Movie Review: Warcraft (2016)

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Hello All,

    At the time of writing this (June 12th, 2016) , I can easily say it’s been a bit of a weird day. Right now, the worst mass shooting in U.S history has occurred, and the stanley cup might be won tonight. That’s the kind of day it’s been, and I’m not trying to make light of the incident, I just wanted to give you the mindset I have at the time I’m writing this because this review will probably not be satisfactory to that many people.

    I don’t know much about the lore of the Warcraft games. I came in at World of Warcraft just after the release of the burning crusade expansion. Several years and two accounts later, I still can’t tell you anything about the deep lore of the game. I know names of places, and some of the groups, and the various races. That’s about it. So I felt I was the right kind of guy to see this movie with a fair and open mind between being a game fan and a movie fan. So how did the film do? Let’s find out shall we?

Plot Summary - When the home of a race of various Orc clans begins to die, the Warlock Gul’dan combines into an army called the Horde, and leads them through a portal into the land of Azeroth. When the Humans of Stormwind find out, the rally around their Guardian and form a plan to take down the orcs.

Pros - As a film, it is really impressive visually. As a game fan, it was really cool to see some of the places I was familiar with appear on screen. The cast is pretty good for the most part, as nothing felt phoned in or lazy. The story, on a basic level, is interesting to watch, especially near the ending.

Cons - If you don’t know the lore, trying to follow the movie will probably be tough. It does a terrible job of introducing some very key things, such as names of people, and purposes of things. If you know the lore, you might not like how much of it they had to skip over to make the story easier for non fans.  It does also suffer a sense of being massively scatter brained. There’s a lot of jumping around, and while I did enjoy the ending, they do something which I won’t say here, but it takes a really cool moment, and massively undercuts its value with a short and pretty pointless follow up scene. That’s the other problem, is that it has a lot of cliched moments that really weren’t needed. It feels like some of those could have been taken out to flush out some of the better ideas that didn’t get much attention.

Final Score - 5/10

I leave this one as a watch at your own risk type answer. I personally thought it was decent, but not great.

Next - Conjuring 2

The only reason I didn’t watch it today was because I was exhausted after getting called into work. I’ll do my best to see it soon.

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