Average Rating: 1.7/10
Reviews Counted: 116
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 115
Inept on almost every level, Alone in the Dark may not work as a thriller, but it's good for some head-slapping, incredulous laughter.
Average Rating: 1.7/10
Critic Reviews: 26
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 26
Inept on almost every level, Alone in the Dark may not work as a thriller, but it's good for some head-slapping, incredulous laughter.
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Average Rating: 2.1/5
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An otherworldly investigator learns of a secret which could mean the end of civilization as we know it in this thriller based on the popular video game Alone in the Dark. Edward Carnby (Christian Slater) is a detective with Bureau 713, a secret investigative team affiliated with the United States government that explores supernatural and paranormal events. One of Carnby's assignments leads him to discover the secrets of the Abskani, an ancient tribe that worshiped demonic forces which gave them
Jan 28, 2005 Wide
May 10, 2005
$5.1M
Lions Gate
All Critics (118) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (118) | DVD (15)
Christian Slater and Stephen Dorff, the reigning princes of Hollywood schlock, join forces in this brain-dead adaptation of a popular video game.
A violent and incomprehensible piece of gibberish.
The garish editing and stilted, exposition-only dialogue induce the frisson of an America's Most Wanted re-enactment that pays unexpected, sidesplitting returns.
When the giant, intelligent bees of the future sift through the ashes of our civilization, they will find Alone in the Dark, and they will understand. It's so bad it's postmodern.
Veers tantalizingly close to being one of those movies that is so bad it's good, but in the end, it's so bad it's just ... bad.
Alone in the Dark is so awful, anyone who spends 10 bucks seeing it ought to get 11 bucks change and a written apology from the director and cast.
The horror. The hor-ror!
Lame monster movies like this adaptation of the popular Atari video game are scary for all the wrong reasons.
The late Gene Siskel once devised a simple method of measuring a film's worth: 'Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?' 'Alone in the Dark' doesn't come close to matching that standard.
There's nothing even remotely entertaining about this film -- audiences should stay home and play the original (or one of its numerous sequels) on Playstation instead.
Any chance for suspense is thwarted by gratuitous violence, heavy-metal-propelled action sequences and laughably flat dialogue between characters who are barely more developed than in the Atari version.
better than expected, but, considering the reputation of its author, this isn't much of an achievement
Alone in the Dark pourrait figurer dans un dictionnaire en exemple frappant de ce que signifie insipide.
Eu devia ter suspeitado de algo quando meu aparelho de DVD pareceu se recusar a rodar este filme. E posso jurar que ele pediu um Cepacol depois que a tortura chegou ao fim.
My most honest advice would be to skip this movie entirely, and by 'entirely' I mean "...even if you live to be 139 years old."
This is pretty close to one of the worse movies that I've ever seen and having to recap it is making my brain bleed..
As long as director Uwe Boll is given money to make films, we are guaranteed at least one unintentionally uproarious gut-buster a year.
So maniacally, fervently awful that you have to step back and cackle with glee at humanity's teeming capacity for irrelevance and self-delusion.
Boll's vague X-Files rip-off isn't scary or exciting, but inadvertently he's made a movie funnier than a lot of the purported comedies Hollywood cranks out.
How Uwe Boll manages to scrape together enough investment money to give wing to this type of overblown, amateurish gibberish is truly a mystery of the cosmos...
Little of Alone in the Dark makes Earthly sense, but it at least knows how to be bad in original ways.
Has just about everything a snarky bad movie lover could want--that is, except a guy and two robots sitting in the bottom right hand corner.
Remember to get your bets in early as the Razzie winner for 2005.
This is really bad, nothing like the games at all. Has some well known faces and the opening 10mins are pretty good with some cool SFX. After that though it becomes an Aliens rip off that is no where near as good!
June 3, 2007Super Reviewer
Uwe Boll's worst, if thats even possible. Alone In The Dark is very bad, with bad acting, story and directing. The film stumbles around trying to find a purpose, but it never elevates to anything remotely good or creative. Action scenes are sloppy, too noisy and not well done. Equally bad is Tara Reid. This is a film
July 14, 2010
Super Reviewer
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