"Rather than WoTLK Classic Gold engaging with the funky core that makes games such as World of Warcraft interesting, the World of Warcraft movie aims for grittiness, missing the mark quite a bit. It's not going to work. The story is too snarky. This is a world where the most famous spells of a mage transforms his enemies into sheep but World of Warcraft acts as being a green-screen rendition to Game of Thrones. In my theater, the biggest laughs didn't come from occasionally slapstick-filled comedy but from the miserable archmages of Dalaran who's CGI-enhanced eyes are especially ridiculous as you're supposed be taking serious." -- Jason Schreier [Full review]

The Wrap

"Critics dismiss the term'soulless corporate filmmaking' without a care, but films similar to World of Warcraft really manage to redefine what it means. Film adaptation of the hugely popular MMORPG (that's Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) World of Warcraft This most recent video game adaptation is at the bottom of this deadly genre. You can imagine Battlefield Earth without the verve or the laugh-out-loud humor that is World of Warcraft ." -- Alonso Duralde [Full review]

Variety

"Hollywood's practice of turning hit video games into films that can't be watched has not stopped. The epic battle that takes place in"C" in World of Warcraft isn't the struggle between humans and orcs. That's only what takes around the equivalent of two hours. The real tension is with filmmakers trying to make a film with a soul buy WOW WoTLK Classic Gold and wrestling with the absurdity of the material they're working with. It's not a matter of a magician to recognize that this costly and preposterous adaptation of an online gaming phenomenon was destined to be a failure in artistic quality." -Geoff Berkshire Geoff Berkshire [Full review]