'In the Name of the King' fulfills all expectations of an Uwe Boll film.

Horrible dialogue, two-dimensional characters, lousy cinematography, cheesy effects and a plot which is nearly impossible to care about, makes it worth...
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'In the Name of the King' fulfills all expectations of an Uwe Boll film.

Horrible dialogue, two-dimensional characters, lousy cinematography, cheesy effects and a plot which is nearly impossible to care about, makes it worth skipping. I have sworn NEVER watch another Uwe Boll movie again.They've proved to be a waste of time and money even if its a $1 pirated DVD. Don't buy it ,rent it, download or even think of borrowing it from a friend.

Now a lot of people have attacked this movie and called it horrible. I will be honest and say its not the greatest movie but.. its not horrible either. I am not a big fan of LOTR and really cannot watch them without falling asleep. At least I can...
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Now a lot of people have attacked this movie and called it horrible. I will be honest and say its not the greatest movie but.. its not horrible either. I am not a big fan of LOTR and really cannot watch them without falling asleep. At least I can watch this movie. People attack boll all the time but I will say at least he tries. Boll tries to make a good movie which I give him credit for. Its not like he goes out to make a bad movie. The story tells of a man called farmer whose family is attacked by some creatures who are being controlled by a evil magician. They kidnap his family so he goes out and tries to save them. He thens meets up with the king's soldiers and ends up fighting with them. Then the king dies and he finds out he is the new king. Then he goes out and fights the evil magician. Now that story does not sound so bad. The major problem with this movie is the casting. There are a few actors miscast in this movie which tend to bring the movie down. Reynolds cast as the king is horrible. Liotta cast as the evil magician is horrible. Lillard cast as the foolish nephew who teams with the evil magician is horrible. Is this boll's fault that they are horrible?? well somewhat but not totally. Yes people I am defending Boll. I have seen many many directors with better casts making horrible movies and yet they are not attacked. Yet boll who makes a lot of video game movies is constantly being attacked. People leave him alone he is trying. There are quite a few similarities to LOTR in this movie. The special effects in this movie are not really good. The acting is bad lets face it but overall the movie is not that bad. If you just watch this movie for what it is.. a decent fantasy movie with some bad acting and special effects.. its not that bad. Give Boll a break!!.. He tried..

In The Name of the King is a truly horrible little film. Then again, almost everything Uwe Boll has ever produced is guaranteed to be crappy. Seriously, he's the next Ed Wood.

This movie almost completely rips off Lord of the Rings...
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In The Name of the King is a truly horrible little film. Then again, almost everything Uwe Boll has ever produced is guaranteed to be crappy. Seriously, he's the next Ed Wood.

This movie almost completely rips off Lord of the Rings while removing almost everything that made the LOTR series as huge an influence as it is today. I honestly don't know how the hell Uwe Boll managed to get Jason Statham to star in this movie.

However, the movie is also truly awesome. That's right, it's so crappy it managed to break the barrier of crap and somehow become good fun. If you look at all the stupidity in the movie, it becomes quite funny.

I downloaded this movie, witch means i didn´t spend any money whatsoever but still i regret the bandwitch i wasted with this piece of crap..

I don't know what this movie has to offer anyone unless you are out looking to watch one of the worst movies in 2008. The acting is terrible from all direcctions....whether it be because you have washed up actors or havent done anything in 5 years...
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I don't know what this movie has to offer anyone unless you are out looking to watch one of the worst movies in 2008. The acting is terrible from all direcctions....whether it be because you have washed up actors or havent done anything in 5 years or more, or newer ones who just cant act, they sure have stacked a deck, a deck of complete crap! there was maybe only one person in this movie who could act at all but she really wasnt a main character. Add the fact the story is very weak yet the movie is very long. Like many others have said its a very cheap and badly done rip off of lord of the rings. I didnt think even with it being january that Id see a worse movie than cloverfield in 2008....then this movie came along

If you ever saw Boogie Nights, you'll remember the scene where Burt Reynolds sits in an editing room with Ricky Jay, looking over the closing footage of his masterwork, the first Brock Landers/Chest Rockwell action porno where Mark Wahlberg and...
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If you ever saw Boogie Nights, you'll remember the scene where Burt Reynolds sits in an editing room with Ricky Jay, looking over the closing footage of his masterwork, the first Brock Landers/Chest Rockwell action porno where Mark Wahlberg and John C. Reilly share some of the most amazing dialogue written by man. At one point, Reynolds hopefully states out loud, "This is the one. This is the one they're going to remember me for." While watching In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, you can actually hear Uwe Boll uttering the same words somewhere amid all the clumsy high fantasy action sequences and hammed-to-the-hilt acting.

It's fitting, then, that Burt Reynolds is in A Dungeon Siege Tale, as a stately faux-English king, at that. That's just one of many astonishing bits of casting in this film adaptation of a middling action RPG. Jason Statham plays the lead, a farmer named...well, Farmer, who finds himself caught in the middle of a battle between Reynolds' kindom of Ebb (not Gondor) and an evil race known as the Krug (not orcs) led by an evil wizard (not Sarumon). That evil wizard is played by, of all people Ray Liotta, who seems like the only one in on the joke as he cackles like he's been on a two-day cocaine binge and dresses like he's in the wizardly equivalent of the trenchcoat mafia.

It gets better. Farmer's son is murdered by the not-orcs, and his wife, played by Claire Forlani (who at one point looks like she ages about 15 years over the course of one scene, without the aid of special effects) is kidnapped. Farmer sets out about his revenge, but not before encountering a number of other amazingly casted characters.

Leelee Sobieski (looking off-puttingly mannish) arrives to play the brooding daughter of Jonathan Rhys-Davies' good wizard (he's been in one of the movies this one shamelessly rips off—he should know better). Ron Pearlman severely tests whatever goodwill he might have amassed from his Hellboy role by playing…well, a medieval fantasy version of himself for a while before dying a rather incoherent death. Kristianna Lokken shows up intermittently as some sort of lesbian tree nymph that can inexplicably control vines like she'd been reading Scott Smith's The Ruins religiously. And Matthew Lillard, sweet, sweet Matthew Lillard, takes on the role of the comically evil duke who wants to unseat the king and take power for himself. Lillard looks like he got good and liquored up before each shoot, channeling a mixture of his psycho-schtick from the end of Scream and Dudley Moore circa Arthur.

The only person on this cast of the damned who gets something of a pass is Brian White, the leader of Reynolds' army and pretend-Faramir. His previous roles include the direct-to-video Bring It On: In It To Win It and the role of Zack in the DOA movie. You can't tarnish a career that doesn't exist. If anything, this is a major step up.

White aside, I'm always amazed at Boll's ability to draw actors that have been in legitimate films into his web of cinematic deceit, especially as his catalog of garbage grows and more and more people should be figuring out exactly what his scam is. It's not like the script offers anything but gigantic alarm bells that this whole thing is a disaster. The plot is indecipherable. Reynolds' stately king (I never get tired of saying that) is fighting Liotta's not-Sarumon for reasons never explained. Statham spends a lot of time unemotionally mugging for the camera and spouting one-liners, making you wonder if they ever had a vision of this character beyond “What if the dude from the video game was the guy from The Transporter? That'd be awesome, right?� Lillard flops around for the camera like a foppish mental patient as he screeches about becoming the next king, King Burt Reynolds periodically says something that's supposed to sound dignified yet sounds deep-fried coming out of his morbidly stretched mouth (he evidently filmed this immediately after having plastic surgery, and looks sort of like F. Murray Abraham in Star Trek: Insurrection) and Liotta is saddled with dialogue that belongs in a Mr. Show sketch about evil wizards.

Periodically, there are battles—wildly incoherent battles that seem to take place within a twenty foot by twenty foot grid of forest where opposing captains seem to be standing within loud talking distance and can apparently kill one another rather easily. The not-orcs look rubbery, and the actors playing them were apparently told to study tapes of the putty underlings from the first run of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for inspiration regarding their characters' movement. Fantastic.

The worst part is that at times, Boll skates on the line of competence with the cinematography. Clearly he spent a great deal of time studying his Lord of the Rings director's cut DVDs, looking for big sweeping mountain shots he could plug in using his filming license in the Canadian rockies. At one point a few of the heroes saunter up to the dark, lava-surrounded castle owned by Liotta, and from the ridiculous panning shots and almost unmanageably malevolent soundtrack, you halfway expect Sean Bean to run up and nervously yell out, "One does not simply walk into Mordor!" Though maybe that's giving the film's atmosphere and effects a bit too much credit. The CG castles and soldiers are uniformly hysterical and look about as natural as Burt Reynolds' face.

I could prattle on about the epileptic editing and ripped-straight-from-the-video-game soundtrack, but after a while I'd just start repeating myself. It's abundantly clear from the opening moments of In the Name of the King where this thing is headed, as Liotta shoves his tongue down the throat of a vaguely confused looking Sobieski, the two of them stopping every now and again to flat-read lines that George Lucas would find embarrassing.

I'm not surprised that In the Name of the King sucks—I celebrate that fact. This is as entertaining a piece of **** as Boll has ever produced. He has been getting more and more serious with each picture, and thus been inching closer and closer to making movies that are legitimately funny, precisely because of how seemingly serious he takes this junk. In a way, Boll wouldn't be too far off calling In the Name of the King his most memorable work—it will likely stand as the funniest thing the guy ever made. Especially when you take a look at the trailer for his upcoming attempt at legitimate comedy, Postal. Yeesh.

I have played the game and the story is simple but not dull. You are a farmer (you are called whatever you want, not Farmer), and you rise up to stop the Krug. The movie is somewhat different but follows the same basic storyline. The acting...
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I have played the game and the story is simple but not dull. You are a farmer (you are called whatever you want, not Farmer), and you rise up to stop the Krug. The movie is somewhat different but follows the same basic storyline. The acting is...ehhhh; not horribly bad but still not so good. Also I really didn't like it that when Farmer was fighting the Krug, he was kicking and punching them more than he was stabbing them with his sword. You are supposed to kill the Krug, not knock them out. I know people want to see more movies like Lord of the Rings but this is not like it because it is not good. Skip it.