Warcraft

The reports of this film's artistic death have been greatly exaggerated.

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Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton and state-of-the-art digital animation topline a long-in-development game-based movie.

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There’s nothing immersive (or fun) about this world of Warcraft.

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David Bowie’s director son can’t win ‘Warcraft’

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Probably the best way to experience Warcraft, a generally amusing and sometimes visually arresting absurdity, is stoned. If watching the big screen through a cannabis cloud isn’t your idea of a good movie time, though, I suggest that you do what I did and just go with the incoherent flow.

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Worst of all, Warcraft is basically two hours of set-up for a sequel that may never happen and one you’d probably skip anyway.

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Proceed with caution to "Warcraft," but there is entertainment to be found here. It's certainly more absorbing than the lazily assembled "Alice Through the Looking Glass," because Jones' exertion and drive behind the film is palpable, if a bit sweaty.

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With their own world dying, a race of Orcs pass through a magical portal into the land of Azeroth. Led by a despotic warlock, the Orcs try to conquer Azeroth, but one among their number wants to broker peace.

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The Warcraft movie is naff fantasy in shiny, technicolour armour.

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Duncan Jones’s adaptation of the online game has a veneer of grandeur and some intriguing characters but its fixation with CGI spectacle makes for a lifeless watch.

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'Warcraft: The Beginning': Loud, violent, and incoherent - in 3D!

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Hollywood's habit of turning hit videogames into unwatchable movies continues unabated.

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For many of the millions who love it, fantasy can be a refuge — not a quick escape from this world but the opportunity to luxuriate in another. Sadly, they won't find much world to sink into in Warcraft, the 3-D adaptation of the computer-game series whose online role-playing edition marked the greatest monetization yet of the addictive game concepts Gary Gygax and David Arneson invented with Dungeons & Dragons: kill monsters, get loot, grow more powerful, kill bigger monsters.

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This adaptation of the online role-playing juggernaut leaves you with two words: game over.

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Paula Patton, playing a half-orc, half-human female warrior, is the most sympathetic character and actually gives something approaching a fully fledged performance, but for the rest of it … ugliness as far as the eye can see.

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Its take on the Warcraft universe is little more than a bargain-basement rehash of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth.

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It’s all so plodding and grim, echoed by the blandly percussive score by Ramin Djawadi.

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And just as it’s ending, “Warcraft” leaves all kinds of plot threads dangling for the ambitious possibility of a sequel. But you’ll be likely to cry “Game Over” because this first one is easily a contender for the worst movie of the year.

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Imagine “Battlefield Earth” without the verve and you get this sludgy, tedious fantasy adventure, a fun-starved dud that’s not even unintentionally hilarious.

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On the whole, you could posit Warcraft as a metaphor for our contemporary immigration consternation – but only as a drinking game, I think.

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