Warcraft (2016, 28%)
2016, in fact, was the year that the video game movie curse could’ve been laid to waste. Four major
adaptations were released into theaters — couldn’t just one of them have been Fresh? Beyond Assassin’s
Creed, nobody was expecting much out of The Angry Birds Movie or Ratchet & Clank, so the
waypoint was then pinned on Warcraft. It was directed by professed superfan Duncan Jones
(Moon, Source Code), which turned out to be a detriment — too much fan service and granular
lore with a truncated runtime left mainstream audiences in the lurch.