In the Name of the King: Two Worlds

The only thing I enjoyed about this movie was ....The Cover... It has Dolph in a suit of armour and a nice fortress that was not seen in the movie..... But they did have in the 43rd minute..... (As the guards close the fortress doors and the camera pans out...in between the right side of the fortress and that big tree.....you'll see an Automobile, 4 door I think.... lol) And what was that camera shot with the king setting his wig at the beginning. I thought that it would be significant later on in the movie...but No.. Nope!! definitely not a keeper

First of all, Uwe Bolls slick visuals to well to mask the fact this has an eighth of the 1st ones budget. Indeed, during some scenes esp the fight ones there were noticeable editing tactics deployed to make them passable. As a hole on the fight sequences, they were well enough choreographed, but not all of them contained a great sense of thrill or excitement. Some of the scenes were plain forced for stories sake. Like the friendship between granger and a kings loyal servant is pathetic. The main problem here, is this movie with a $7.5mill budget takes itself too seriously (drama-fantasy) at some points, despite appreciated lighthearted sarcastic jests by Dulph lundgren. There was a twist kinda which was okay. The storyline was a Lil eh and the characters were a lil meh it was a action/decision driven plot to fulfil a prophecy. It was all technically competent and okay. Whilst the first one had awesome moments and LOL worthy scripting, this one had neither miscasting or brilliance. Hard to laugh with or at, completely mediocre, although I imagine the directors commentary would be a hoot.

Im not exactly sure I even bothered to watch this. Just by reading some reviews, and viewing the trailer, one can tell alone that this film was set-up to fail. I tried giving it a chance but the film just isn't good. Not a surprise really because Uwe Boll directed it. The first one was also awful but that had Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Ron Pearlman, Burt Reynolds, Leelee Sobieski and had some unintentional comedy from the lines and mid-evil fantasy but this one was just boring and ridiculously insane. Some would find parts in this as comedy but I really didn't. Even though Two Wolds was only 96 mins, it felt longer. I don't hate Uwe Boll like others. Id actually like to see him do a good film (Rampage was good, Darfur was decent and Postal was kind of funny) but apart from that, most of his films are trash. It's as if he just rushed in production and the script and the end result ends up coming out as trash. He shouldn't direct video game type films, seeing as Rampage was loosely based on a video game and that turned out surprisingly well. In The Name of the King: Two Wolds has a current rating of 3.6 with only 638 votes (showing that most people are sick of him by now with so little votes, but the film just been released I believe a few weeks ago- votes will go up by the end of the year). I know this film was bad but I think Boll has a setup for a sequel. The last scene shows something like it, in which Dolph Lundgren gets home from the mid-evil times to the present after following the "fake" king into the portal, they start attacking one another and Lundgren drowns him in his bathtub. Afterwards he goes in the kitchen then pours himself a whiskey and talks to a picture of his dead war comrades. The camera then zooms in on the medallion then cuts to the black screen. Film ends, credits roll.

I was surprised by this movie. I figured it could not be worse then the first In the name of the king that had Jason Statham in it. That one was pure rubbish! And I was right about this movie! It was not worse, in fact it was better then the first one. I guess the biggest reason is they only had one actor who was known (Dolph Lundgren) and the rest were unknown actors and that the story in this movie wasn't a blatant rip off of the Lord of the Rings like the first one was. In fact I am not exactly sure how this is a sequel at all since it did not relate to the terrible first movie in any way. Don't get me wrong, if you're expecting a movie like Lord of the Rings or Kingdom of Heaven this is going to disappoint you. Uwe Boll is not that kind of movie maker. Yet if you are expecting a great TV movie then this one should surprise you because it was not boring or horrible. I guess I can say that I will probably watch this movie again. Check it out if you like medieval type movies with swords.