![]() Franchise newcomers will either just roll with the punches of the extreme fantasy visuals and storytelling – boasting everything from gryphon-flying knights to weirdly coloured elves and giant clay golems – or be thoroughly put off by its in-your-face stylings. Zug zug.Įmbracing the source material’s often absurdly colorful and gauche aesthetic with gleeful abandon, there’s an enviable sense of devil be damned filmmaking at play here. But with all of that being said, I still enjoyed it. It’s also about as subtle as a CGI Hulk-by-way-of-Burning-Man-attendee’s oversized meat tenderizer to the skull, with many characters being more a personified collection of cool scenes than actual fully realized people. The film is often haphazard and a bit clumsy, especially in a particularly frantic and breathless opening half. ![]() ![]() “Cry havoc and let slip the orcs of war!” seems like a fitting bit of paraphrasing to describe director/writer Duncan Jones’ adaptation of Warcaft, the first entry in Blizzard Entertainment’s long running classic video game franchise.
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