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

All Critics (49) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (47) | DVD (2)

The director, Uwe Boll, remains committed to long, dull, mediocre action films. His tenacity is a virtue.

January 14, 2008 Full Review

Wesley Morris

Boston Globe

Top Critic

If this isn't Boll's best effort to date, it's better than his usual output. If he can continue to improve, his name may no longer be synonymous with a punch line.

January 14, 2008 Full Review

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

Like actors in an amateur stage play, the large, mostly all-star -- or has-been star -- cast of In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale look, rather dazedly, to be playing dress-up.

January 14, 2008 Full Review

Laura Kern

New York Times

Top Critic

Uwe Boll isn't the worst director in the world, but In the Name of the King might be more enjoyable if he were.

January 14, 2008 Full Review

Sam Adams

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

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.

January 11, 2008

Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

A plodding patchwork of derivative fantasy-adventure, medieval production design, risible dialogue, unimpressive CGI trickery and haphazardly edited action sequences.

January 11, 2008 Full Review

Joe Leydon

Variety

Top Critic

Don't waste your time.

April 15, 2011 Full Review

JoBlo

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Will any other movie ever be as amazing as this one?

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

LOTR copycat is so bad it's good -- for laughs.

December 31, 2010 Full Review

Sandie Angulo Chen

Common Sense Media

It's not bad enough to warrant burning copies of, rather it'll sit on the back of video store shelves for the rest of its time and that's where it should stay.

December 28, 2010 Full Review

Garth Franklin

Dark Horizons

If you can appreciate bad cinema, than I recommend it, but anyone that is looking to watch an actual good movie, avoid like the plague!

August 22, 2008 Full Review

Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

I wouldn't change a thing. It's been a while since I've seen Hollywood filmmaking this unsafe and unhinged.

April 17, 2008 Full Review | Comments (7)

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Why in the world would I give a terrible, terrible move 1 star?Well, how can I call a film worthless when it's so awful that it provides unintended laughs?

February 24, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Not only is Dungeon Siege the best film of Uwe Boll's career, but it's also guaranteed not to be the worst one released in its year.

January 22, 2008 Full Review

Todd Gilchrist

IGN Movies

Only Uwe Boll would assume that the moviegoing public craved a trashy Lord of the Rings rip-off starring Burt Reynolds and Matthew Lillard, and only he could then manage to make such a potentially riotous endeavor so humorless.

January 20, 2008 Full Review

Nick Schager

Slant Magazine

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.

January 18, 2008 Full Review

Annlee Ellingson

Boxoffice Magazine

...like a Florida dinner theater production of The Lord of the Rings...

January 17, 2008 Full Review

Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

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.

January 16, 2008 | Comment (1)

Chuck O'Leary

FulvueDrive-in.com

This Lord of the Rings wannabe gives fantasy adventures a bad name.

January 16, 2008 Full Review

Kit Bowen

Hollywood.com

Just where this kingdom is I don't know, but since the king of the title is played by Burt Reynolds, I'm guessing it's the Lost Continent of Atlanta.

January 15, 2008 Full Review

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Boll is in fact fascinating - largely because his movies assume their audiences exist in an alternate dimension of human experience.

January 15, 2008 Full Review

Mark Palermo

Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Like all Uwe Boll films, it is terrible. Sadly, it is perhaps not terrible enough.

January 14, 2008 Full Review

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

Part of (the) sizable budget must have been spent on a medieval era cosmetic dental plan. I've never seen so many perfectly straight sparkling pearly whites in a time of brutes and hand-to-hand brutality.

January 14, 2008 | Comment (1)

Larry Ratliff

San Antonio Express-News

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.

January 14, 2008 Full Review

Daniel Eagan

Film Journal International

A magnum dopus so utterly inept that it somehow comes off as perversely admirable. The other two people at Friday's matinee seemed to enjoy it, too.

January 14, 2008 Full Review

Andrew Wright

Portland Mercury

• 1. Norick: I was just talking.
  2. Farmer: Well, everyone's got a talent. 'Just talking' seems to be yours.
  – Submitted by Jed G (4 months ago)
• 1. Merick: Sometimes, the Gods know what's best for us.
  2. King Konreid: What the hell does that mean!?
  – Submitted by Adrian G (19 months ago)
• 1. Farmer: There's something I've always wanted to tell you. I love you.
  – Submitted by Adrian G (19 months ago)
• 1. Norick: Give me the chicken! [Holds chicken making chomping noises]
  2. Norick: Arf! Arf! Arf!
  – Submitted by Adrian G (19 months ago)
• 1. Muriella: I knew you'd come.
  2. Gallian: I told you I would.
  3. Muriella: I mean, I felt it. I felt it before you came.
  – Submitted by Adrian G (19 months ago)

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