Flawed, but enjoyable. Ignore the Ebertian Inquisitors.

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2016)

Going into this with no prior knowledge, no reviews and only by my previous experience of playing the games I went in with cautious optimism and what I got was a solid action fantasy, with well defined characters and admittedly simple story, but kept the film grounded, so when I eventually checked out the reviews I was really taken aback by how negative they were and after carefully looking through them, I hate to say it, but there is clear biases, they wanted to hate this movie, I even saw one review compare it to Battlefield Earth, BATTLEFIELD EARTH!?! Really? I concede Warcraft is no masterpiece but its no where near the ineptitude of Battlefield Earth and there are unfair comparisons to Lord of the Rings, this isn't that kind of movie, it actually reminds me a lot of Conan the Barbarian(original). Now like I said, it is flawed, I found some of the scene transitions didn't flow as smoothly as it should, so there are obvious cuts they made to keep the movie confined in its run time, but I can't help but think it could've really done with them scenes in so i expect a directors cut in the near future, also and this is a double edge sword mind, the movie does rely on the audience being familiar with the lore and world, but I think the casual moviegoer would get a kick out of this without prior knowledge. The CGI was impressive and the action scenes were top notch, I even felt like I was in the games and even took a lot of risks and went into surprisingly different directions. I highly recommend it.