Visually stunning, but confusing.

Rating: 6/10 (16 November 2016)

I have mixed feelings about this movie, I came away from it thinking it was ironic that World of Warcraft beat LOTR online to the punch in the mmo genre, but the Lord of the rings trilogy smashed WoW on the big screen.
Visually it's a treat to watch the cgi is great and the orc's look fantastic. The fight scenes are done very well, and the spells look amazing.
The tone seems all other the place. The comic relief character khadgar just didn't have the flow that the two hobbit's had in LOTR. The sad moments never really hit home with me either there's scene's that should be pulling on your heart strings, but for lack of screen time or some other reason you just don't care.
I have been playing wow on and off since vanilla and I'm pretty good with the lore, but there's time's where even I don't know what's going on. The movie make's a very decent effort trying to keep the story condensed, but it soon unravels and gets lost pretty quick.
So to summarise it's a decent movie to watch but doesn't hold a candle to other fantasy movies, and I think it's because it has a hard time balancing certain aspects of the fantasy genre. While LOTR knows how and when to turn from a beautiful fantasy flick with great visuals to gritty and realistic war scene's to drama with real characters and dilemmas that make the audience care about the current situation there in. WoW simple does not do this.