4) The First Movie Doesn’t Even Successfully Set A Franchise Up
There are plenty of arguments to be made about how Warcraft fails as a film. Just look to Rotten Tomatoes, the critics are already making those arguments in their droves. One key problem for Warcraft‘s franchise chances specifically, however, lies in how totally incompetently the Warcraft universe is established in the film. For “totally incompetently,” read “hardly at all.”
[zergpaid]The issue is that the movie doesn’t set up the franchise that Universal seem to want. It’s tonally inconsistent, there’s no coherent sense of place or history, and by the end, some of the main characters we’ve accepted as our heroes have been killed off. If there is going to be a Warcraft sequel, someone is going to be faced with the daunting task of having to set the franchise up all over again, from the start, because the first movie couldn’t even do that.