Warcraft: It’s big, bad and beastly

Cast: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster

Rated: 7/10

Big screen fantasies with bigger CGIs and VFX have steadily become Hollywood’s bread and butter. In that genre, Warcraft is a high-end period fantasy where big, burly, beastly, long-horned, wide teethed monsters with poison magic and hip-hugging bead accessories, not to mention ear and nose piercings, run at you wantonly under the 3D effect, making you cringe in  excitement and anticipation.

They also fight like warriors, have issues within themselves and the Orks, as they call each other, are led by a green-eyed energy sucking, environment-killing bully of a leader. They are now on to humans and their very English kingdom under a King who is, for once, not made to look like a pansy in the hands of his commander.

So the fight, the politics and the treachery begin on a high note and in very many unexpected quarters too. Thankfully, it all ends on a high note too, in the process, paving a sureshot way for a quick sequel.

Director Duncan Jones has put in all the fight and the gore but strangely has still fallen short of real life in the film. The King’s guardian (Ben Kingsley?), the sorceress (Glenn Close?) play their roles well, as do the beasts and wolves but there’s something missing, maybe that something will be ably dealt with in the sequel of this video game turned movie which Jones had promised at the Comic Con festival.

For now, make do with this not at all bad one and wait for the next correctional. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer 12 June, 2016