10 Biggest Video Game Movie Flops
2. In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Budget: $60,000,000
US Box Office: $4,775,656
Uwe Boll’s priciest flop, In The Name Of The King comes closer than Alone In The Dark or Bloodrayne to being an actual movie, but that’s probably due to an all-slumming cast that includes Jason Statham, Ray Liotta and Burt Reynolds among many others.
It’s basically an occasionally incoherent Lord Of The Rings wannabe with scrappy digital effects, unexciting action sequences and the soullessness you associate with this filmmaker’s video game adaptations. Statham’s the shining innocent on a quest to kill the evil wizard (Liotta) responsible for his son’s death, but even though John Rhys-Davies appears you won’t be reminded of Peter Jackson’s movies too much.
To nobody’s great surprise, Boll won Worst Director at that year’s Razzie awards and later picked up a trophy for Worst Career Achievement. This wasn’t Boll’s video game swan song, however – Far Cry and Postal were still in his future.
What The Critics Said: “It’s completely undone by its terrible screenplay, inept direction, oppressive musical score and muddy visual palette.” (The Hollywood Reporter)