Crafting a single story from the sprawling game world, Duncan Jones has made a good job of creating an appropriate (but still dense) origin tale. This is expensive epic high fantasy on a grand scale, all looking very familiar but extremely well mounted here. A number of significant characters compete for screen time, some more successfully than others, with the Orcs given human-style relationships and leadership structures to make them more engaging (but still fundamentally bone-crunchers). There are plenty of genre fanboy nods (from Game Of Thrones to Army Of Darkness, and the effects team seem to have bought a software job lot from the Harry Potter and Tolkien films), the film gets away with quite a bit of (fantasy) violence for its rating, and the committed cast sells this serviceable fantasy offering to good effect, even if the film never quite hits the heights of the Rings films.
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