Amateurish License waste

Often requires only the pure mention of the name "Uwe Boll", the screaming can look into the distance the inclined horror movie fan. Finally, the multi-nominated for the Golden Raspberry literary scholars joined (he even has a PhD!) Regularly in the past through numerous films miserable in appearance. The majority of his concoctions based on more or less well-known video games, and this is a game implementation. "Name of the King" is dedicated to the PC Hack & Slay "Dungeon Siege", and tried it, swim along in the currently successful fantasy wave, which was at that time triggered again by the Lord of the Rings trilogy and still find no end. Yesterday the strip made its way into my home theater. Here we go ...

In the fantasy world of Ehb some are in disarray: a sudden dive hordes of vicious pitcher (no, This is not about Tatort commissioners, and also the German spelling I am well versed in so far that I do not confuse that with the majority of a drinking vessel. Krug's are exactly the same as orcs. Just not green.) on, and fall on villages and towns. The malicious magician rehearses Gallian namely the insurgency, will subjugate the land and usurp the crown itself. This, however, is still sitting bombproof on the skull of not dying ending Konreid king, and therefore it still requires additional support from the treacherous Duke Fallow to get closer to this goal. In addition, there's a magician and a magician, no one knows that it is a, a saber-wielding, heroic farmer and his kriegswütige clan, a bunch of wayward Wood Elves and some demonic horsemen princes. Oh, and there are still six ninjas. How come, remains a mystery, probably they have just made a mistake in turning in the set. And our Uwe raises halt everything before the camera, which is not fast enough on the tree.

The story thus fits several times a folded Coaster. What fills the Lord literary scholar so logically the potent run length of more than two hours? Well, mainly with exuberant, clumsily twisted battle scenes and never-wollendem ramblings. The performers do not even try to play against the stupid script, most mime rattle down their fluctuating between momentous but equally hollow phrases and unintentionally comical commentary text. And that, although on the canvas fortunately nearly a dozen familiar faces romps. Nevertheless, the lead performances are to say the least, highly disappointing. Burt Renyolds tried his (Prinzenrolle) King role to give some smugness, but instead acts as old bored rather abundant. Jason Statham as Farmer and nameless hero of the story is doing what he always does: Evil look and bashing everything that respectively Swords runs before fists. Even the news that he was the heir to the throne, he takes on relatively calm. The most rewarding roles have, as so often, the villains. Matthew Lillard charged furiously, which goes well with his role as trotteligem, vile traitor. And Ray Liotta can at least halfway convincing as villain, but a chore antrainierter nastier view is sufficient to fill the role entirely. The other characters are simply not worth mentioning.

What the film now mostly missing is a mythological substructure, the fascination of a strange fantasy world, and at least a minimum level of believable character depth. Instead of simply Standardkram is unwound, many, almost all questions remain unanswered. Why can not the unnamed farmer as good fight? Why are there only two magicians, what happened to the others? Why does one siege engines in a battle (in the forest !!!) with and where the hell the Ninjas coming?
Well, not too much is the simple presentation ago anyway, because you might have better filmed another game, such as Gothic. But where are the fantastic mythical creatures and monsters from the game template? Where is the magic of the is easy to see too little? And why the hell just smells every second scene after the Lord of the Rings, without even beginning to achieve its level?
Questions, questions. But the fact is that neither the escalating battles nor the special effects are convincing. The battles take way too long, and Uwe Boll has not the slightest sense of staging an exciting and precise scene cut. Even scenes with voltage potential are consistently messed up, such as crossing the deep ravine by zip line that runs completely harmless and without any tension. Quantity instead of quality precisely. Some of CGI tricks act as cheaply as if they were out of a computer game. Benevolent, one could now understand this as an ironic throwback to submit, in a movie with 60-million budget that comes but rather a disgrace equal. Unfortunately, the soundtrack is the optical disaster after barely, in most places, the background music is totally misplaced. Mostly the Ochester droning just uninspieriert to himself, even in the wildest battles through a muzak, with which one could also accompany "The most beautiful railway routes in Germany" ... incomprehensible.
A few things the film has at least on its plus side: The decor is neat, especially the armor of the soldiers are smart and well designed. The landscapes in Canada are quite worth seeing. In addition, the strip is not quite as bad as the Dungeons & Dragons-film adaptation. And after all, is at the end of the film omitted escalating pomp and lard, after the villain is dead, mans has namely also equal behind.

The conclusion is sobering: Although the strip is not quite as grottig like other bastions (haha!), A good movie but still miles away.
If you dumb, meaningless crap Klopp using it as a template for a movie, and not even the smallest spark to contribute their own creativity knows just something like "Name of the King" comes out. The film is all around a single, endless nuisance. I'm still waiting for the day when Uwe Boll "Tetris" filmed. Since he can not do much wrong after all. Or is it?