Warcraft Film Review

Finished watching Warcraft directed by Duncan Jones and staring Daniel Wu, Toby Kebbell, Anna Galvin, Travis Fimmel, Dominic Cooper and Ben Foster. The film opens up on the Orc's home world as the Orc warlord Gul'dan (Daniel Wu) prepares to open a portal to a new world for the Orc's to live in as their current world is slowly dying. The leader of one of the Orc clans Durotan (Toby Kebbell) is with his pregnant mate Draka (Anna Galvin) hoping to find a new home to raise their child on the other side of the portal. Once a large group of Orc's find themselves on the new world they begin to pillage surrounding areas with the news quickly gaining the attention of military commander Sir Anduin Lothar (Travis Fimmel) who meets with his King and brother in law Llane Wrynn (Dominic Cooper) and Medivh (Ben Foster) the guardian of the world as the three try to come up with a plan to combat the Orc's. Overall this was a decent film as it brings world of Warcraft to life on film very well as the character designs and CGI works within the medium. The character moments that Durotan has with Draka and the humans helps to give Durotan and some of the other Orc's a great amount of humanity. However some of the human characters don't get that much development with the characters as its spread across the film, which makes them more interesting later on in the film but not as interesting as some of the Orc's dynamic. What lets the film down is the ending as its very abrupt as it leaves a couple of plot lines open and leaves you asking for more. 6.5/10.