Warcraft

It's hard to tell one growling, sabre-toothed orc apart from another.

Much trust was placed on Legendary Pictures and the talents courted for "Warcraft" to break the film-to-game curse, but this match has ended with a loss.

Warcraft can't help but be a major disappointment, the game all but over as far as this particular fantasy franchise is alas concerned.

Warcraft goes heavy on the world-building with great production design and a serious focus on action scenes, but ends too ambiguously to make any real impact.

This is basically a two-hour battle between humans and orcs, one that owes The Lord of the Rings franchise and the television series Game of Thrones.

A lot of sentimental hogwash about fathers and sons heading off to war.

...absolutely disastrous...

I quickly found myself engaged in its hyper-fantasy landscape.

Jones has made Warcraft into a film that kept my attention and left me hungry for more.

Little reason is presented to like, root, or care at any level. Connection has to come from more than cool looks and cool powers. It needs actions that transcend words and reinforce the destinies supposedly being forged.