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Martin Shore

This underrated fantasy epic just crashed the Netflix top 10 and it deserves a second chance — here's why

An image from "Warcraft" showing Durotan (Toby Kebbell).

In recent years, it feels like creators are really starting to nail the art of turning a video game into a movie or TV show; you only need to look at the likes of Prime Video's "Fallout" TV show, "Arcane" season 2, the eagerly-awaited second season of Netflix's celebrated League of Legends adaptation or HBO's take on "The Last Of Us" as proof that the times have changed. 

But long before all those projects arrived on the scene, we got Duncan Jones' 2016 fantasy action take on Blizzard's Warcraft franchise. It's a movie that certainly wasn't well-received at launch (it holds an inauspicious 29% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes), and wasn't quite the box office smash it needed to be (it failed to break even, despite performing very well overseas). 

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