Average

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2016)

I really wanted to like this movie. I played the very first Warcraft game when I was 8-9 years old, and I've played Warcraft 2, 3 and World of Warcraft as well, so I do really appreciate these games. Especially Warcraft 3 was an extremely good game.
However.... This movie just falls short on multiple fronts. The biggest downfall for this movie is probably the dialogue is extremely poor. You have people like Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper and you give them such below-average dialogue which causes all that potential and talent to just go to waste, it's just left unused. Also, they made the classic mistake of rushing the story line, you don't really get to know any of the characters, you don't really get to feel anything for them. Otherwise, the CGI was actually quite good, and this movie could have done very well if the storyline/writing was better. Unfortunately, this is not the case.
Lucky for Warcraft fanboys like me, it seems to have done well in the box-office so maybe we will get a sequel with a better storyline :)