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Movie Review: 'Warcraft'

A brief review of the film based on the popular video game franchise.

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Movie Review: 'Warcraft'
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"Warcraft" is a movie based off the popular game "World of Warcraft."" Now I’ve never played the game, but I have looked some into it. It is a vast game and it is hard to truly define in a simple way. However it will still be talked about here for it is what the movie is based off of.

"World of Warcraft" ("WoW") is primarily a computer based game. It originally came out in 2004 as a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORG). It is a game where you can buy expansions for one to play. The main goal of it is to stop Thrall’s Horde, an army which has orcs, undead and more. The game has a gigantic world to it, with multiple expansions, along with a huge history. Some of the backstories are amazing and you create your own character that you can level up and somewhat change as you do.

Now the movie somewhat goes into this world where it can. It would be impossible to create a single movie, or even a series of movies, that fully covers the games. Now one complaint of the movie is that it sets itself up at the end for another. Now that could not be the of the creators, but a simple shout out to the ongoing gameplay. However, since it is Hollywood I doubt that is the case. The main plot of the movie follows the plot of the game.

Now for the fun part of it is the subplots of the movie. It is hard to say what the movies subplot are seeing it once, but I’m going to give it a shot. One is the relationship between one of the orcs and his wife, which is an interesting one because it makes the side of evil that much more relatable. Along with the questioning of loyalties for a half-breed and of people in power.

The questioning of the power is on both sides. The one on the orcs side is of the leader by a small group. It shows that the leader is also willing to do whatever it takes to keep his power and get what he wants. So he will use fear of death to keep people in line, which has happened in our own history. The prime example here, not trying to spread hatred here when I say this, is Germany during World War II. Now in the human side of this is the fact that there is a person that is not king abusing his power, along with letting the orcs into the world.

Now my favorite one that I saw was that at the end of the movie you saw that there was both good and evil on both sides of the battle field. Yes, in the movie there is a clear good side and a bad side, but it makes it more realistic. However these hints make you question who is really good and bad makes it more enjoyable. Like I said this is my favorite subplot in the movie.

It was a great movie that you should see if you like action, fantasy, scifi movies. I might even go to see it again tonight if I get the chance to.

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