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Warcraft, the adaptation of Blizzard’s famous real-time strategy game, is a narratively ambitious movie that, despite some obvious problems, manages to fascinate the viewer with the complexity of its characters’ arcs.
The movie’s opening scene establishes a rivalry between orcs and humans and then the narrative goes back in time to tell how it grew: the orcs, having destroyed their own world, cross a portal to a place called Azeroth, where they immediately go to war with humans, dwarves, and elves. However, one of the orc leaders, Durotan (Tobby Kebell), believes that his commander Gul’dan (Daniel Wu) is to [...]