Like all Uwe Boll films, it is terrible. Sadly, it is perhaps not terrible enough.
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01/14/08
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:2
Rotten:43
Average Rating:2.5/10
Consensus: Featuring mostly wooden performances, laughable dialogue, and shoddy production values, In the Name of the King fulfills all expectations of an Uwe Boll film.
Runtime: 2 hrs 42 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Much like cult-favorites LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER and MORTAL KOMBAT, IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE is a fantasy-adventure based on a popular video game series, Dungeon Siege. The... [More]
Starring: Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds
Director: Uwe Boll
Reviews for In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Boll has been compared to Ed Wood, but there's nothing personal about his ineptitude; he's just a deal-maker completing a transaction. Save perhaps for his fan club of ironists, movies like In The Name Of The King could only make a ledger happy.
01/12/08
The director, Uwe Boll, remains committed to long, dull, mediocre action films. His tenacity is a virtue.
01/14/08
Uwe Boll uses his biggest budget ever to produce a cheap knockoff of LOTR, complete with an Orc-like army of beasts called Krug, elfin woodland beings, and a wizard-esque magus played by John Rhys-Davies, but without a comprehensible plot.
01/18/08
Boll manages to hold this disaster in the making together by infusing it with unexpected energy.
01/11/08
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Uwe Boll just spent 126 minutes telling Peter Jackson how thin, talented and gorgeous he is.
01/11/08
Boll is in fact fascinating - largely because his movies assume their audiences exist in an alternate dimension of human experience.
01/15/08
I wouldn't change a thing. It's been a while since I've seen Hollywood filmmaking this unsafe and unhinged.
04/17/08
In the Name of the King would be irredeemable if not for its near-brilliant ability to give the viewer douche chills for 127 solid minutes.
01/12/08
Boll clearly still has no idea how to direct or edit a movie, but there is evidence to suggest he has at least learned how to shoot one.
01/14/08
I would like to think that Uwe Boll is not a mentally-challenged individual. However, the incompetence of his movies speaks otherwise.
01/11/08
If Burt Reynolds supposedly punched PT Anderson in the nose for the crime of putting him in Boogie Nights, God only knows what he did to Uwe Boll for putting him in Dungeon Siege.
01/13/08
Though several battle scenes have surprising flair -- Hong Kong fight choreographer Tony Ching obviously came in handy -- the movie’s too turgid to qualify as campy fun for more than a few fleeting moments.
01/11/08
Offers scenic locations, some passable special effects, a couple of large-scale battles, and an exceptionally incongruous cast ill-served by feeble scripting and indifferent direction.
01/14/08
Is it any surprise that this film wasn't screened for any critic, anywhere in the free world? But even I was unprepared for the level of suckage this movie produced.
01/11/08
Fans looking to ridicule and laugh at the newest Boll adventure will be disappointed after the first 20 minutes. It was funny when it started, then it got boring. Too boring to even laugh at anymore.
01/13/08
Another lame copy of every crappy sword-and-sorcery epic ever made.
01/11/08
When King Burt Reynolds says, 'What kind of joke do the gods play on me?,' we feel the pain of a downslide that took him from No. 1 box-office star to appearing in an Uwe Boll schlockfest.
01/16/08
Is this movie so god-awful bad that it's hilariously good? Can't be bothered deciding. Figure that's an answer in itself.
01/11/08
The film never achieves a suitable level of camp that would make it at least unintentional fun. It also is terminally boring at its 127-minute running time, making one supremely grateful that a half-hour has been cut for this U.S. release.
01/11/08
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