Warcraft: 10 Reasons It's A Huge Disappointment

8. Practical & CGI Elements Clash Horribly

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While there's no arguing that the CGI Orcs are the movie's easy highlight, the rest of the movie's visual effects palette simply isn't as refined or impressive.

Sadly, scenes featuring a mixture of live-action humans and CGI suffer in particular as a result of poor compositing, meaning that the practical sets and props end up looking rather cheap, like they belong in a low-budget BBC fantasy series.

Jones also doesn't help this by constantly cross-cutting between the gorgeously-rendered Orc scenes and the more awkward-looking human ones, highlighting the massive gulf of aesthetic quality between the two.

For a $160 million movie, is this level of visual inconsistency really acceptable? Parts of it look like a movie produced for about $100 million less than that.

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