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Warcraft

Warcraft: The Beginning

2016

Duncan Jones

Travis Fimmel, Toby Kebbell, Paula Patton, Ben Foster ...

5.6

21,862

Fantasy. Adventure The film portrays the origin story of the initial encounters between the humans and the orcs, with an emphasis upon both the Alliance's and the Horde's sides of their conflict. Featuring characters such as Durotan and Lothar, the film will take place in a variety of locations established in the video game series.

	Author	Review
United States	Geoff Berkshire Variety	"Hollywood's habit of turning hit videogames into unwatchable movies continues unabated (...) it’s dispiriting to think about the time, energy, planning and precision that went into “Warcraft” when the final product brings to mind those animated advertisements for iPhone app games."	NEG
United Kingdom	Helen O'Hara Telegraph	"If you take delight in names like "Orgrim Doomhammer" and have a high tolerance for randomly scattered apostrophes and superfluous "h"’s, it could be your film of the summer. If not, you should avoid it at all costs (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"Jones ... is trying to deliver something like "The Lord of the Rings" minus the boring bits, but without the boring bits what you have is Itchy and Scratchy with maces (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"An indigestible stew (...) You leave Warcraft with two words ringing in your ear: Game over (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)" k	NEG
United Kingdom	Steve Rose The Guardian	"Duncan Jones’s adaptation of the online game has a veneer of grandeur and some intriguing characters but its fixation with CGI spectacle makes for a lifeless watch (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"Crafty, and with heart (...) Compared with another medieval-ish tale, the soporific Hobbit trilogy, this international production is a fleet and nimble ride"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"An epic fantasy adventure with all the trimmings – but none of the personality (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United Kingdom	John Hazelton Screendaily	"['Warcraft'] ends up feeling unconvincing and generic, with nothing to compare to either the dramatic heft of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy or the raunch and gore of Game of Thrones"	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Imagine 'Battlefield Earth' without the verve and you get this sludgy, tedious fantasy adventure, a fun-starved dud that’s not even unintentionally hilarious"	NEG

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