Director: Uwe Boll
Starring: Jason Statham, Leelee Sobieski, John Rhys-Davies, Ron Perlman, Ray Liotta, Burt Reynolds, Claire Forlani, Brian White,
Uwe Boll is becoming the video game industry’s go-to guy when they want a popular video game turned into a movie that leaves viewers looking like they just swallowed a bug. After turning Bloodrayne and Alone In The Dark into celluloid junkers, Uwe Boll has done the same with Dungeon Seige. The story is video game level, but without a bunch of buttn mashing to take your mind off it. I’ve seen better dialog written for a commercial for dishwashing detergent, and, even with a stunningly strong cast, Boll and his boys even managed squeeze in some really poor performances, too. All of this has become all too common in the fantasy genre, but this entry doesn’t even have any impressive visual effects to take your mind off its weaknesses.
Jason Statham, who is in peril of becoming a Lorenzo Lamas-like B movie king, stars as a farmer, imaginatively named ‘Farmer’, with a mysterious background and some mighty fancy sword skills. I guess a lot of farmers pick up those skills since Orlando Bloom’s character in Kingdom of Heaven had them too. Anyway, Farmer soon needs these skills since an evil wizard played by Ray Liotta complete with his New York dialect, has set a bunch of pig-like creatures upon the local populace, which the King (Burt Reynolds) and his witless heir nephew are unable to control. There is a bunch of fighting, a double cross, and a surprise ending that surprised no one.
The Name of The King is as bad as Eragon for amateur acting, cardboard characters and cocktail napkin dialog, but doesn’t even a cool dragon to look at. If you liked Eragon alot, or are in love with the video game that this one is based on, then there is a slim chance that you might enjoy this, otherwise you should try not to even see a movie in the theater next to it. The stink will probably reach that far.
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