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       Warcraft: The Beginning (2016)
       By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 18, 2017, 9:41 pm
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       [center]Warcraft: The Beginning
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       I've known about Warcraft for years and I've never been
       compelled to play the game once, which I haven't. So I'm coming
       into this movie with zero knowledge of the mythology and the
       characters, which in turn made me have very low expectations for
       what would be the final film product. My initial perception
       almost came to fruition as I contemplated quitting the movie a
       couple of times within the first 30 minutes, which was insanely
       slow and laborious to get through. After that, everything
       started to pick up steam. Things were moving at break neck pace
       at times. This was good visually to get me glued to the screen,
       but it came at the expense of character development. Do I
       honestly think going into a movie like this is going to have
       that? No. But I do expect there to be some effort on the writers
       part to make us want to connect with any of the main characters.
       Ironically enough, the one character that everyone will connect
       to is that of  Durotan, a complete CGI character.
       It's the human characters that were rail thin and hampers what
       is actually are pretty decent flick. There were far too many
       scenes that just felt rushed and I don't know if it was the lazy
       writing or if it was in fact due to scenes being cut or thrown
       away entirely to make its run time at 2 hours. As I said, the
       movie is better than what I thought it would be and it could
       have easily hit the 4 Star mark if for a few changes. It's a
       spectacle and a feast for the eyes and it looks damn good in the
       process. You can't help but marvel at the Orc scenes in
       particular. This is clearly a franchise in the making so they
       set up the sequel at the end. This may have only garnered 3 1/2
       Stars from me, but I'm actually hoping and looking forward to
       the next installment. As for this one, definitely worth a Rent.
       FYI, I was pleasantly surprised to see both Dominic Cooper and
       Ruth Negga as the King and Queen. For fans of Preacher, you will
       know they are far from a King or Queen on that show which made
       seeing their pairing all the more better.
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