair chance. Here are my thoughts.
The film has a strong start that tries to explain the reason for the Orcs presence in Azaroth. It's a good start.
I thought the movie lost a bit of pacing in the first 45 minutes of the film due to (occasional) weak acting and casting. Overall it's not bad enough to put any one off. Just don't expect GoT standards of acting and direction.
The 2nd and 3rd halves of the film are full of some very good action sequences and the film doesn't hold any punches when it comes to character deaths, decapitations and skull crushes, which I found good and loyal to the video game lore. There were a lot of locations that took me back to my WoW playing days such as IronForge, StormWind etc. It has some very obvious characters throughout the difference locations that only the true video game players would recognize and remember.
Having played the games since the mid 90s, I have to say Blizzard has started the franchise off on a strong footing. It deserves a few sequels that will hopefully do justice to the entire WarCraft lore. Go watch it. And no, I'm not a studio plant.
7.5/10