In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Uwe Boll

Writers (WGA):

Doug Taylor (screenplay)
Jason Rappaport (story) ...

Release Date:

11 January 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy

Tagline:

Rise and fight

Plot:

A man named Farmer sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge the death of his son -- two acts committed by the Krugs, a race of animal-warriors who are controlled by the evil Gallian. |

Plot Keywords:

Rescue | Farmer | Krug | Telescope | Child Murder

Awards:

4 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Jason Statham	...	Farmer
Leelee Sobieski	...	Muriella
John Rhys-Davies	...	Merick
Ron Perlman	...	Norick
Claire Forlani	...	Solana
Kristanna Loken	...	Elora
Matthew Lillard	...	Duke Fallow
Brian J. White	...	Commander Tarish (as Brian White)
Mike Dopud	...	General Backler
Will Sanderson	...	Bastian
Tania Saulnier	...	Tawlyn
Ray Liotta	...	Gallian
Burt Reynolds	...	King Konreid
Gabrielle Rose	...	Delinda
Terence Kelly	...	Trumaine

Also Known As:

Dungeon Siege (USA) (working title)
Dungeon Siege: In the Name of the King (USA) (working title)
In the Name of the Father: A Dungeon Siege Tale (Canada: English title) (working title)
In the Name of the King (USA) (working title)
Schwerter des Königs - Dungeon Siege (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for intense battle sequences.

Runtime:

127 min

Country:

Germany | Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | SDDS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:12 | Malaysia:U | Taiwan:PG-12 (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #43935) | Singapore:PG | Australia:M | UK:12 | Netherlands:12 | Finland:K-13 | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Brightlight Pictures

Quotes:

[first lines]
Muriella: I knew you'd come.
Gallian: I told you I would.
Muriella: I mean, I felt it. I felt it before you came.
Gallian: You are developing your powers well, Muriella. Our time together is paying off!

Movie Connections:

Spin off from Dungeon Siege (2002) (VG)

Soundtrack:

The Fire Burns Forever

Friday night Hoot

We went to this film intentionally (knowing its reputation) as a means of escaping a really busy and stressful Friday. We don't recommend the film to anyone with serious cinematic intentions, However, as kitsch this film almost succeeds. So, OK, we tried to come home and convince our "knowing" kids that "In the name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" was worth the Friday opener vote, but broke down laughing about five minutes into our rave when they just were not having any of it.

So let me add a few cogent notes. For 'entertainment' value, given what we were looking for after a long Friday, we were very satisfied, though we worried at times that our guffaws and groans, and open commentary, might have disturbed some of the other 30 or so people in the theater (but for their own laughing). King Burt Reynolds? Oh well. We have to admit that Ray Liotta's "Goodfellas" reprise as an evil mage was the most amazing thing we've seen since Jack Lemmon's service as Horatio in Branagh's "Hamlet." Of course, this mention of Uwe Boll's effort alongside Kenneth Branagh is totally appropriate, except that Branagh's "Hamlet" had little entertainment value of any kind. School is still out on which of these two can make the worst film of a decade.

If Matthew Lillard's over-the-top contributions to "In the name o..." (which is all of the title that fits on the ticket marquee at the theater) served well in a film with vine dangling amazons, synchronized ninja archers, prolonged out-of-focus long shots, granular irrational close-ups, and some of the most inane dialog in the history of film, one wondered in that case why Scooby Doo didn't put in a cameo in one of the dungeon or castle scenes.

Nonetheless, many of the second tier characters were convincing and well acted, amidst all the mish-mosh of incongruous effects and disaffects. So there were moments when one, though not entirely forgetting how bad this film was, felt sorry for many of those who found themselves in it. Or should they all have known better?

But laugh! Oh my, did we laugh, to the extent that it became uncomfortable laughing at a screen strewn with dead bodies and actors struggling for motivation. Oh, we could have seen high drama or thought-provoking art, but this way our Friday night was pure poetry...

the dungeon it was dark and dank the bodies in a pile and there atop the smelly heap was Ray Liotta's smile.

his polyester wizard suit bespoke a man with guile but then behind a squeaky line was Ray Liotta's smile

when Uwe Boll directs a film the casting's done with style that's why for evil, nothing's like sweet Ray Liotta's smile

and though we hoot and holler at such feckless goofy bile now laughing all the way to bank is Ray Liotta's smile