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How sad is this?

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Blistering performances.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

OK, if you liked the first one avoid this movie or try to develop amnesia because they have nothing to do with each other. Now that that's out of the way.....do you like larping (that thing where D&D fans dress up and play live action?) If so then there is hope. Larps generally aren't recorded (due to embarrassment I suspect) and that's what this movie is. Some C-level actors larping. The lines might as well be improvised, the "action" (aside from one scene at the start) is childishly acted and the special effects (with the possible exception of the dragon) might as well be borrowed from a highschool drama class.So if your going to watch this (and I don't recommend it) imagine your watching a home video of some people you may recognize larping and you'll get through it.

The first In the Name of the King movie was a bit silly, but not bad as sword and sorcery stuff goes - and Uwe somehow got a whole cast full of real actors to and decent enough effects people to work on it.This abomination, on the other hand, was so terrible that I, who can usually find some value is just about anything, gave up in disgust after that first half hour or so - life is too short to waste time on stuff this bad.Even Dolph Lundgren, who can usually do a fair impersonation of a wall, was given absolutely nothing to work with here - and I'd never heard of anybody else in the cast.Rewatching the original In the Name of the King is a much better use of your time than trying to watch this thing.

To say that this movie is poor quality would be somewhat of an overstatement. It's really hard to decide which is worse, the dialogue or the acting. Dolph Lundgren really drew the short straw with this one, which is to say that while his performance was acceptable, it was seriously let down by the performances of those around him. There seems to be some build up at the beginning, but all tension vanishes after the first ambush and even the plot twists are poorly executed as the movie progresses falling far short of the plot twists of the original movie (Farmer being revealed as the King was actually a decent plot twist that had some build up where as the reveal of Granger being the King hits with the bluntness of a hammer).For all the talk of magic and medieval warfare, very little of it is shown at all throughout the film, which makes the cover and general theme of the movie very misleading. Never once throughout the entire film is Dolph ever seen in a suit of armor, and the only time he holds a sword at all is near the end after all the plot twists have been revealed (and he never uses it).Even hardcore Dolph fans are going to have trouble watching him in this performance, which isn't to say that his performance is bad (mediocre might be a suitable word for it) but the overall setting, the acting, the story and the dialogue I would advise any and all to give this one a miss.

By second most boring film I mean it was the longest 90 minutes of my life, the most boring film I've ever seen was a low budget horror movie called NECROSIS, a movie with a pace so slow it actually feels like its standing still.However, deep in the back of my mind I don't think Dolph Lundgren is very happy with this film, to think the other potential candidates for the lead role were Randy Couture and Steve Austin (Imagine how it would've turned out then.) the film honestly is terrible, Uwe Boll doesn't create scenes that are great to look at, they are dull and are basically just tight close ups of the actors, most of the cast don't even fit their roles, Lochlyn Munro is completely miss cast as the king, I mean I don't have a problem with him as an actor or otherwise but he doesn't work as the king, Natassia Malthe who is a gorgeous woman and a great actress, struggles to say her lines with a straight face but if you hear the stuff she has to say you can't blame her.The plot itself is actually pretty lousy and slower than a snail, to be more specific if you're familiar with many adventure games where you ask a character a question about something and he or she takes one to two hours to give you the full history of everything than that's how this film really is for a full 62 hours before the first action scene eventually happens.Overall, the one good thing about it is that its a great alternative to a sleeping pill but otherwise its better to go for something directed by someone other than Uwe Boll, I know making movies is hard but you can only cut a film so much slack.