Was that it?...

Rating: 6/10 (23 September 2016)

While I can't claim to be an overly big fan of Warcraft in any of its forms, this was still a movie that was hard to miss. I mean, given the popularity of the game franchise, this was a movie that one simply had to watch.
And with it now watched, I can in all honesty say that this movie was beautiful to look at, with grand CGI effects and lots of details in most of the scenes. And I must actually commend the CGI team on the orcs, because they were really, really impressive to look at.
I have played the MMORPG for about a year or so, but I can't really say that the locations in the movie were memorable to me. Perhaps because I didn't really delve all that deep into the lore of the game and the world of Azeroth.
With that being said, praising the CGI, then I have to say that the story in the movie was somewhat of a flaccid one, and it was way below what I had expected from the movie. So just how well the movie catered to the hardcore fans of the Warcraft franchise, I can only speculate.
The movie was entertaining enough for what it turned out to be. Don't expect anything grand of anything even remotely thespian or Shakespearian. No, this was kept very simple and very straight forward.
As for the cast, well the majority of the people were doing good jobs with their given roles and were cast well enough as such. But personally then I think that Travis Fimmel was a poor choice for the lead actor. He just doesn't really possess that spark of commitment and enthusiasm that was required.
"Warcraft" is a movie that invites you to sit back in the chair, way, way back, shut down your brain and just enjoy all the pretty colors - essentially. "Warcraft" is entertaining, for sure, but it didn't leave me particularly impressed, nor did I think that it lived up to what it could have been. As such, then it was just another fantasy movie dressed up in impressive CGI effects.