I had never played Warcraft before and I know that films that are based on video games are mostly a miss. However when I found out that Duncan Jones aka David Bowie's director son who made two of the outstanding indie sci-fi hits in recent years: Source Code with Jake Gyllenhaal and Moon with Sam Rockwell, my curiosity and expectation with Warcraft became increasingly high to find out if Jones can succeed with his first big budgeted flick.
I did some background research of the game first before watching. The battle never ends on Azeroth with the human and the orcs competing against each other to live. Unfortunately, the movie has too many characters that we are inclined to follow at every step. That can also be said about the X-Men movies but unlike the Marvel franchise, the Warcraft ones are written poorly that in the end we moviegoers don't give a damn about since unlike the game, we aren't the ones playing.
At some point, Warcraft aims for Lord of the Rings grandeur but the CGI simply overpowers everything and instead of replicating the Oscar winning trilogy of Peter Jackson, Warcraft turned out to be more like the other trilogy: The Hobbit.
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