8 Recent Movies Most Obviously Ruined By Bad Editing

8. Warcraft Cut Out All The Explanation

Warcraft had people’s attention more than any other long-gestating video game movie thanks to Duncan Jones; the last time a tricky fantasy had been adapted by an unbeatable up-and-comer we’d got The Lord Of The Rings. However, unlike Peter Jackson’s opus, Warcraft stumbled in making its world of different coloured orcs, bickering humans and CGI-extended sets accessible. There’s no establishing of the universe, and what is given out within the dialogue is so mumbled it’s basically alien.

Part of this may be Jones getting blinded by being a big fan of the game (or Universal not caring about the audience outside Blizzard's millions of subscribers), but a big part is a lack of general narrative coherence, something that comes from a troubled edit.

Jones reportedly had to shave a good forty minutes from the film, ruining the plot's flow and the character’s likability, something he’s been pretty blunt about in a recent interview.

Worst Moment: The magically disappearing human army.

At the end of the film we get a big battle that comes out of nowhere, although that suddenness is nothing on its resolution; somewhere in the melee, Jones managed to have the entire human army just disappear through the teleporter without showing it. Couple this with the barely explained sacrifice of Dominic Cooper’s King and it’s a wonder even China can want a sequel.