No Craftiness

Rating: 6/10 (3 February 2017)

I don't know anything about Warcraft except that it's a game. I was going into this as a blank slate: tell me your story, show me your movie and I have no biases to start.
Ala LOTR and Game of Thrones there is a kingdom with many districts/outposts, etc. Orcs, from a separate world altogether, have found a portal into the world of humans, dwarfs and other beings. These Orcs have only conquering on their minds and the humans must stop them to protect their world.
The story is pretty good, nothing groundbreaking. I had no problem with it for the most part but there were some definite inconsistencies that I found annoying. The CGI was solid (it was a major undertaking considering all of the Orcs were CGI) and there were some nice battle scenes. Beyond that, there's not much to say about it. They tried to go for some depth but it fell very flat. In fact, it came of as sloppy and trite. I think they would have been better off going a less serious route and making it what it was: a battle of humans and Orcs.