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First Warcraft reviews

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bananafactory

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The Wrap

http://www.thewrap.com/warcraft-review-swords-sorcery-and-stupidity-abound-in-game-adaptation/

Imagine “Battlefield Earth” without the verve and you get this sludgy, tedious fantasy adventure, a fun-starved dud that’s not even unintentionally hilarious
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Haven't seen any more but I'll post them if I do.

I still think it looks like a lot of fun so hopefully the rest of the reviews are more positive on it.


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Collider (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYBaA0KeZdc

Variety

http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/warcraft-film-review-world-of-warcraft-movie-1201780459/

The epic battle at the center of “Warcraft” isn’t the clash between humans and orcs. That’s just what takes up roughly two hours of screen time. The true conflict comes from filmmakers trying to tell a story with soul and struggling against the inherent ridiculousness of the commodity they’re working with.
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Hollywood Reporter

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/warcraft-film-review-896290

While the enormity of the undertaking is evident in every frame of the sci-fi medieval-ish action saga, director Duncan Jones manages, for the most part, to keep it from lumbering. With an emphasis on craft over war, the characters are front and center, and those that are partly digital creations are among its most memorable. They have heart.
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Crave Online

http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/992383-warcraft-review-fel-comes-mogtown

We are still waiting for a great video game movie. Maybe we’ll never get one, but a film like Warcraft at least makes it feel like we’re buffering for it. This is an honest attempt to recapture the finer qualities of its source material inside of another medium. When it works, it’s a lot of fun. When it fails, it’s merely an average fantasy adventure that focuses too much on familiar plot devices to make a major impact.
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Playlist

http://theplaylist.net/review-brill...-warcraft-familiar-fantasy-doldrums-20160525/

“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.
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Wow247

http://www.wow247.co.uk/2016/05/25/warcraft-review/

It has plenty of faults, but Warcraft: The Beginning largely achieves what it sets out to do. Whether we’ll get to see Warcraft: The Middle and Warcraft: The End though remains to be seen.
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Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/25/world-of-warcraft-the-beginning-review-end-already-nigh

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
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Time Out

http://www.timeout.com/london/film/warcraft

Like its ten-foot anti-heroes the orcs, ‘Warcraft’ is noisy, lumbering and not terribly bright.
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munchie64

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maxcriden

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Unfortunate if only for Duncan Jones. He was batting a a huge two for two. Regardless, still very much looking forward to his next work.
 
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FoneBone

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Variety
The epic battle at the center of “Warcraft” isn’t the clash between humans and orcs. That’s just what takes up roughly two hours of screen time. The true conflict comes from filmmakers trying to tell a story with soul and struggling against the inherent ridiculousness of the commodity they’re working with. It shouldn’t take a mage to foresee that this pricey and preposterous adaptation of an online gaming phenomenon was preordained for artistic mediocrity.
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A more positive (albeit heavily qualified) review from The Hollywood Reporter:
For non-aficionados, the two-hour experience could be more concise, but it’s no ordeal. Neither, though, is it consistently involving. If you haven’t already invested in the self-serious mythology, it can feel borderline camp, if not downright dull — or both, as when an uncredited Glenn Close intones platitudes from on high about darkness and light.

Yet there’s no question that it’s a breakthrough in both storytelling and artistry for features based on video games. And compared with another medieval-ish tale, the soporific Hobbit trilogy, this international production is a fleet and nimble ride, likely to conquer overseas box offices and make a solid stand stateside.
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Hero_of_the_Day

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This movie has looked like complete shit since the first trailer. Not going to be shocked if it gets awful reviews. Curious to see how it performs at the box office, though. This and Ghostbusters are the wild cards of the summer that I just have no sense of what they're going to do.
 
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Korigama

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Imagine “Battlefield Earth” without the verve and you get this sludgy, tedious fantasy adventure, a fun-starved dud that’s not even unintentionally hilarious
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Imagine “Battlefield Earth”
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“Battlefield Earth”
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Weeeeeeelp.

Wasn't expecting it to review well, and not really expecting to perform all that well at the box office, but DAMN.
 
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kanuuna

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“Warcraft” promises, or threatens, sequels, but then so did “Super Mario Bros.” And come to think of it, if forced to watch either of these video-game movies a second time, I’d probably vote for the plumbers.
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This seems excessive, but then again I haven't seen the movie yet.
 
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ApharmdX

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I'm not surprised. Every trailer has been abysmal. I wish they had brought Warcraft to the small screen with a TV show or something episodic. That would have been better, I think.
 
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Casimir

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Wallach said:
battlefield earth reference straight from the jump

abort, abort
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Battlefield Earth is a pretty decent 'so bad it's kinda good' movie to laugh at with friends who also like that unintentional genre. If Warcraft is the same, I'll watch it when it hits DVD/Streaming services.
 
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Sojgat

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As expected.

Those clips that got released a couple weeks ago erased any hope I had that this would end up being any good.
 
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Frozenprince

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This just bums me out cause it means when it fails (this was never gonna make money good or not) Duncan Jones never gets a big movie again.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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Well, Variety didn't open with the Battlefield Earth reference, but stashed down near the bottom:

Boasting more than 2,000 visual effects shots, 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. So good at making the most outlandish elements of his first two films seem completely credible, Jones can’t find a way to get this cartoony spectacle to soar. His heartfelt approach to the material only underlines the silliness.
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