Fan-thought: GREAT! Non-fan thought: Okay.

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2016)

As a Warcraft fan... I loved it! It had everything, from the way lore plays out, despite changes to the original, it kept the important key moments of it, all the way to Easter eggs. I couldn't be more satisfied and wanting a extended edition or even a sequel soon. It deserves 8-9/10.
As a non-Warcraft fan... I can see where the problems were, but even that didn't deserve 1-3/10 rating it's getting on Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes, that's just bias opinion from upper-class snobs, bribed assholes or even people who are determined to have the mindset of "game movies are inherently bad" forever. The problems come from one regrettable fact: Movie was cut down way too much! It should've been at least 30min longer, or be the original 3 hours length, like LotR was; because you notice that there's some very abrupt cuts happening and there are missing scenes we've seen in the trailers or even SDCC leaks. That's why certain characters feel the certain lack of depth and/or character development and that's where the movie suffers greatly.
So I'm a bit split on this matter; on one hand you see almost all the chieftain/warlords in the movie together (apart from Ner'zhul for obvious reasons), yet they have no speaking lines, but on the other hand, it avoided the cluster-problem the Hobbit had, where 13 dwarfs only had 4 dwarfs that really mattered, while others where there for comic relief or for just being there because the adaptation demanded.
All in all it was still enjoyable to watch, so it deserves a 6/10 at least, and I would go watch it again simply because it looks amazing.
I just hope that Duncan is able to release the Directors cut so we can finally see the movie in FULL SPLENDOR!