A very exciting movie with great effects that lost me a little bit in the story aspect, but fans of the game will love it.

Rating: 7/10 (27 September 2016)

"From light comes darkness, and from darkness, light." After their homeworld is threatened a horde of Orcs open a portal to the human world of Azeroth in hopes of conjuring it and claiming it as their own. The humans, led by Anduin (Fimmel) begin to fight back with the help of half-Orc Garona (Patton). The humans must not only fight of the oncoming Orc army, but also evil magic forces that threaten everyone involved, Orc and human. This is a movie I wanted to see even though I have never played the game before. My son plays it but honestly until this movie I didn't know the game even had a story to it. While I will admit the effects and action sequences are very exciting in this, this is not a movie for the casual fantasy fan. This reminded me of the Hobbit movies in the way that the movie expects you to come in with some knowledge of each race and back story. For those that have played the game that is not a problem, for the rest of us it comes across as confusing and muddles the movie a little bit. For me at least. Overall, a very exciting and action filled movie with great effects that lost me a little bit in the story aspect, but fans of the game, or this movie genre will love it. I give this a B.