Time for a series

Rating: 6/10 (22 February 2017)

I enjoyed this film. I never played the game but it's hard not to be familiar with it. It's not based on World of Warcraft, but on other series.
As with comic book adaptations and other video game adaptions there are some slight deviations, but nothing too extreme.
The CGI and motion capture for this film and some of the actual sets were good, not great. To me CGI and green screen should be an excuse to abandon live sets and locations. The film has characters similar to that of Lords of the Rings but not the same quality on the all around.
Ruth Negga and Paula Patton were great, especially Paula Patton. She needs to do more action films. I'm sorry but nothing beat traditional make-up and watching the actual actor versus motion capture. The motion capture was good in this and was needed for the Orcs. I'm just really glad a decision was made to include Paula Patton and put her in make up, instead of turning her into another motion capture character.
Speaking of make up, the costuming was awesome in this. Especially Dominic Cooper who played King Llane Wrynn. His battle armor was incredible.
Great fight sequences and a decent story-line. Again, nothing great. I do wish this film was lighter on the gore. I get it's based on a game and the film is meant to emulate the game play but I wish there was less gore.
I'm glad the director made changes to the script. The film did have balance between the Orc clans and the humans characters. Unfortunately I can't give this a high rating and certainly can't agree that the video game film curse is over. The deviations were slight but did seem necessary at all and the film as a whole was good not great.
I still did enjoy watching this film.