Uwe Boll is the stuff of legends, he's a director so detested that he's become one of those things that is trendy to hate. People slate him and rate his movies without even seeing them and I find that a damn shame.
The trouble with Boll is he doesn't have a style, you watch a Bruckheimer/Bay/Spielberg/Nolan etc film you can tell it's one of theres whereas Boll has no identity beyond his love of adapting video games.
I personally don't think the hatred is justified, yes he's done some stinkers and yes the man himself is a lunatic but he has done some very enjoyable films as well.
In The Name Of The King (2007) wasn't one of them, but it was passable. This sequel however is a cliched mess.
It was doomed from the outset, Lungren turned the roll down and only later changed his mind due to his divorce and financial situation. So immediatly you have a leading man who doesn't want to be there, and was vocal about this fact.
To make matters worse Lungren injured himself on the first day of filming, this is evident throughout the movie as he is barely mobile and has a nasty limp.
The film itself is a highly cliched tale involving a man who is dragged through time and forced to fullfill a prophecy. Yeah, exactly.
The Good:
Natalie Burn & Aleks Paunovic
CGI is better than expected
The Bad:
Script is poor
Stupidly cliched
Lungrens injury is blatant
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Every fantasy movie needs a black forest from which no man has ever made out alive!
The trouble with Boll is he doesn't have a style, you watch a Bruckheimer/Bay/Spielberg/Nolan etc film you can tell it's one of theres whereas Boll has no identity beyond his love of adapting video games.
I personally don't think the hatred is justified, yes he's done some stinkers and yes the man himself is a lunatic but he has done some very enjoyable films as well.
In The Name Of The King (2007) wasn't one of them, but it was passable. This sequel however is a cliched mess.
It was doomed from the outset, Lungren turned the roll down and only later changed his mind due to his divorce and financial situation. So immediatly you have a leading man who doesn't want to be there, and was vocal about this fact.
To make matters worse Lungren injured himself on the first day of filming, this is evident throughout the movie as he is barely mobile and has a nasty limp.
The film itself is a highly cliched tale involving a man who is dragged through time and forced to fullfill a prophecy. Yeah, exactly.
The Good:
Natalie Burn & Aleks Paunovic
CGI is better than expected
The Bad:
Script is poor
Stupidly cliched
Lungrens injury is blatant
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Every fantasy movie needs a black forest from which no man has ever made out alive!