a5c7b9f00b Edward Carnby, detective of the paranormal, unexplained and supernatural, investigates a mystery (the recent death of a friend) with clues leading to &quot;Shadow Island&quot; that brings him face to face with bizarre horrors that prove both psychologically disturbing and lethal,he discovers that evil demons worshiped by an ancient culture called the Abskani are planning on coming back to life in the 21st century to once again take over the world… and only he and a young genius anthropologist with an incredible memory (and his ex-girlfriend), Aline Cedrac, stand in their way, at a gateway to hell. Standing in Carnby&#39;s way, however, is the impact that a brief encounter with an evil spirit called the Queen had upon his mind,he slowly finds himself overpowered by the forces of darknessthey eat away at his very sanity… A detective of the paranormal slowly unravels mysterious events with deadly results. For a while I&#39;d heard many stories and remarks about Uwe Boll and his merciless take on films adapted from video games. I learned to hate him easily through others and just how his movies appeared from the trailers, etc. but I decided that if I was truly going to comment on him and his work I&#39;d have to sit through one of his flicks. After sitting through Alone in the Dark I have to say that I expected far worse. Plenty has been said about Uwe&#39;s talentless take on video game-based movies, but I think there&#39;s a lot worse out there than this movie. Sure the story was confusing, the plot badly paced, the acting was obviously substandard, the dialogue was just plain awful, various roles were miscast (I fully agree with masses when it comes to the truly misplaced Tara Reid) and I still believe Uwe&#39;s suffering from a massive delusion of grandeur and needs a stiff reality check…but it didn&#39;t make my eyes bleed or anything. Visual effects were so-so, MAYBE a little better than I expected, and that&#39;s the only thing even remotely close to praise that this movie&#39;s going to get from me. I quickly and easily compare it to those laughable straight-to-video/made-for-TV B-movies, it&#39;s not going to win any awards (aside from the occasional Razzie) but it just might keep you mildly entertained if you catch it for free somewhere. Try to imagine a step or two or twelve down from Resident Evil (or it&#39;s sequel) and you&#39;ve got this. If you enjoyed Starship Troopers: Hero of the Federation, any of Uwe Boll&#39;s films, or any made-for-TV recently (eg. Category 6: Day of Destruction or Category 7: The End of the World) then catch this one, otherwise steer clear or at least proceed with plenty caution. Edward Carnby, detective of the paranormal, unexplained and supernatural, investigates a mystery (the recent death of a friend) with clues leading to &quot;Shadow Island&quot; that brings him face to face with bizarre horrors that prove both psychologically disturbing and lethal,he discovers that evil demons worshiped by an ancient culture called the Abskani are planning on coming back to life in the 21st century to once again take over the world… and only he and a young genius anthropologist with an incredible memory (and his ex-girlfriend), Aline Cedrac, stand in their way, at a gateway to hell. Standing in Carnby&#39;s way, however, is the impact that a brief encounter with an evil spirit called the Queen had upon his mind,he slowly finds himself overpowered by the forces of darknessthey eat away at his very sanity…<br/><br/>Uwe Boll became known to the world with the video game horror based film House of the Dead. After the horrible reviews and box office, someone somewhere decided to let Uwe Boll destroy another video game franchise, this time it&#39;s another horror video game, Alone in the Dark. Which frankly is how you should watch the movie, if you have to that is.<br/><br/>Alone in the Dark goes wrong in so many directions, the first would have to be the screenplay, which has too many plot holes and confusing storyline that no one can tell what is going on. Throw into the mix a director that has no clue what he is doing except throwing an explosion here and a shootout there. Boll did one thing right, make the movie about soldiers shooting creatures, instead of your everyday party goers, suchseen in House.<br/><br/>Alone in the Dark suffers from a lot of different things, but even if you didn&#39;t know who Uwe Boll is or how bad the script actually is, you must be able to notices the horrible casting job. Who in their right mind would think of Tara Reid for a genius anthropologist? Her lines range from horribly delivered, to &quot;hey look over here&quot; or &quot;hey check this out&quot;. Slater plays an Indiana Jones type character, who lacks the charm, wit, courage, intelligence…basically everything that makes Indiana Jones.<br/><br/>Stephen Dorff isn&#39;t that bad of an actor, he just has the unfortunate curse of choosing bad movie roles. Either he needs a new agent, or needs to get better material thrown his way. Frankly military leader hunting the beast who has conflict with the lead character doesn&#39;t do him justice.<br/><br/>A lot of the scenes are laughable when Boll tries to make them hip for the new generation. Suchthe characters being in total darkness, then shooting the bullets that have lights on them which light up the characters and the screen. Boll should take some directing lessons and not try to make something look appealing.<br/><br/>It&#39;s obvious that Boll doesn&#39;t care about the story, or just doesn&#39;t understand it, the characters, the music, basically everything that makes a movie with the exception of special effects. Boll tries to make the film cool with it&#39;s &quot;slo-mo&quot; and of course the shot where the monster jumps at the screen.<br/><br/>Apparently someone out there thinks Boll is doing something right because he has numerous video game titles on the way, next up is Bloodrayne. I can only hope that when FarCry hits the theatres he will learn from his mistakes and make at least a decent film for once in his life. So inept on every level, you wonder why the distributor didn't release it straight to video, or better, toss it directly into the trash.
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