Warcraft: 10 Reasons It's A Huge Disappointment
5. Generic & Dull Action
If there's one area where Warcraft would unquestionably succeed, it's the action, right? Well, aside from the fact that there's nowhere near as much of it as you would expect, the action that is there is for the most part overly familiar and just pretty...boring.
It's all hack-and-slash nonsense you've probably seen in about a dozen fantasy films before, and none of it feels particularly fresh or unique. It's serviceable at best, and ennui-inducing at worst.
There's just very little to distinguish it from other movies in the genre, and Jones doesn't manage to make it feel especially epic or exciting.
It also doesn't help that most of the action is broken up into chunks rather than sustained: Jones cuts to talkier scenes in-between all the fighting rather than just let us savour it.