Had potential to be better than average.

Rating: 5/10 (5 July 2016)

Warcraft - The Beginning
To put it simply, the film serves well to fans of the already established franchise. That is, if you are familiar with the Warcraft universe you have a much higher chance of enjoying this than someone who is not familiar at all.
I liked the film, seeing the characters and locations I know and love up there on the screen is what made it for me. But, that is all the film has going for it.
Where this film fails as an actual film, is in its pacing. There were moments where within a 5 minute window, 3 scenes would have already passed. Some scenes so short they consisted of only 4 lines of dialogue before being thrown into the next scene. Leaving you with the sense of either wanting more or asking 'was that scene really necessary?'
The CGI to me felt lacking, too stylized for my tastes, there were moments where it looked really great and then there were moments where it looked like I was watching a game cut scene. otherwise the world the CGI department created was beautiful.
All in all, the film was a bit better than I had anticipated, its score was true to home, feeling very Warcraft-esque, the characters felt relateable and they way 'magic' was portrayed was fun to watch. It just needed better work on its editing/pacing, the script itself (Bad dialogue and character decisions) and some of its CGI.
I rate it a 5/10 (5 is average - a lot of people seem to forget that, you find a lot of people using 7 as an average these days)