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Tobbelobbe

A movie that truly succeeds in being true to the game it is based on. Not a perfect movie by far, but an entertaining movie with fantastic CG and some great characters. If you love Warcraft, and even if you don't, I would still reccommend this movie.

8/10
7 years 10 months ago
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Flops

Went in expecting a turd, but I actually enjoyed it. I hope there is a sequel.
7 years 9 months ago
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piratediscoking

Needed another hour to balance it's characters and story. It's a fun enough movie, but if you're not familiar with Warcraft lore you'll find the characters undeveloped and you won't have a clue what the hell is going on.
7 years 9 months ago
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CSSCHNEIDER

It's slightly better than I was expecting, but still falls in the realm if pretty bad. The final film feels really muddled. There's interesting stuff in the Orc culture, but the movie never really capitalizes on it. Also, the look of it is really bright and shiny. It's a strangely plastic world.
7 years 7 months ago
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IreneAdler

Pretty much what I expected.

Story was okay, but far from great; more attention was paid to the visual effects than to character development.

But I went there for the visual impressions and those were truly spectacular! Wonderful creatures, cities and landscapes, great visual effects. Just for that it's worth watching it.
7 years 9 months ago
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Siskoid

Full disclosure... I played World of Warcraft for a while (around the time of the first two expansions), mostly to fit in with people in the office. I soon discovered I could never "raid" with them because our home lives didn't align properly, so to me, WoW was a grinding game more than anything else. Fine for what it was, but I was never obsessed. Still, trust me when I say I know who the Warcraft movie was for. People who ARE obsessed, who have read the tie-in novels, who might actually read the infodumps provided by the game. Personally, that all bores me to tears and I scroll through as quickly as possible. Read enough of that kind of generic sword & sorcery as a teen, it seems tedious now. Warcraft: The Beginning (to use its full, and entirely too hopeful title) takes us back in time to before the war, with orcs meeting humans for the first time. As a representation of the game, in which you might be a member of the Alliance or of the Horde, the movie gives you both. There are human and orcish heroes, and both are threatened. But once we got a Murloc burbling in a swamp and an overhead view that seemed to reference the old Warcraft strategy games, I felt like I'd gotten I needed for this enterprise. And people who haven't played Warcraft don't even have that. Beyond the initial set-up, there are a lot of thinly drawn characters and fights with special effects and I quickly lost interest. It's an origin story for something I don't really care about. And it overreaches. It is so effects-heavy that a lot of it looks fake. The hero Orc isn't bad, and pretty expressive all things considered, but a lot of CG characters aren't (the golem is total crap!). With a whole world to play with, it seems director Duncan Jones just forgot to fill it with anything but stock characters, especially on the human side. What a letdown after crafting a couple of promising science fiction gems (Moon and Source Code).
5 years 5 months ago
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Aniform

Ugh, what the hell did I just watch? I guess if you're a fan of this kind of stuff, maybe it's interesting, but for someone who hates Lord of the Rings, this is brutal to sit through.

And, that CG was terrible. Just shiny and fake feeling.
7 years ago
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DisneyStitch

Knowing nothing about WoW going into it, this was an interesting experiment in finding out how much I could glean from the dialog and characters in order to understand the story. I actually liked it, for what the CGI is trying to accomplish it isn't half bad and certainly entertaining enough despite the run time. Wouldn't mind a sequel for sure.
6 months 2 weeks ago
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boulderman

Surprised! I have the board game https://youtu.be/-SY6FWna95o
This helped and liked the score, style, effects and props... story well worn but the rest make up for it lift it to 7/10

(I used to consult for Activision Blizzard and was able to play the first 14 missions at work in my first week)
2 years 2 months ago
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gobberpooper

Honestly not that bad. The CG and fight sequences are actually incredible. Like seriously really well choreographed. The orc performances are all also fantastic, well voice acted and animated.

The humans on the other hand are...oh boy. It felt so cheap. They clearly used their entire budget and effort on the orcs and orc fight scenes, because then it's like an hour and a half of TV quality fantasy. That's excusable though whatever.

To me really the problem is that the movie is not super welcoming to people who aren't familiar with the games already. I've been playing the games since I was a little kid, the first Warcraft was one of the first video games I ever played, and even I was kind of lost. The plot felt slow and dragging because it assumes you know what's happening so you're lost and just watch people talk about nothing.
3 years 1 month ago
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Falkhorn

Just better than expected.
6 years 1 month ago
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royalspikey77

Definitely better than expected. A bit of hammy acting here and there (looking at you, Foster), but overall it was a strong story with good performances - shame about the "open-ended ending" primed for inevitable sequels
6 years 8 months ago
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chunkylefunga

Not amazing but definitely better than expected.
7 years 6 months ago
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Paravail

A noble effort that falls short. Undoubtedly the best video game based movie ever made, and the filmmakers were very respectful of the source material. Too respectful, I think.

As a longtime fan of the games there is one thing I have come to admit: that the story of Warcraft simply isn't all that interesting. The mythos is complete but uninspired, and the characters are arch to the point of cliche. Warcraft's story exists to facilitate game-play, and as such doesn't leave much room for nuance or characterization. Durotan and Gul'dan are a lot of fun to watch, but they are very simply "the noble and honorable warrior" and "the evil wizard." Orgrim and Blackhand have character arcs, but those are very predicable.

The orcs are at least fun to watch. The humans are downright boring and very poorly cast. Khadgar especially seems like he was plucked from a sub-par community theater, and Lothar and Wrynn fall short in both appearance and bearing needed to make fantasy characters believable.

The world looks cartoony and artificial: things are needlessly over-designed and impracticable, and while this sort of exaggerated look makes for interesting virtual worlds for gamers to explore at their own pace, they look downright silly as backdrop to non-interactive, high fantasy drama that is meant to be taken seriously.

This is probably the best adaptation of Warcraft that could be made; it is certainly the most faithful. Many critics will nitpick the movie, explaining why this or that doesn't work, but ultimately it boils down to this: Warcraft simply isn't all that interesting, and therefore any adaptation of it will not be all that interesting. You cannot squeeze blood from a stone.
7 years 9 months ago
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BenjaRamone

I was expecting a movie about Warcraft since I started playing WoW and I went to the cinema without any expectations (after seen other video-game movies) and I left the movie teather really dissapointed anyway.
Bad directing, bad acting and too fast. The few good action scenes were not enough to counter the poor storytelling.
7 years 10 months ago

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