In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale Movie
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A Dungeon Siege Tale
A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son — two acts committed by the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the evil Gallian.
| Jason Statham | Farmer |
| John Rhys-Davies | Merick |
| Ray Liotta | Gallian |
| Matthew Lillard | Duke Fallow |
| Leelee Sobieski | Muriella |
| Burt Reynolds | King Konreid |
| Ron Perlman | Norick |
| Will Sanderson | Bastian |
| Claire Forlani | Solana |
| Brian J. White | Tarish |
| Kristanna Loken | Elora |
| Paul Wu | Lieutenant Rawden |
| Daniel Boileau | Slave |
| Sage Brocklebank | Soldier #2 |
| Denis Corbett | Villager |
| Uwe Boll |
4.00 out of 10 (3639 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Nice trailer, but the movie is total loss of time...
posted on 20 Aug 2009I watched the spectacular trailer and I wanted so much to watch the movie. Thou even when I saw the trailer I was thinking that Jason Statham is not quite the guy for this kind of movies, the man's face is for action movies(like Transporter), you expect him any time to draw some pistols from his back and shoot the "krugs". Anyway, the movie was soooooo bad and I realized that since the beginning by the horrifying music which was scratching our ears, I thought there is something wrong with the speakers... but they were more than fine... and the torture continued till the end of the movie with the retarded characters. under-kinder-garden dialogs, really poor special effects and a totally predictable story which could have been done more interesting even by a fifth-grader!!! I will NEVER watch a movie again without reading the comments on IMDb first, I swear!
I Expected Less!
posted on 20 Aug 2009I did not know what to think when I saw this movie. I am a fan of this kind of genre so I gave this movie a shot despite all the bad reviews. I actually liked it. There are some mistakes but not as much as it seems. The main character is Farmer. He joins the king to fight evil wolfhounds and magicians because they killed his son and kidnapped his wife. The acting is pretty good as least for most of the actors. Jason Statham and Ron Perlman are the best. Matthew Lillard was upright annoying. He did good in Scooby Doo, but this kind of genre is not for him. Ray Liotta is so-so, might have been miscasted. There is some good scenery to look at. I also liked the music in the film. Not Lord of the Rings like, but still good. There are some holes in the plot and things that are misbelieved. Overall, I have to say that this is Uwe Boll's best movie. I rate this movie 8/10.
Did I watch a different movie?
posted on 14 Aug 2009After reading a lot of the comments about this movie, I have to wonder if I saw the same movie as everyone seems to have watched.I like Statham as an actor, the man has amazing charisma as an action hero, so I decided to watch this despite what I had read about it. I was very pleasantly surprised.The movie I saw was very entertaining fantasy story with a great cast, great scenic locations, engaging battles, outstanding costumes, that kept me thoroughly entertained for it's entire running time.I would describe the acting as "adequate". Some of the characters seemed over the top and the worst by far was Ray Liotta (I've never been a great fan of his), but overall they got the job done.I liked the magic in this movie. It seemed very "physical" and hands-on. The fight near the end with the floating swords was very nicely done, and all the magical effects seemed "believable" as far as magic goes.The scenery and costumes were fantastic, it gave "dark ages" feel to it, dirty and gritty.All in all, I really enjoyed this movie. I'd give it a 7, maybe an 8, but I'm giving it a little extra considering how pleasantly surprised I was due to all the negativity, ending up at a 9.
Uwe Boll's best - 2 stars
posted on 21 Jul 2009This is not worth seeing even if you are a HUGE fan of the game. In fact, I wouldn't even recommend this title to someone who burnt my house down. The acting is weak, the script is weaker, and the directing is just miserable. However, it's not as bad as Uwe's worst masterpiece, 'Alone in the Dark', so I have to say, he might be improving.Anyway, don't bother watching this. Don't even watch it for free, because you'll still want your money back. It's like 'Eragon' raped 'Lord of the Rings' while it was drunk and unconscious, even though they were illegitimate siblings, had 'In the Name of the King', dropped it on its head, hit it in the face with a baseball bat, and then told it to perform in the box office. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
Too Long And Cursed
posted on 17 Jul 2009In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was too long and drawn out. Lots of empty scenes and excessive boring battling. Anything Burt Reynolds is in is simply cursed; I think that selling his soul to Satan has something to do with it.What ruined this movie from start to finish was casting Ray Liotta as the evil mage Gallian. He doesn't look evil but has bad skin, and all the excessive closeups didn't help the situation. His voice was just laughable as being evil, it exuded a very obvious homosexuality. Whether he is gay or not doesn't matter but the fag-o-meter kept going off with every scene he had.All the special effects at the end of the movie couldn't save this mess, nor could Blind Guardian. What were they thinking? It really isn't worth watching, it just wastes too much time with the same trite story that you have already watched many times before.
A Power-Rangers Quality Film
posted on 11 Jul 2009It's a popular thing, to hate Uwe Boll. He has made plenty of bad movies, and this one is no exception. Some people just trash his movies sight unseen because they hate him so. I honestly tried to give Boll the benefit of the doubt and give this movie a chance, but I was still disappointed. I have nephews who still watch Power Rangers movies and this movie just felt like one of those movies."In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" (too long) had the most potential to be a good movie. It has some talented actors in it, as well as Burt Reynolds. It seemed to have a reasonable budget and a competent set, props and costume department. The music is okay, too. What went wrong? The story and the direction and the acting. Much of that falls into Boll's responsibility.For starters, the pacing is just boring. I just found myself bored and didn't care what was going on. The characters are all flat and uninteresting. I'm not sure there was much of a plot because stuff just seemed to happen on screen for no particular reason. The fight scenes were no better than what I've seen in stuff like the Power Rangers, or Xena. I've seen better from low budget TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer.All of the acting is flat. It's like a table reading with people just saying their lines. We could blame the actors (and they take some of the blame), but actors are shaped by the director and Boll asks nothing of his actors.This whole movies was nothing but a paycheck to everyone involved. No one cared about it, so we shouldn't either.
Worst Film Ever
posted on 07 Jul 2009I have to agree with the previous reviewer. How on earth can you take a band of quality actors (Statham, Lilliard, Reynolds, Perlman) and a big budget and yet turn out garbage like this? I am amazed they haven't been sued by Peter Jackson as the entire thing is a Lord Of The Rings rip-off, Orcs, Fangorn Forest, the three adventurers....How on earth did the producers raise the money for this? And how did they persuade Jason Statham to get involved? Especially after "The Bank Job" was such a brilliant return to form for him.On the plus side the photography was nice, and the leather-clad tree vixens were a nice idea (I always wondered what happened to Girls Aloud) but that's all you can say. If 'crap' was a country, this movie would be China.
Overall not a bad movie!!!
posted on 13 Jun 2009Many of the people complaining about the movie, didn't actually saw the movie, they are making an opinion of the movie just because Uwe Boll directed it ( which actually made some pretty bad movies: Bloodrayne1,2), but not this one, this actually is pretty good, besides the music that is almost in any battle and it gets pretty annoying. I saw other people saying : " In dungeon siege u start as a Farmer and what did Uwe Boll think lets name the main character Farmer", or at least something like that, the fact is that it is explained at the beginning of the movie why they called him Farmer, it was popular in those ages that a man would be called by his craftsmanship, Blacksmiths where usually called by that name, and not many ppl gave importance to what their real name was. About the story, it's pretty much classic, girls gets in love with the wrong guy, a traitor relative, a lost son of the king, bla,bla,bla.... But it is well put on screen and that is what counts, it is pretty predictable but it is not boring, and it has it's funny moments some times. So overall i think this movie is above average. So my advise watch the movie, and don't judge the movie, just because it is made by Uwe Boll, this one is really good.
This is the greatest fantasy movie of our time
posted on 09 Jun 2009This movie has everything needed to be considered the greatest fantasy epic of our time (SPOILER ALERT). Krugs, dark magic, intrigue, Ray Liotta, ninjas, Braveheart, Burt Reynolds, women on magical vines, Gladiator, accents, Neo, and the best CGI since Van Helsing. Like Big Fish it is a father/son reconciliation story. Like Top Gun, it is a story of men at war (with Krugs lighting themselves on fire before being launched from catapults). Awesome.Every minute you watch this movie you will find yourself saying, "I can't believe what I am seeing. I can't believe what I am hearing. I can't believe that humans made this. This is why I am drawn to film."Poets sometimes talk of the "shock of recognition" that is in all great art--that "shock" you feel at seeing something familiar in a fresh way. A new perspective on a familiar scene. In the Name of the King embodies that kind of art. It is truly a film for the 22nd century mind.
Uwe Boll's clone of LOTR is just a wasting of time!!!
posted on 03 Jun 2009Y'day in the evening I've wasted a couple of hrs watching this piece of crap on DVD. Uwe Boll's clone of LOTR is total rip off from other movies and it's totally predictable and unwatchable. Stupid dialogue, poor script, acting of all stars in this movie is forgettable. I can't understand why and for whom this movie has been made? For DVD rental store? It's a real shame that such nice actors like Statham,Ray Lliota and Ron Perlman took their parts in this garbage. Maybe they did not write the script beforehand? Or they are ready to star in any movie for money. PLS SKIP THIS MOVIE OUT, DO NOT REPEAT MY MISTAKE!!! I never saw any Boll's movies before and I guess that in case I'll find his name in the credits to the movie,then it'll be a sign for me to miss it. And what about Burt Reynolds also? How he can to act in such film, I can't understand it either. So this flick is another one stinker to be totally forgotten...BE AWARE AND ACHTUNG!!!
If you're into absolute crap, see this film
posted on 01 Jun 2009Horrible. I don't know how else to describe this movie.Thanks to good old' Uwe Boll, king of the video game-based flop, even this cast looked like a B-list acting crew. I've heard better dialog and seen better special effects on Cinemax late-night TV-MA.Quite a few others have already dropped more witty comments on just how bad, yet strangely perplexing, this movie actually is. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be laughing or crying (or laughing so hard I cried) during some of the more dramatic scenes.Here are a few random bits from the movie: - When Claire Forlani finds out that her parents and son have been killed, the wails she let out sounded like they were sound bites from a really bad porno.- Reynolds, Perlman's death scenes... Wow. In the blink of an eye, you go from dying to camera on another actor and then back to a dead Reynolds/Perlman. No dramatic speech, no final breath. One second they're talking about something mindless and the next they're dead.- Liotta's death scene. "Oh no, there's a scratch on my neck! I should roll my eyes back in my head and fall over stiff as a board, dead." - The tree women. What was the point of having them at all? - The costumes of the bad guys looked like rubber suits with handfuls of mud stuck onto them.- Were they all supposed to have different accents? I wasn't sure if this was supposed to take place in England or Alabama.Take those few things and throw in a terrible plot, worse editing, an uninspired cast, and Uwe Boll and you get yourself a great big steaming pile of cow dung.Way to crank out those blockbusters Uwe! You the man!
All we need now is three midgets and a ring...
posted on 30 May 2009I had high hopes for this movie. A cast of great actors, action, suspense, beautiful scenery...alas the execution was poor to downright shoddy. The script was so poorly done, it left the actors stumbling over their words. The camera work was awful! I'm all for creative camera work, but when the camera shakes so bad you wonder if the camera man is having an epileptic fit, it's time to invest in a steady-cam. In the end what could have been a great fantasy action flick wound up a cheesy knock off of lord of the rings. We had the unwilling heir, the dark lord, orc look alikes, all we were missing were three hobbits and a ring. In one scene they used the same mountain ridge that was seen in the Two Towers when Gimli, Aragorn, and Legolas were searching for Merry and Pip. The fact that John Rys-Davis was in that scene made it all the more hysterical. I sat in the theatre waiting for Leelee Sobieski to jump up on a rock and declare "They're taking the hobbits to Isenguard!" The entire plot was depressingly predictable, with an ending anyone could have seen coming. I give this three stars, only because Jason Statham rocks, and the movie is a great laugh if you want something to Mystery Science Theatre your way through.
In short it was as expected...
posted on 22 May 2009In short it was as expected... The instant Uwe Boll is involved it's a guaranteed disaster. It would seem everything he somehow manages to get himself in charge of (directing etc) comes out the same crap... Honesly.. who is the moron financing this moron's lame attempts at being a director? Give it up already! (For other evidence see Bloodrayne 1 & 2 etc) In this case it would appear someone gave more $ to finance this pile of crap.. and they hired some good actors.. but Uwe as expected turned out yet another pile of crap.Skip it... don't buy.. don't rent.. you cannot get back the time of your life wasted watching this.. you have been warned!
Couldn't Stay Awake...
posted on 22 May 2009For the record, I am a huge fan of Jason Statham and I like a lot of the other actors who appeared in this film, but the direction was bad, the acting was bad, the cinematography was bad and so were the accents. The movie was so bad at one point, that I started to feel a little embarrassed that I had suggested to my wife that we rent this. Everything about the film feels wooden and cheap. The storyline actually is the one thing that had potential, but it was completely squandered in the execution of it.Some characters had British accents and some didn't and they all belonged in the same family. I fell asleep watching this on a very restful day and it was only 10:30 and I'm a young guy with lots of energy. Wait for it on cable so you won't be disappointed in paying money to rent it.
Am I the only person who genuinely loves this film?
posted on 20 May 2009I love all things epic and/or fantastical. Sometimes, they can be a little too childish IE Willow of Narnia, but In The Name Of The King is just pure escapist fantasy. The cast is just incredible Ron Perlman and Leelee Sobieski being particular highlights, but Matt Lillard's spoilt prince is flawlessly performed, and Jason Statham is quickly becoming one of the best action stars out there.Sure it's campy, sure it has a lovable B-movie chic about it, sure the script is cliché laden, this isn't and never set out to be a cinematic masterpiece like Gladiator, this is a breathless, 100 mile an hour romp where good takes on evil and triumphs.The film is WAY ahead of it's time in terms of it's dealing with issues such as race and gender. I mean what other film has black men in it, who are just men who happen to have black skin? Not ONE reference is made to their skin colour, and neither do they reference it. White, black, they are just MEN. No lame "white men can't jump" "humour" on which the Wayans seem to be basing their careers on after exhausting their limited repertoire of self-contradictory humour, no anti-racism "Ah ain't fightin' alongsahd no negros" subplot where a racist suddenly accepts his black brethren before the climactic battle, just MEN being MEN. Finally.For the pennies they had to make this, it's a damn well-made film, I can remember straight to video movies used to be "those films where the helicopter doesn't crash", but now, whoa, thousands of men chopping each other to bits in a forest, impressive though never intrusive CGI, great costumes, the cinematography is beautiful, I could go on all night.To those who have attacked the villain henchmen of the film, the "Krug", they are great! Sure, the masks are set pieces that I'm sure if they were featured in close-ups would look as fake as they are, but Boll knows his craft, and shows them only fleetingly and with enough distance to make them believable.While definitely fantasy, I am glad this film sits more towards the realistic side of things, almost to the point where it could be considered historical fiction, were it not for the modest amount of magic that kept the film within the boundaries of fantasy. Also, much kudos for not including Elves or Dwarfs, whose presence I usually find irritating. "Oh, so this race is tall, noble, and lives indefinitely, and this race are 3 foot tall, dour and very good at digging? Good good, so only the human race has a variety of professions it is capable of and greatly variable personalities?" Elves are stuck up, aloof snobs impossible to relate to, and dwarfs are just patronising caricatures of the Scottish.Back to my main point, ITNOTK is awesome, one which shall be watched again and again, and sits with my DVDs with pride.
In the name of God...
posted on 10 May 2009I took careful consideration of every comment over every website I could before going to watch this movie, and while the vast majority voted it out of the movie industry for some reason, I went to watch it anyway, preparing a puke bag and a hefty amount of aspirins. Something happened though... I actually enjoyed it. Sure... it was a LotR ripoff as far as the eye could see, from the team of adventurers to those Orc-like things that were spawned from the center of the earth. But the storyline, and the overall feeling the movie transcended were more than above-average. First I'll point out everything I liked about the movie- John-Rhys Davies, wonderful acting, as always... just like in LotR (hmmm, anyone else see the irony here?). The storyline - well... it wasn't as captivating as LotR or Star Wars or any other high fantasy movie, that's for sure, but there was just something about the constant betrayals within the King's castle that just kept me watching. Jason Stathan also flawlessly managed to act in a fantasy setting, especially when you consider he comes from an action-movie background. The special effects - some people might flame me for this, but I found them to be more than of a high-standard. Especially considering most high fantasy movies get a bigger budget than 60mil$. Alright, now that all that I liked is out of the way, let's talk cons. - Ray Liotta. Jesus tap-dancing Christ... okay, his figure, stance, and personality actually FIT the character he was supposed to portray. But that VOICE!! UGH !! It was the most stereotypical American voice I had ever heard. It's like he didn't even try to fit into his character. And in the last fight sequence with Farmer, it looked like he was just slapping him around, no real spirit in the fighting. - Ron Perlman. This dude has a history with me... I've hated his acting and his ugly mug ever since I've first seen him in Blade II. He has the uncanny ability to act without bringing his characters to life. It feels like there's a rag-doll in his spot, and someone's reading the lines from behind a curtain while they're taking the ugliest dump in their miserable lives. Also, his fighting scenes are even more horrible than Liotta's. His character DOES fit the role, however, of the consular to Farmer's wife, when they are captured by those Orc... things. Speaking of which... - The Orc... things. What in God's green earth are they? They seem to get slaughtered throughout the movie, but the only type of blood that ever skews from them, is from the 'bosses', and I believe that's more of an ectoplasm than blood. And they look so... fake. Unlike the LotR Orcs for example which actually look organic. These guys look like they're made out of cardboard. But at least they carry on the tradition of all Orcs in all fantasy literature, video gaming and screenplays of being absolute morons. - Perhaps the biggest turn-off was the incredibly anti-climactic ending. It was so abrupt, I stuck around after the credits to see if there were any scenes afterwords to tie it all up. But no... the bad guy dies, the good guy wins... the end. And that's not exaggerated. As soon as the bad guy dies, it all ends. Even worse, it ends with a kiss. The worst-placed kiss in the world of movies if you ask me.Alright, so were do we stand so far? Apparently many more cons than pros, but somehow I voted it 8 / 10. Why, you ask? Well, like I said at the beginning, there was just something about the storyline that kept me watching. It's not BAD !! Not good either, but it's much better than half the crap that comes out these days on the big screens. So far all of Uwe Boll's movies were half-ass-ed and got the ratings they deserved (mostly, Bloodrayne 2 excluded), but I can't find any justification for all the horrible reviews the movie has received, despite all it's flaws. Give it a chance.
Watch only to save your life from extreme boredom...
posted on 10 May 2009If you have nothing to do on a Saturday afternoon, this is a great little DVD to pop in and laugh at. I mean, with Jason Statham (thankfully without a toupée), John Rhys-Davies ("no one tosses a dwarf), and Ron Perlman ("Hellboy") in the cast, you would think this would be a top notch film, right? Don't count on it. I'll even give you the fact that Burt Reynolds plays the King. Good old Burt couldn't even save this one. I think the budget was spent on the cast and special effects so there was little left for a script, let alone to hire a decent director.The special effects are pretty incredible. The battle scenes are well choreographed and the music isn't half bad but then you find scenes like the one with Kristanna Loken as Elora, a vine swinging tough chick who declares that men are not welcome in her forest and has the screen presence of a stick.Ray Liotta gets the biggest laughs as he tries desperately to be the insane baddie. I just couldn't take him seriously and I am not sure he could, either. Maybe he needed the money? To my surprise the saving grace of this whole fiasco is Matthew Lillard ("Scream") who shines as the sniveling, traitorous, Duke Fallow. Yes, he plays it over the top, but in a snooze fest of performances, Lillard can't help but shine.
This movie sucks badly
posted on 04 May 2009Compared with this movie Lord of the Rings is a masterpiece. "In the name of …", it is a bad copy of Lord of the rings, Matrix and Blade. The acting of Burt Reynolds in king's role sucks as always. Reynolds remains a sex-symbol of 60's and 70's without acting skills. Ray Liotta, the evil character in this movie, it plays Matrix fight alike scenes with a fat belly. Jason Statham, the good character was good in The Transporter but not in this so called epic story. I never saw a bald medieval hero. About monsters costumes: even in the 50's the monster costumes were better. The movie ends abrupt. Never in my life, I felt so good when a movie ended. Bad script, bad director, bad costumes. From time to time we have to see a bad movie if we want to truly appreciate a good one.Conclusion: dump this movie to the garbage can.
It is astonishingly forgettable.
posted on 02 May 2009I really have a love/hate relationship with Hollywood. So much in fact that I sometimes fantasize about going all-Rambo on the "suits". Film is not considered art anymore nowadays. It seems that whenever some lame-ass hack like Uwe Boll brings a film based on a video game to the big screen, the result is excremental (albeit from either his mouth or the other "thing" that, fortunately for you moviegoers, I won't mention to spare you the insanity). Boll's resume of films should have indicated to moviegoers that this "film" is gonna suck. And I can never understand why the hell Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds are in this POS? I guess money goes a long way of snorting cocaine at the end of a "hard days work" should suffice but the latter states the obvious. With that being said, doing that provides "remedial" relief for the actors and critics who presumably were subjected to Boll's unique brand of "film making" which I'm sure gave them the feeling of being like Alex DeLarge in "A Clockwork Orange" forced to watch unspeakable horror.If you are a bright, meek, intelligent individual, skip this excrement of Uwe Boll. If, however, you've never understood the meaning of "curiosity killed the cat" and went to see this anyway, you may suddenly find yourself in a catatonic state were there's very little chance of recovery. Spare yourself from this fate. I beg you. It's for your own good.
So bad and yet still so funny
posted on 26 Aug 2009Ahh gez, were do i start... First off this is one of the funniest movies i have ever seen, but all for the wrong reasons. I taunted my friends to see this flick on the first day it came out just because of the fact it was an Uwe boll movie and we knew it was gonna be bad. Everything about this movie is so over the top ridiculous it makes it hilarious. As an example, if you haven't figured this out it's suppose to be this Lord of the rings wannabe movie with orcs and wizards and stuff, with these full on scale wars going man to man with swords and bows. In one scene Farmer (Jason Statham) joins in the battle against the krog (orcs) lead by the evil wizard Galian (Ray Liotta), this entire fight is a piece of crap but all of a sudden a pack of NINJAS jumps in and support Farmer and his men. At this time me and my friends literally falls down from our seats in laughter and so does the other 30 people or so in the theater, and because of everyones laughter it became like an endless cycle of laughing and we probably missed 10mins of the movie.And there's more to it then that, i'm not gonna spoil anything else for you fellas but it's not always a movie this bad turned out to be great.