In the Name of the King - A movie review
Description:
The life of a simple family man named Farmer (Jason Statham) is changed forever when a horrifying army of animal-like warriors known as Krugs who are controlled by the evil Gallian (Ray Liotta) invade his village, murder his son and kidnap his wife. Farmer sets out on a momentous journey to get his wife back and along the way, encounters magic and adventure as the quest soon reveals his real destiny in the kingdom.
Ok, let me start of by saying I know nothing about ‘Dungeon Siege’. At all. I came into this movie not expecting anything, especially since its full of big names. Usually those are floppers.
With that said, I’ll talk about the positives of this movie. It was very entertaining with a lot of great ideas and very much a good watch.
While this felt like it was suppose to be much more epic I think it … failed. First of all, the acting in general just was not the best. Which was a surprise. It felt like the actors just … didn’t care. Like it was something they were doing in their backyard for fun. With the exception of Leelee Sobieski it felt like what it was. A B-Movie with A-listers. We’re talking about Jason Statham, Ron Perlman, John Rhys-Davies, Ray Liotta, Matthew Lillard, Burt Reynolds, Claire Forlani … all of these people have been in MASSIVE movies and are definitely not B-listers.
The effects felt like they were stock from Xena. The main baddies, Krugs, looked .. horrible. If it was a still shot it would be fine - but the masks they wore pretty much looked like cheesy Halloween masks. No emotion, no movement. Static. Not only that, but the sounds they made were completely lame and didn’t really make any sense to their animalistic ancestry (from what I gather in the movie). The end is a typical story end with a few things just hanging in midair.
The music … it’s generally goofy feeling. Just not what you’d expect to hear from a medieval fantasy.
I guess there is a petition to stop the director Uwe Boll from directing anymore. Kind of makes me feel bad for the guy.
However, as long as you don’t try to take this movie seriously it may be a nice diversion and a good two hour watch. Again, they feel like they’re just goofing off, but there is still some nice action here or there.
