After sitting through "house of the dead" (the only film that actually qualifies as a hate crime), the only reason i watched alone in the dark was to see if DR boll could do any worse than that atrocity.
Surprisingly it turns out that he couldn't -alone in the dark is actually better than house of the dead .However, thats something like saying that losing your hand is better than losing your eye .The more "boll savvy" of you will no where I'm going with this review.....
Alone in the dark is awful- its a generic mish mash of every crappy low budget straight to video B movie out there with an added pinch of the matrix , aliens and a few other superior movies .The plot(which is detailed in an opening text scrawl and STILL doesn't make sense)is self important and inconsequential while the performances are straight from the school of late night made-for-TV-creature-feature acting .
To be fair there is a some of entertainment to be found in this crap fest-but its only from the unintentional hilarity that arises in it : the crappy music video like action sequence, the weak dialogue and its incredibly straight faced delivery , the hilarious sex scene- it all just asks to be ridiculed.
In its defence, there is the odd cool special effect here and there but director uwe boll has nothing to do with that-and the fact that the best thing about uwe bolls film is something he has nothing to do with is a testament to his clueless lack of direction. Someone needs to go back to film school....
Is this a good example of how you should bring a game to the big screen ? Well the answer will depend on how seriously you can take tara reid as a scientist and boll as a competent director......
Surprisingly it turns out that he couldn't -alone in the dark is actually better than house of the dead .However, thats something like saying that losing your hand is better than losing your eye .The more "boll savvy" of you will no where I'm going with this review.....
Alone in the dark is awful- its a generic mish mash of every crappy low budget straight to video B movie out there with an added pinch of the matrix , aliens and a few other superior movies .The plot(which is detailed in an opening text scrawl and STILL doesn't make sense)is self important and inconsequential while the performances are straight from the school of late night made-for-TV-creature-feature acting .
To be fair there is a some of entertainment to be found in this crap fest-but its only from the unintentional hilarity that arises in it : the crappy music video like action sequence, the weak dialogue and its incredibly straight faced delivery , the hilarious sex scene- it all just asks to be ridiculed.
In its defence, there is the odd cool special effect here and there but director uwe boll has nothing to do with that-and the fact that the best thing about uwe bolls film is something he has nothing to do with is a testament to his clueless lack of direction. Someone needs to go back to film school....
Is this a good example of how you should bring a game to the big screen ? Well the answer will depend on how seriously you can take tara reid as a scientist and boll as a competent director......