Filmmaker Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) directs this feature adaptation of the world-renowned fantasy videogame Warcraft.
The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilisation faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonise another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.
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Even when you set aside the curse of the video game adaptation, Warcraft: The Beginning's status as the first really ambitious big screen fantasy since Jackson met Tolkien means the odds were always stacked against it.
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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.
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Jones embraces Warcraft’s world with laudable commitment: but when it comes to charging it with life, sheer bulk gets the better of him.
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With a tighter plot, a touch of humour and some peppier, less slab-fisted action scenes this might actually have worked...
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The pristine setting never meshes with Jones’s efforts to give emotional reality to his army of characters, who cannot escape their tropes: leader, hero, warrior woman, mystic.
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Jones ... against the odds, has mined a watchable movie out of an entertainment franchise that started with a video game and now includes novels, comics and assorted schlock (toys, costumes, a mah-jongg set).
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Director Duncan Jones, a self-professed Warcraft fan, has clearly put a lot of love and care into fleshing out a story, but it’s questionable whether it was ever really merited...
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Despite the silly names and cheesy nerdism there's plenty of fun to be had in Duncan Jones' video game adaptation.
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The movie is character-driven every step of the way. That’s why... it casts a spell.
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The ambition is laudible, but it's to little end. At once empty and impenetrable...
Full reviewWarcraft: The Beginning is available to stream in Australia now on Netflix and Google Play and Apple TV and Foxtel and Binge.
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