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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Jason Statham, Kristana Loken, John Rhys-Davies
Directed By: Uwe Boll
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE (DVD
EAN: 0024543509110
Format: AC-3
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-04-15
Running Time: 127
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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The life of a simple family man named Farmer (Jason Statham) is changed forever when a horrifying army of animal-like warriors known as Krugs who are controlled by the evil Gallian (Ray Liotta) invade his village, murder his son and kidnap his wife. Farmer sets out on a momentous journey to get his wife back and along the way, encounters magic and adventure as the quest soon reveals his real destiny in the kingdom.
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Summary: Geez, people, it's not that bad...
Comment: My family enjoyed this movie as it is exactly what it was designed to be...entertaining. Geez, people, it's just a fantasy story about a kingdom, monsters and magic...how award-winning do you think it should be? The acting was not bad, and it did have a lot of big names in it, which was neat to see. The magical special effects were quite nice, too. We enjoyed this movie as fans of action-adventure flicks. Fun way to spend an evening. It certainly was not awful, as some reviewers have said.
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Summary: What the hell?!?!?
Comment: I really don't know where to begin here. I didn't even know that this movie would be packed with so many stars I know and love. Well, I guess I'll throw my two cents in:
1) The Farmer turns out to be a top notch martial artists, wrestler, and sword fighter. When and Where did he acquire the knowledge and skills to both learn farming and combat skills? I mean his fighting was above par by any standard.
2) The tree sprits are feminists tree huggers. While they shoo away the males from their forests, they drop their high morals and ethics at the mere beck and call from a female.
3) At the final battle, the outnumbered human army literally has the high ground on a muddy hill yet they charge down the hill ruining the biggest advantage that they've got.
4) Ninja's!?!?
5) So many different accents all around it's hard to believe they all come from the same region.
I've learned to stop buying movies "just" because. I'll rent them first and if possible, get it for free before I ever consider buying it. Never again will I waste my money in making liberal democrat actors rich.
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Summary: Ewwwwwwwwe ....
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About thirty minutes in, my wife turned to me and asked this question:
"Who directed this and how did they get the money?"
Realizing the context of this remark, she is not a film buff and often cares very little about the art of film, who directs, who scored it and so on. Maybe she likes an actor every now and then, but it's not often. Her favourite film is Brotherhood of The Wolf.
My answer was this:
"Uwe Boll. No one seems to know where he gets any the money to make any of his movies."
"Ewe? You got that right," she stated, rolling her eyes.
I think his films may qualify as 'self-published' as he may be printing up the cash needed for these projects in his basement and propelling them forward on his own coin.
Too many jokes can be made about the man's first name and the apparent writing and overall quality of his films. It almost seems like a sport or a hobby for some to denigrate and chase down Ewe Boll movies and write one-star reviews. It seems almost unanimous that if anyone should be chased away from the art of film-making it should be Uwe. Some have even said that he should make a movie with Casper Van Dien and Jan Michael Vincent if he really wanted to do something corny and awful. He might even win an Oscar if he did.
In watching this train wreck, I thought several times to turn it off, but I also began to realize just how close to the edge a lot of these films from this genre border on being awful from the casting alone -- let alone the editing. These are probably the two biggest problems with this flick.
It wasn't bad seeing Jason Statham playing a farmer, named Farmer. Why not? It's actually not that anachronistic of a thing. Someone who might've been a blacksmith back then would've been called
'Blacksmith'. No biggie. Seeing 'The Bandit' / Burt Reynolds as the King was interesting but maybe a mistake. Ray Liotta was the only real draw to this movie and preformed rather well as an evil sorcerer. But watching it progress, reminded me of an article I recently read on CNN where they stated that Peter Jackson (of Lord of The Rings fame) courted Sean Connery with 15% of the World-Wide gross from his franchise to play Gandolf. Connery turned it down, and $400 million in the process. I think those films would've been received vastly different in the scenario with Connery as Gandolf. It might have even ruined it. Connery is quite a presence, but Ian McKellen immortalized himself as Gandolf.
Nobody in this picture immortalizes themselves at all. Leelee Sobieksi proves once again that she just looks weird, acts weird and talks weird. John Rhys-Davis should lay off the Hair Club for Men and retire. Ron Perlman was sadly and drastically underused and Matthew Lillard looks as though he was picked out of the food-court at the Glendale Gallaria Mall.
But good ol' Uwe is cranking out four more flicks scheduled to be released 2009 and 2010. He's definitely here to stay.
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Summary: A really, really bad fantasy movie.
Comment: Ok first of all for those of you that do not know the fantasy genre this movie is not a bad copy of Lord of the Rings. That is like saying that every detective movie that have a though guy private eye in a long shapeless coat is a rip off of whatever movie in that category is most known. This movie present a very, very typical, stereotype fantasy story. It is uninventive yes but it is not plagiarizing.
And that is about as much good as can be said about this movie. There is really to much wrong with it to put a finger on anything, the lines sounds stupid, the special effects is goofy, the story line is so predictable you will know the story 15 minutes into this travesty of a movie. The characters are paper thin, the battle scenes, witch there are allot of, just drag on and on and is badly choreographed. This movie really do not have anything good with it.
The story, is the typical fantasy scenario, the evil, dimwitted relative of the old but wise king have allied himself with a evil mage to seize power, a nobody, a common farmer is dragged into this to save the damsel in distress and he just so happens to be the king's long lost son and the only one that can save the kingdom. The evil mage have an army of monsters that have to be over come yadda yadda yadda you can guess at the rest. There is not even a hint of originality in this.
If you are a huge fantasy fan like me, you might want to see this movie if for no other reason that there are such a limited number of classical fantasy, with that I mean the type of fantasy story that happens in a world that is pre industrial revolution where magic is real and so on, movies to choose from, so we are rather starved in that regard. And becouse the better such movies do, the more chance it is there will be more and better fantasy movies in the future.
This movie do not deserve the two stars I gave it. It get two stars simply becouse it belong to a niche that is sorely limited in it's selection so that it's fans will take whatever we get. If you are not a huge fan of fantasy movies however do not waste your money, then this travesty of a movie most likely will not appeal to you in the least, for trust me, it is really, really bad.
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Summary: Seriously?!?!?!
Comment: I wish I could give this movie even less stars than one. This was truly one of the most awful movies I've ever had the misfortune to see in my life. The only thing redeeming in this whole film was that I didn't waste $10 on it. Instead I wasted only $3. I came into this expecting to see a medieval fantasy and was left with utter crap.
I really like Jason Statham and he tries hard with this crap script. The dialogue was just so god awful I was left feeling I could have done better. The action scenes weren't bad, but it's not like we haven't seen it before.
Leelee was extra, the king was extra, Matthew Lillard's character...stupid. If his character was supposed to be funny I'm stil waiting for the first joke to start. He was just awful. I'm more than willing to say it was the crap script because he can normally make me chuckle. Not in this one.
Not to mention the scenes flipped from one to another and you're left wondering why.
And don't get me started on Ray Liotta. Good actor, but here it's like you're hoping he just did this because he was bored and wanted to do a crap film. Not convincing at all.
Overall this movie is crap. The more I think about the more pissed off I become that I spent even $3 to see this. I mean if you still want to watch it then wait until it comes on TV. Then make sure you have nothing else to do, are bored out of your skull and high. Then watch it. You'll still probably hate it.
If I were the game creators, which this movie is based off of, I'd be so highly pissed off I'd demand they pull this from the shelf. Players too.
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