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Official russian translation.
The movie isn't as bad as everyone says. It being based on a game's lore is absolutely besides the point. It's just bad as movie by itself. Well, not "bad" bad, but extra dull and uninspired.
It's a most generic fantasy-action film, based on most generic universe, stolen from less know universe with less generic lore. Warcraft's universe was garbage all along. Blizzard always was abysmal at storytelling. The only bright moment the setting had were The Frozen Throne campaigns, and even they were cheap and half-arsed attempts at recompiling the tropes. The games have merit only on pure mechanics-level, and only Reign of Chaos with The Frozen Throne still hold up, maybe Tides of Darkness too. And still, the stupid non-in-engine cinematics were absolutely terrible. They had nothing to do with the game and the characters were so unrecognizable, that i never understood who they are supposed to represent. Not even body types were kept consistent. Even the basic cinematic language was a mess with bad flow.
The second game has already retconned the first one, third retconned the second, MMO retconned the third one, and this picture reboots it all.
Only stupid people would blame the computer game origins of this IP. In the end even good movies have bad stories. Movies are not books. The failings of this attempt are related directly to its cinematic qualities. It looks plastic and generic, and all that even with them actually managing to capture the cartoony art-style, which looks rather uncanny. Instead of building up on that and creating some new cinematography and\or hamming-in larger-than-life characters, played by the cast of bodybuilders with unconventional faces, it's just flat. It's a cartoony CGI cartoon which intentionally tries to be drab and boring, as if it's an oscarbait.
The movie isn't as bad as everyone says. It being based on a game's lore is absolutely besides the point. It's just bad as movie by itself. Well, not "bad" bad, but extra dull and uninspired.
It's a most generic fantasy-action film, based on most generic universe, stolen from less know universe with less generic lore. Warcraft's universe was garbage all along. Blizzard always was abysmal at storytelling. The only bright moment the setting had were The Frozen Throne campaigns, and even they were cheap and half-arsed attempts at recompiling the tropes. The games have merit only on pure mechanics-level, and only Reign of Chaos with The Frozen Throne still hold up, maybe Tides of Darkness too. And still, the stupid non-in-engine cinematics were absolutely terrible. They had nothing to do with the game and the characters were so unrecognizable, that i never understood who they are supposed to represent. Not even body types were kept consistent. Even the basic cinematic language was a mess with bad flow.
The second game has already retconned the first one, third retconned the second, MMO retconned the third one, and this picture reboots it all.
Only stupid people would blame the computer game origins of this IP. In the end even good movies have bad stories. Movies are not books. The failings of this attempt are related directly to its cinematic qualities. It looks plastic and generic, and all that even with them actually managing to capture the cartoony art-style, which looks rather uncanny. Instead of building up on that and creating some new cinematography and\or hamming-in larger-than-life characters, played by the cast of bodybuilders with unconventional faces, it's just flat. It's a cartoony CGI cartoon which intentionally tries to be drab and boring, as if it's an oscarbait.