Review of In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007) by James S — 16 Apr 2009

How could a movie with such an awesome cast suck so much? Honestly if your going to make a movie that's going to appeal to LORD OF THE RINGS fans then at least come up with some original ideas for it!

I liked all the actors involved but few of them could fit into their roles well enough that you'd believe they were from that time. Especialy Stathem and Liotta.

The one person who everyone knows would fit into that time period because he's done so many of those movies is Rhy-Davies and then they give him a role that has just under 10 minutes of screen time.

Lillard didn't do bad though and managed to fit into his role well enough and passed for being from that time.

The film itself is a mess though with terrible editing that makes everything jump from one thing to the next with little time to soak it all in. They even reuse a lot of shots of bad guys getting shot by arrows.

There is also too many storylines that are not focused on enough for you to get any meaning from them so you don't care too much about the characters.

The whole filmed felt like it could have been a mini-series on the Sci-Fi channel that got crammed into one movie.

One last thing with noting is the Krug costumes are terrible and are cheap imitations of the Orc costumes.

It started out strong, but quickly fell apart even with it's strong cast members. Skip this film if your a LOTR fan, a Statham fan, or any other kind of fan.

"So this is where we pay for our sins?".

"No. This is where we pay for our virtues. Sins are more than welcome here.".