In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2006)
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Critics 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.
Critics 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.
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Uwe Boll's fantasy adventure film In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale stars Jason Statham as Farmer, a simple man from the Kingdom of Ehb whose goal as the story begins is to care for his family. However, when the power-hungry Gallian (Ray Liotta) invades the kingdom, Farmer must abandon his simple existence in order to rescue his wife (Claire Forlani) and save his king (Burt Reynolds). This film is a cinematic adaptation of the video game Dungeon Siege. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Rating:
- PG-13 (for intense battle sequences)
- Genre:
- Action & Adventure , Classics , Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Directed By:
- Uwe Boll
- Written By:
- Doug Taylor
- In Theaters:
- Nov 3, 2006 Wide
- On DVD:
- Apr 15, 2008
- US Box Office:
- $4.5M
- Runtime:
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Cast
as Farmer
as Muriella
as Merick
as Norick
as Solana
as Elora
as Duke Fallow
as Commander Tarish
as General Backler
as Bastian
as Gallian
as King Konreid
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All Critics (49) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (47) | DVD (2)
Don't waste your time.
Will any other movie ever be as amazing as this one?
LOTR copycat is so bad it's good -- for laughs.
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.
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!
I wouldn't change a thing. It's been a while since I've seen Hollywood filmmaking this unsafe and unhinged.
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?
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.
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.
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.
...like a Florida dinner theater production of The Lord of the Rings...
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.
This Lord of the Rings wannabe gives fantasy adventures a bad name.
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.
Boll is in fact fascinating - largely because his movies assume their audiences exist in an alternate dimension of human experience.
Like all Uwe Boll films, it is terrible. Sadly, it is perhaps not terrible enough.
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.
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.
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.
Brevity is the soul of camp, and at close to two-and-a-half hours, Boll's film is just too exhausting to be fun.
Audience Reviews for In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Tons of stars means I will give this 2 stars. Thats it. This movie was so bad for what it was . . . just a shame.
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This is a terrible film all the way, God knows how they got such a good cast. It rips off so many good, bad and old fantasy films and not in a good way either, just in a hammy cheap way. The story is the usual old rubbish, the effects are poor and the acting is real cheese.
They also manage to stick some martial arts nonsense in there too, as hordes of faceless monster baddies get their arses kicked by the ugly looking Statham without realising once this guy might be a bit good.
Everything is predictable and cliched to the max, it gets two stars for some nice cgi landscapes here and there.
Could of been a cool homage to the old hack n slash Capcom arcade games 'Dungeons & Dragons'...if you get me, but they just go down the overly used martial route these days.
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Uwe Boll attempts to make his very own Lord of the Rings and the results are hilarious. I mean, I've seen some bad writing in my life, but this movie has got to take the prize. Combine that with cringe-worthy acting, videogame-ish CGI, crappy editing and questionable directing, and you have a disaster waiting to happen. The whole movie is constructed like a house built together with cheap glue and ducktape, where the only saving grace was its adequate portion of mindless action. Or, in my case, the cool sensation of having met two of the actors in the film in real life (John-Rhys Davies and Ron Perlman). Anyway, as a final word to Uwe, I'd just like to vent the following: Please, I beg you! Stop destroying all these great concepts and respectable game titles! Stop squandering away so many good actors and rid us of the tragedy and misery that is your film-making! Because whatever ego trip you're on, trust me, you're not making the world into a better place. Oh, and by the way, the next time you attempt to make a fantasy movie, try not to include ninjas and boomerangs.
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In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale Quotes
- Norick:
- I was just talking.
- Farmer:
- Well, everyone's got a talent. 'Just talking' seems to be yours.
- Merick:
- Sometimes, the Gods know what's best for us.
- King Konreid:
- What the hell does that mean!?
- Farmer:
- There's something I've always wanted to tell you. I love you.
- Norick:
- Give me the chicken! [Holds chicken making chomping noises]
- Norick:
- Arf! Arf! Arf!
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