The backdrops and roughly half the characters are animated.ĭavid Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones (“Moon”) was an odd choice to direct this time-and-space-wasting oddity. Orcs and humans battle and scheme, digital brawls set in digital wastelands in between visits to digital cities and digital fortresses. Paula Patton plays a fetching “half-breed,” half-human and raised by Orcs, she speaks both languages and has tusks, in addition to everything leather shorts and a halter top offer. “What are you doing in my city, spell-chucker?” And he’s certainly going to need the help of the skilled flunked-out wizard, Khadgar (Ben Schentzer). He will require the aid of The Guardian, a member of a sacred wizard class, played by Ben Foster. His brother-in-law, named Lothar (without SNL irony) and played by Travis Fimmel, is their champion, humanity’s Achilles or Lancelot. Dominic Cooper wears a lot of pretty armor and a lot of hair - facial and otherwise - as their king, Llane. And they’re preparing the whole Horde for an invasion.īut the Orc chieftain Durotan (voiced and motion-captured by Tobey Kebbell) of the Frost Wolf clan has a new baby on the way, and wonders if things could be different.Ĭan’t we call just get along, he asks? Or words to that effect, muttered through his bejeweled tusks. They take prisoners, because their magic is fed with human life force (literally). But thanks to their wizard-leader, they have this portal that can bring their war parties to a human world. Orcs, those gigantic, blood-and-battle loving beasts of myth, have ruined their world. It’s that old bugaboo “STORY” that lets it down. Might as well have a go at it.Ī CG-reliant sword and sorcery fantasy that owes an awful lot (a LOT) to Tolkien and even more to the generations of fans that made World of Warcraft a gaming phenomenon, it has two things the vast majority of such fare lacks - characters, and moments of pathos. That’s “Warcraft.” And seeing as how this tripe just wasted two hours and three minutes of my life, with the threat of sequels to come (Yeah, right), I’m tempted to leave it there.īut no. Another video game makes a branded transition to the big screen, and Hollywood blows it, yet again.
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