When pensive orc Durotan (Toby Kebbell, Dr. When main human soldier Lothar’s (Travis Fimmel) son dies, it’s filmed with a sense of emotional relevance…but we met the character at most twice before that scene and he was barely a glorified extra. It implies an actual storyline concerning Llane’s prejudice towards other species, but it’s never fully fleshed out in the movie it’s clearly the culmination of the human king’s character arc, 90% of which was seemingly left on the cutting room floor. During the final battle, Dominic Cooper’s human King Llane (it’s fantasy, so it’s silly just to name him Lane or Layne) invites Paula Patton’s comically cheap looking half-breed Garona to join him on his horse and defeat the orcs together. Warcraft is a movie for film fans…insofar as the only way you can understand this movie is if you’ve seen enough movies to know all the beats and bridges they left out, which is most of them. (Then you go to Wikipedia to pick up on everything you missed.) And perhaps no movie better exemplifies this phenomenon than Warcraft.
I’m sure everyone has had times when you’re watching a movie, something major appears to have happened in the blink of an eye and you ask “Did I nod off?” So you rewind the movie, sometimes twice, and even put the time code on to figure out – ‘was it me or was it the movie?’ More often than not, it’s the movie. Or you can see me as a representative viewer. Furthermore, I have never played the game, so please forgive my ignorance as to its lore and canon. But was it really the catastrophe that most critics have painted it as? Time to give Warcraft “the Benefit of the Doubt,” and look at what worked (as well as what didn’t).
The Benefit of the Doubt is a segment where I look at movies that got disastrous reviews and ask “Was it really that bad?” With a horrendous 26% (4.07/10 average rating) on Rotten Tomatoes, the long-awaited (I guess…) video game adaptation Warcraft (now called Warcraft: The Beginning apparently) is easily one of the worst reviewed movies of the year.
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