Perfectly adequate. Wouldn't mind seeing more

Rating: 7/10 (17 September 2016)

I will start by saying I'm not a big Warcraft fan. I was back in the day, but haven't played since Warcraft III (about 12 years ago). Having said that, I'm a fan of the fantasy genre, like LotR, Hobbit, GoT etc., so I gave this a shot out of curiosity.
I wasn't expecting much from this film since the trailers didn't really get me excited, and it neither surprised me by being great, nor disappointed me by being bad; it was somewhere in the middle. Basically, it was just "good enough", but not really "good". I didn't feel like I wasted my time, but it's not something I'm going to rush out to recommend to others. Perhaps fans of WoW will enjoy seeing these characters come to life more than I did. I just took it at face value as a film, with no bias from love of the game, and found it to be adequate. Many reviewers said it was too busy setting up a sequel rather than focusing on its own story. I didn't get that vibe, though there are definitely hints at more story to come. I am curious to see what a sequel holds, but because of its lackluster performance at the domestic box office, they'll either reduce the budget of a sequel, which doesn't seem likely if they want to recreate the world/characters of the first film, or just not make the film. Or they might just make it a Chinese production since it did so well there. I guess we'll see.