I love the first two Dungeon Siege games, so I was both curious and
horrified when I saw that there was a film attached to it by Uwe Boll. I
know a lot of people look at anything by him and instantly call it
garbage, so before I watched this, I was convinced that it would be a train
wreck; I mean, it's Uwe Boll. He's infamous for making horrible films
that bomb to abuse a tax loop hole that by now is thankfully fixed. I
had no hope at all, and watched it like a passing motorist watches the
scene of a car crash. Upon seeing the film, I came to realize that at
best it was a mediocre generic fantasy action film and at worst had
nothing at all to do with Dungeon Siege.
Yeah, it kind of takes place in Ehb, yeah the main character uses the
default name of Farmer... I could go on with the in name references, but
when you get right down to it, this film has nothing to do with the
first game. Change Farmer to Generic McFantasyMan and the Krug to Orcs
and you have just another generic fantasy film set in some far away land
in an undefined time setting. What's more, the film takes so many
liberties with characters and setting to the point where it doesn't even
resemble the most basic overview one could give of the first game. It
ignores the back story, it ignores what little characterization the game
gives and ultimately, the entire point of using the Dungeon Siege
license was to lure in the fans who, like me, had a morbid desire just
how horribly the film could mess up.
I cannot call the movie bad. It is not a horrible Dungeon Siege film due
to the fact that it uses so little elements that you can simply change
any name and make it fit into any setting you want (this could be the
worlds cheapest Lord of the Rings film if you changed enough
references), and overall the film is not horrible. It's not an amazing
fantasy film by any stretch, the acting isn't award winning and the
movie drags on for far too long because of the extended battle scenes
between the humans and the Or- Krugs, but in all it wasn't painful to
sit through, nor was I screaming at my monitor in anger.
All in all, as I said, a mediocre fantasy action film that just so
happened to have the Dungeon Siege license and did nothing with it.
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