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In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (Two-Disc Special Edition) | 
| Actors: Jason Statham, John Rhys Davies, Ron Perlman, Burt Reynolds, Ray Liotta
Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: CDN$ 34.99
Buy New: CDN$ 15.00
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 12546
Format: Ntsc, Color, Subtitled, Anamorphic, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 127 Minutes
UPC: 625828228209
EAN: 0625828228209
ASIN: B0013NAMTM
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: has never been opened
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I wish it was better July 1, 2008
WL Osterizer (Scarborough, Ontario Canada)
1st impression of the Krugs was pathetic! Believe it or not, with all the negativity in the reviews I've seen, I think that it is the Krugs that let the movie down. You basically have 1 evil wizard and a bunch of canon fodder vs the good guys. Hard to build up a "HERO" if his opponents are so pathetic. You kill the evil wizard and the Krugs stop fighting and wander off.
Better bad guys would have helped to cover the numerous flaws in the story.
Enjoyed watching either of the "Dungeons and Dragons" movies more.
 You have no idea how horrifying dreckiness can be May 16, 2008
E. A Solinas (MD USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Once upon a time, a brilliant and talented cult director made a spectacular fantasy epic, full of love, monsters, epic battles and noble kings. It became a cinematic classic.
This is not that movie.
But that doesn't stop Uwe Boll from inflicting another ghastly video-game adaptation on the innocent viewing public, after scrabbling for high-fantasy shreds straight from the wastepaper basket of Peter Jackson. It's not quite his worst work, but it's still a horrendous, vomitous, hilariously wretched experience that inspires pain, tears of laughter, and perhaps a drinking game or two.
A farmer wittily named Farmer (Jason Statham) is living in agricultural bliss with his wife (Claire Forlani) and son. But then a bunch of krugs (low-budget orcs) attack -- kid dies, wife is kidnapped. Naturally Farmer vows bloody gruesome revenge, and teams up with his brother-in-law and neighbor (Ron Perlman, who deserves better than this) to help get said revenge.
But of course, this is no isolated incident -- the unspeakable windbag King Konreid (Burt Reynolds) and his hired wizard Merick (John Rhys-Davies) are opposing the malevolent wizard (Ray Liotta) and his vast army of faceless krugs. But naturally it falls to our humble butt-kicking Farmer to somehow defeat the evil wizard and save the day. And yes, the climax will involve killer books.
It's damning "In the Dane of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" with faint praise to say that this is among Uwe Boll's better efforts. After all, this is not only the director who showed his cinematic ability by literally pummeling his critics -- this is the director who has produced some of the dreckiest, most ghastly films ever to make it into distribution (rather than direct-to-DVD).
As a fantasy experience, "In the Name of the King" is dull, drab and shlocky. The settings are pretty but overcast, the "fantasy" moments are intensely cheesy (swinging on leafy ropes!), and the fight scenes are well-choreographed but full of wild anachronisms -- including kung-fu. Seriously. Despite a relatively big budget, "In the Name of the King" feels like a bunch of dudes went to a Renaissance Faire and decided to stage their own fantasy film. After a few beers.
Granted, none of that inherently marks it as an Uwe Boll film. That is reserved for random ninja that show up (you can hear Boll thinking, "Eff Jackson! It's my fantasy movie, so I can have what I want -- and I want NINJAS!"), humble farmers who fight like Jet Li, maudlin dramatic moments, and truly ghastly dialogue. When it isn't stilted ("Those who you fight... we will help you fight them") it's hilariously pompous ("Wisdom is our hammer").
At the same time, Boll is shamelessly aping Jackson's "Lord of the Rings." No, not just the sets and makeup, although many of these are shamelessly (and less realistically) cribbed. He attempts the same sweeping cinematography and score, but inserted at random and without any kind of dramatic payoff. By the finale, we've also been assaulted by airy elfin sprites who desperately need a smackdown from Legolas' long-knives.
As for the characters, you can find them in any rotten half-baked "high fantasy" novel -- aging king, treacherous noble, good wizard, bad wizard, and valiant peasants. The actors appear to be painfully aware of this fact.
To make matters worse, Statham is playing the same role he's basically played in dozens of other movies -- the stone-faced man of action out to kick some butt. It feels like someone cut-and-pasted the dude from "Transporter" right into this movie. Reynolds creakily sleepwalks through his rotten speeches, and Liotta has apparently decided to embrace the sheer silliness and run with it. As for Kristanna Loken... well, she played Bloodrayne. Nuff zed about her acting ability.
The only cast members who manage to bring any kind of dignity to their roles are Perlman and Rhys-Davies. Rhys-Davies actually works quite well as a kindly old wizard, while Perlman brings more presence and power to the screen than Statham does.
You can guess what kind of movie "In the Name of the King - A Dungeon Siege Tale" will be just by its title, but it dips into new levels of ghastly cheeze that few fantasy movies have managed to. Think "Eragon" for grown-ups, but with worse CGI.
 Il ne faut jamais laisser de survivants derrière... April 22, 2008
Vladyk Barnes (Quebec, Canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Il me semble que c'est une phrase que tout mauvais de ce monde devrait savoir depuis fort longtemps... il est ridicule de croire que l'on pourra s'en sortir en laisser des survivants derrière soit... de surcroit quand l'on pense que ces survivants risque de devenir un sérieux problème, on une force spécial en eux et risque de vous mener à votre perte... Bien sûr il faut aussi ce demander à quoi bon cela sert de les laisser vivants... au scénario du film sans doutes !
Un film épique plutôt bien monté, de l'action un peu d'intrigue, de belles batailles à grande échelles, de la félonie et des femmes jolies qui savent se battent et utiliser de la magie sans pour autant être à moitié nue ! Du gros progrès dans le genre il n'y a pas de doutes... Certes on ne réinvente pas le genre, mais la sorcellerie utilisée, le vol des pouvoirs d'un mage grâce à une trahison, les wargs (sorte de mélange entre un chien et un homme), les Amazones et quelques autres détails m'ont fait apprécier le tout.
Expected more... but was entertained April 21, 2008
D. Landry (Ottawa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bravo Amanda, you sum up pretty much my own thoughts with a twist of humour. Mind you I gave it a higher score because I guess I enjoyed the movie a little bit more, although I was expecting more with such an impressive cast. Even though I was starting to be very disappointed in Jason Statham's movie roles lately, I truthfully loved him in this one.
I agree that the Ninja dudes do not fit well in this type of movie, and quite frankly, I don't really know why they were even there.
There were other flaws, but in conclusion, I believe it was entertaining and a slightly below-average fantasy movie.
Tragic magic March 4, 2008
Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
This movie is so unbelievably bad that I have to break it down into parts for this review.
Overview:
Based on a video game, it comes over as The Lord of the Rings lite, complete with Orc-like Krugs, John Rhys Davies, and a guy with a Legolas hairstyle. Bad guy Gallian (Ray Liotta) swirls around in clouds of smoke, and does his business through the eyes, ears and lips of really big Krugs who ride horses.
The only redeeming parts are the fight scenes with Statham, and even the battle scenes get monotonous after a while. And speaking of the battle scenes, we get the infantry and the archers and so on, but why do we have ninjas and Amazonian tree women in the mix-up? (Mind you, Kristanna Loken of the L-Word looks really good wrapped in leaves)
Leelee Sobieski is underutilized as the daughter of Rhys Davies character Merick, but comes into her own at the end, while Matthew Lillard does his Scooby Doo thing mainly for comic relief.
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS)
1. A farmer named Farmer farms his land with his family
2. Marauding Krugs under the command of Gallian attack
3. See Farmer fight
4. Fight Farmer, fight
5. Farmer fights in vain, but lives to fight again
6. The King wants Farmer in his army, but Farmer wants to be a one-man show
7. No man is an island
8. Farmer signs up, but has problems with the armor, which doesn't suit his image
9. Battle scenes
10. Change of leadership occurs
11. Grand finale with bad guy proves that books have power
12. Women totally rock
Characters:
Jason Statham's role
There once was a farmer named Farmer
Who was rugged, but really no charmer
When the Krugs came for battle
He killed them like cattle
Without ever wearing his armor
Ray Liotta's role
There once was a power drunk mage
Who totally failed to engage
He is so badly cast
It will leave you aghast
As he stinks up his time on the stage
John Rhys Davies' role
Though this ain't The Lord of the Rings
We're glad for the class that he brings
And though he's on his own
There's a Legolas clone
To help the return of the kings
Burt Reynolds' role
We're more than a little bit hurt
To see what's become of old Burt
More tired than mean
He's a creaky machine
Out of gas, and now fully inert
Conclusion:
This movie's no more than a joke
Filled with nothing but mirrors and smoke
With ninjas and magic
The plotline is tragic
And it's NOT Uwe Boll's master stroke.
Amanda Richards
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