Warcraft Review – 4 Ups And 6 Downs
2. The Tactless, Trope Heavy Script
Whats so disappointing about this being a Duncan Jones film is how much it just wallows in convention. His previous films felt fresh and unreliant on hard-fast genre tropes, but this one just repeats so much that weve seen before.
The dialogue is like the work of a video game script-writer circa 2005 - generic old-timey language mixed with fantasy inflections that the actors clearly dont fully understand - and delivers what exposition we do get in such an obvious way. Its also incredibly oddly structured, with lots of cheap narrative clichés popping up; something is revealed about a character and the next scene we see them doing that explicit thing.
Of course, some of this is going to stem from those problems in the edit, but that doesnt really excuse it at all.