In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)

Simply A Masterpiece

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son, two acts committed by the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the evil Gallian. Despite a pretty good and capable cast of actors such as Jason Statham, Burt Reynolds, Ron Perlman, Kristanna Loken and more actors in general this film's silly concept it's just not working at all and even Statham's cool personality can't save him from whatever the heck Uwe Boll had in his mind when he was writing the script for this stupid action film. (0/10)

How do you produce a movie with Jason Statham, Ron Pearlman, Burt Reynolds, and Ray Liotta, to name a few-- and have it turn out this bad???I don't know. Ask Urine Bowles, or whatever the name of the director is.Basically, a dude called "Farmer"(how lame can you get?) goes to avenge his family and save the kingdom of Crapville, or whatever place they supposedly live in. You never feel like you are in a movie-- just a stage behind K-Mart, or in a wooded area outside the local school.Plastic swords, hammy acting, anachronistic speeches/people/objects, and cheesy nonsense abound. Ray Liotta flies around shooting magic power rays at the farmer, and laughing like Dr. Evil. They keep showing the same cut scenes for different events or battles, constantly. The army of bad guys are low-budget orcs that couldn't get hired by Sauromon, apparently, and have no real reason for doing anything-- they are just manufactured to harass and kill humans by Ray Liotta, for some generic or unknown reason. Even LOTR was stupid in this regard-- you never really understand why they kill or harm humans-- they just want to. They don't rape the women, or need human blood, or want the land for development-- in all these stories, they just want to destroy the world of men or some farmers because they are "evil" or bored or something. Well, LOTR uses this too, but it had a budget and awesome battle scenes, etc. This movie has nothing, but some big name actors who will look back with embarrassment at what they did to draw a check that year...

In The Name Of The King stars Jason Statham as farmer Farmer (no, that is not a typing mistake), who is drawn into a battle between good and evil that sees him finally claiming his birthright: the Kingdom of Ehb.Jason Statham (The Transporter, The Expendables), Leelee Sobieski (Eyes Wide Shut, Deep Impact), John Rhys-Davies (Raider Of The Lost Ark, The Lord Of The Rings), Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black), Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3), Matthew Lillard (Scream, Scooby Doo), Ray Liotta (Goodfellas), and Burt Reynolds (Deliverance, Smokey And The Bandit): an all-star cast in an almost all-crap movie.I say 'almost' because, despite his many failings—shockingly bad storytelling and an inability to command a decent performance from any of his stars—much-derided director Uwe Boll actually manages to pull off several surprisingly impressive battle scenes and delivers quite a few aesthetically pleasing, CGI-enhanced, sweeping panoramas in the style of Peter Jackson, all of which make this nonsense just about bearable if in a forgiving mood.3.5 out of 10, rounded up to 4 for gratuitous ninja action. Ninjas can make anything seem a little bit better.

This is one great example I wished only the trailer would exist. As promising as it looks from the beginning talking about art department. Creating the world of Dungeon siege. The moment the story takes place in the forest, no real attempts of recreating the world as it should be. Uwe Boll produced four feature-length movies in 2007. Instead of creating something solid, he rushed through this project on all levels of movie making. Stay far away from this movie there is so much more to see. For Uwe Boll, I'll advise him to take some movie classes. For the time being, I learned to stay away from any of his projects. Camera and Art department and sound design are kinda good. Story writing, editing, directing, Colour grading, soundtrack are all poorly executed. to me, Uwe Boll proved one thing he managed to have a great cast and made them look bad, one of the biggest sins you can do as a director. Jason Statham proves again his fighting skills are awesome, but he doesn't need this movie to prove it.