Boll manages to hold this disaster in the making together by infusing it with unexpected energy.
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01/11/08
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In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:2
Rotten:43
Average Rating:2.5/10
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.
Theatrical Release:Jan 11, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $4,535,117
Synopsis: Much like cult-favorites LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER and MORTAL KOMBAT, IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE is a fantasy-adventure based on a popular video game series, Dungeon Siege. The... [More]
Starring: Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds
Director: Uwe Boll
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Reviews for In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
This is a different kind of bad than, say, the glossy, homogenous, boring Hollywood bad we get from a Michael Bay. This is an impassioned, feverish bad, the kind that is as pure of heart as it is innocent of style. Ed Wood bad.
01/11/08
I would like to think that Uwe Boll is not a mentally-challenged individual. However, the incompetence of his movies speaks otherwise.
01/11/08
I wouldn't change a thing. It's been a while since I've seen Hollywood filmmaking this unsafe and unhinged.
04/17/08
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.
01/14/08
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?
02/24/08
Far more Dungeons & Dragons than Lord of the Rings, In the Name of the King is your typical Uwe Boll flick.
01/11/08
Is this movie so god-awful bad that it's hilariously good? Can't be bothered deciding. Figure that's an answer in itself.
01/11/08
Boll clearly still has no idea how to direct or edit a movie, but there is evidence to suggest he has at least learned how to shoot one.
01/14/08
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.
01/14/08
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.
01/18/08
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!
08/22/08
Another lame copy of every crappy sword-and-sorcery epic ever made.
01/11/08
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.
01/16/08
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.
01/14/08
While it does seem entirely likely that prepubescent boys will dig the heck out of this, In the Name of the King ultimately comes off as a pale carbon-copy of the Lord of the Rings series.
01/10/08
In the Name of the King would be irredeemable if not for its near-brilliant ability to give the viewer douche chills for 127 solid minutes.
01/12/08
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.
01/11/08
Easily lives down to what genre fans have come to recognize as the Boll standard.
01/11/08
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.
01/14/08
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