Though indisputably the best of Uwe Boll's first three video-game-into-film adaptations, this gory, ludicrous horror-action picture isn't good by any standard: It's formulaic, tin-eared (which wouldn't be surprising except that screenwriter Guinevere Turner is a real writer, not a video-game scripter), remarkably dull and astonishingly badly acted. Granted, no single cast member sinks to the depths achieved by Tara Reid as a brilliant anthropologist who can't pronounce "Newfoundland" in ALONE IN THE DARK (2005), but the combination of Michael Madsen, Billy Zane and Sir Ben Kingsley respectively phoning it in, camping it up and just sitting around (literally — ha...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
94 mins