Storyline
The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.
Directors
Cast
Terry Notary, Ben Foster, Patrick Sabongui, Christina Jastrzembska, Michael Adamthwaite, Toby Kebbell, Clancy Brown, Dan Payne, Callum Keith Rennie, Ryan Robbins, Paula Patton, Mackenzie Gray, Mackenzie Gray, Donnie MacNeil, Donnie MacNeil, Dominic Cooper, Jill Morrison, Dean Redman, Robert Kazinsky, G. Michael Gray, Donavon Stinson, Ruth Negga, Eugene Lipinski, Glenn Close, Travis MacDonald, Frank C. Turner, Daniel Wu, Raj Lal, Travis Fimmel, Callan Mulvey, Kyle Rideout, Ben Schnetzer, Dylan Schombing, Wesley MacInnes, Glenn Ennis, Mike Antonakos, Christian Sloan, Burkley Duffield, Anna Galvin, Elena Wurlitzer, Anna Van Hooft, Adrian Glynn McMorran, Elisabeth Rosen, Valérie Wiseman, Trevor Mack, Joel Sturrock, Michael Patric
Trailer
Reviews
60
The movie is character-driven every step of the way. That’s why, even if the world created by Jones and his talented design collaborators, both old-school physical and cutting-edge digital, isn’t seamlessly believable so much as staggeringly crafted, it casts a spell.
60
Tasked with brokering a peace between event-sized thrills, gaming lore and high fantasy, Jones embraces Warcraft’s world with laudable commitment: but when it comes to charging it with life, sheer bulk gets the better of him.
50
Warcraft may provide grand, thunderous spectacle as it transforms human actors into hulking Orcs, but when trying to perform the alchemy of transmuting genre archetypes into characters with soul, the magic fizzles out.
40
The film takes a long time to build dramatic momentum and gets interrupted by what seem like unnecessary plot points; some of them, perhaps, geared towards potential sequels.
40
Director Duncan Jones, a self-professed Warcraft fan, has clearly put a lot of love and care into fleshing out a story, but it’s questionable whether it was ever really merited. There’s a terminal flimsiness, as if this virtually-derived world hasn’t quite assumed three dimensions.
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