if you're a hardcore WoW fan maybe there's something in it for you. For me... nope.

Rating: 3/10 (17 June 2016)

In this story of orcs vs humans, the audiences lose out whether they know it or not. If this is a "passion project" for Duncan Jones, and I can believe that it is, he has some damn nerdy, generic passions. And just because you may immerse yourself in a game doesn't mean you can immerse yourself the same way in a film, and tone matters so much in this kind of instance.
I confess that about 75/80 minutes in I was tempted to walked out (I stuck it through but nodded off near the end). It wasn't going to get any better, and it probably wouldn't get much worse, but damn if I was going to let me and my wife's dinner plans wait any longer through this dribble. Suffice to say I feel confident in saying I saw the movie even if I didn't see it until the credits rolled. Once you've seen one dumb-lazy ass sequence you've seen them all. The only saving grace here is Ben Foster, and even he is wasted somewhat.
and lastly about that it's unfair to compare this to Battlefield Earth, which a few critics have done. That was really entertaining, as horrible and miserable an experience that was/is/will always be, and Warcraft, for how much money and time and effort was put into it by its special effects and make-up crew, isn't. Maybe closer to Dungeons & Dragons from 2000, with the same obsessive interest in nerdom, but at least that (I can't believe I'm giving that film some credit) had the capacity to EXPLAIN certain things, little things that would make elements like magic make some modicum of sense, and an actor going full-hog for so-bad-it's-funny entertainment like Jeremy Irons. Foster comes close but not enough.
A unique specimen in Hollywood blockbuster terrain, though nevertheless a wasted one, and I don't know if the extra 40 minutes (excised from the theatrical version) would do much to salvage the mostly wooden acting and fantasy mumbo-jumbo.