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mackski

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This movie was just plain hard to watch. The acting was so poor it looked like Christian Slater just came to pick up an easy check. The director was just plain horrible but that is not surprising because it was Uwe Boll. Wish I could say...
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This movie was just plain hard to watch. The acting was so poor it looked like Christian Slater just came to pick up an easy check. The director was just plain horrible but that is not surprising because it was Uwe Boll. Wish I could say something positive about the movie.....at least it wasn't that long.

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Posted may 10, 2009 10:52 am pt

Govvy

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Have to agree, this movie sucked bad, the beginning started off which had a little bit of a back story, you saw some artifacts. Then all of a sudden nothing else was explained or understood. Another example of a possibly good story ruined.

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Posted oct 12, 2008 4:11 am pt

DryvBy4Ever

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Man, this is one of the worst movies ever created, and I love the video game. It was my first Uwe movie too. Never again.

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Posted jun 27, 2008 11:28 am pt

The_Gnat_5000

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This is a terrible film, the acting is terrible, the story is very sub par. Ther eis only on scene which is slighly interesting, and that is one that actually looks like the video game that it is based off of, or at least looks like a video game,...
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This is a terrible film, the acting is terrible, the story is very sub par. Ther eis only on scene which is slighly interesting, and that is one that actually looks like the video game that it is based off of, or at least looks like a video game, other then that this film is completely terrible.

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Posted apr 10, 2008 2:52 am pt

hongyanbuhui

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don't care!just a **** movie!

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Posted nov 5, 2007 1:59 am pt

kylehannah

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The first ten minutes were good and interesting but after that you become very aware that you are indeed watching an Uwe Boll film. The CGI is about the only good quality the film has but what do you expect from a film starring Tara Reid as an...
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The first ten minutes were good and interesting but after that you become very aware that you are indeed watching an Uwe Boll film. The CGI is about the only good quality the film has but what do you expect from a film starring Tara Reid as an archiologist.Uwe Boll suckers another dying old lady into giving him money so he can bring us SURPRISE!!! Alone In The Dark.You know a movie is good when it stars Tara Reid as a scientist right?Come on Uwe no ones going to believe that you should've just forced Kristanna Loken to do another one of your movies instead.Christian Slater was giving his most half-assed performance ever here and you can clearly see that he did not really want to be doing this i don't blame him.Too many cheesy lines example "I'm a paranormal investigator, speaking about the paranormal, this taxi guy has been following us all down the road." While he says this he says it like he sounds and thinks he's cool.I don't know how nobody noticed the dead body opening it's eyes and lifting it's head up when it was time to edit the movie i guess Uwe Boll was too busy convincing another dying old lady into giving him money to produce BloodRayne at the time to notice.So far the acting,editing,and directing have sucked do i really need to keep going?If you're not convinced this film sucks let's talk storyline, what storyline?This movie has a very odd storyline that does not follow a specific pace nor does everything tie in there are plot holes a plenty.The visuals are also not the greatest it looks like they are in Dr.Evils volcano lair the whole time the only good thing about the movie was the special effects but as we all know special effects don't make a movie good.The creatures were very cool but guess what?The video game company that made the original video game gets credit for that not anyone involved in this piece of garbage.The beginning is the only cool thing about the film when he is fighting a seemingly possessed man and impales from there the movie sucks.Overall I don't believe Tara Reid is a scientist for a second unless she's working at a sperm bank and Christian Slater needs to show some effort, and Uwe Boll needs to create good characters,good story lines, and not just walk on to the movie set and say "Ok everyone go!!!".

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Posted jul 25, 2007 8:17 am pt

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Better tahn its said to be but still sucks.

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Posted jul 12, 2007 5:05 pm pt

Jeric-Ho

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My good god Uwe Boll, what were you thinking! you should have left this well alone, it should have stayed as a video game! well maybe if a different director was doing it, then it may have been good as it stars Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff and...
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My good god Uwe Boll, what were you thinking! you should have left this well alone, it should have stayed as a video game! well maybe if a different director was doing it, then it may have been good as it stars Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff and Tara Reid, these names should have made it good, but for some reason their acting was appauling, which i dont understand as i rate Slater highly, and Dorff was awesome in Blade, Reid well meh it could have done without her to be honest, The acting sucked, the script sucked and the story sucked, ohh and not forgetting the directing sucked! say well away, and Uwe Boll, i would not show my face for a long time, and please people do not send your scripts to this man! after this monstrosity they guy should retire! as he has had no good puplicity from this at all!

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Posted jul 11, 2007 8:18 am pt

shotime1979

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Can I just say Uwe Boll?...Awful movie, bad acting, bad directing, bad script filled with plot holes. It's just a bad movie. Plus, whoever decided to cast Tara Reid as a smart doctor, or whatever she was, they should not be casting movies...
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Can I just say Uwe Boll?...Awful movie, bad acting, bad directing, bad script filled with plot holes. It's just a bad movie. Plus, whoever decided to cast Tara Reid as a smart doctor, or whatever she was, they should not be casting movies anymore...She's a dummy...I would rather bash my head into car door before I see this gar-bage again. 1/10.

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Posted feb 28, 2007 10:40 am pt

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This is really the worst type of movie. The acting, writing, direction & cinematography are all well below par. Uwe Boll has proven himself to be the Ed Wood of this generation, and that is being mean to Wood. After all any movie which casts...
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This is really the worst type of movie. The acting, writing, direction & cinematography are all well below par. Uwe Boll has proven himself to be the Ed Wood of this generation, and that is being mean to Wood. After all any movie which casts Tara Reid as an archeologist is in trouble from the start. If I could give this no stars on this site I would. WORST MOVIE EVER!

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Posted feb 3, 2007 11:37 pm pt

• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
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  Since the film is based on the Atari video game of the same name, it also has much to appeal to headbangers: fast pace, lots of gadgets, monsters, explosive special effects, plenty of inscrutable plot twists and turns.

  by Kevin Thomas | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  Too lazy to play your own d--- video game? Lucky for you there's horror director-for-hire Uwe Boll, who's making a career out of adapting successful Atari and Sega games into tedious popcorn fare that's the ultimate in cinematic passivity.

  by Ken Fox | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  30
  Here is the horror-action genre at its silliest and most uninspired.

  by Bill Gallo | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  30
  Fans of the source material probably won't be switching platforms to catch this bizarre Lions Gate pickup, and non-fans definitely won't.

  by Justin Chang | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
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  A fairly faithful adaptation of what a game is like, but without the pleasure of getting to play or the much-needed option of pressing the "off" button.

  by Keith Phipps | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
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  Director Uwe Boll (House of the Dead) pulls off a nicely staged fistfight in an open-air market at the start, but soon loses his way amid mind-glazing exposition and endless gunfire aimed at bulletproof giant lizards.

  by Chuck Wilson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
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  That this bit of pustulence is based on a video game of the same name is no surprise. It explains the thin plot, characters and abundant gunplay.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
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  Slater narrates as if reading a restaurant menu. Reid seems to have learned each long sentence in segments, so she wouldn't be overtaxed.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
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  Even Boll seems to lose interest as the story unravels. By that time, the supernatural cliches, plot inconsistencies, dead ends and red herrings have piled up so high you can barely see the screen.

  by David Hiltbrand | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
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  Director Uwe Boll ("House of the Dead") has made a cottage industry out of this kind of junk. Maybe it's time for him to close up shop.

  by Bill White | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
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  No better than whatever you might pick up while wearing a blindfold at Blockbuster, even if you happen to reach into a trash can.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  Think of the lamest horror movie you've ever seen. Now think of Tara Reid in the lamest horror movie you've ever seen. See how much worse it could have been?

  by Janice Page | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
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  Alone in the Dark will be the worst movie of 2005. The idea that anything could be worse is the only genuine scare the movie has to offer.

  by Chris Kaltenbach | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
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  Tedious, derivative exercise, stolen from a dozen or so horror/action films.

  by Elias Savada | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  This is definitely for people who 1) love the video game, 2) think Slater and Dorff are eminently watchable, no matter what bad flick they're in and 3) are wearing industrial-strength ear plugs.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »