Warcraft Review – 4 Ups And 6 Downs
2. The Motion-Capture Is Solid
A key part of making that duality work, and on a bigger scale giving an emotional throughline to the story, is that the motion-capture of the orcs is so on-point. You rarely think that the human characters are just flapping around a greenscreen play acting, and while thats in part down to solid effects, the main reason is in the actors breathing life into their sparring partners.
Despite being so caricaturish, the amount of full-body expression on all the orcs is phenomenal. It helps that theyre all led by Toby Kebbell hes basically next-in-line to the mo-cap crown at this point and excels at making Durotan, the main turncoat orc, emotive and nuanced.
Now there are some other issues with the orcs and how theyre portrayed, but Ill get to that in the downs.