Swords of the King - Dungeon Siege

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Movie
German title Swords of the King - Dungeon Siege
Original title In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
Country of production USA , Canada , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length approx. 122 minutes
Extended Director's Cut approx. 156 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Uwe Boll
script Doug Taylor
production Uwe Boll,
Dan Clarke ,
Shawn Williamson ,
Wolfgang Herold
music Jessica de Rooij ,
Henning Lohner
camera Mathias Neumann
cut David M. Richardson
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Swords of the King - Two Worlds

Swords of the King - Dungeon Siege (Original title: In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale ) is a fantasy adventure film from 2007 by director Uwe Boll with Jason Statham in the lead role. The film is based on the computer game Dungeon Siege .

action

King Konreid rules the kingdom of Ehb. He is fought by the magician Gallian, who controls an army of jugs. The jugs are considered to be wild creatures incapable of wielding a weapon - so the magic of Gallian must be behind the armed jugs attacking the kingdom.

A farmer from the village of Stonebridge, whom everyone calls Farmer and whose origin nobody knows, is attacked by the Krugs, his wife Solana kidnapped and her son killed. Farmer sets out to free his wife and avenge the death of her son. His friend Norick and Solana's brother Bastian accompany him.

Gallian succeeds in administering poison to the king, but his life can be saved by his magician Merik. While trying to free Solana from the jugs, Farmer, Norick and Bastian are caught and also captured. Gallian wants to kill Farmer with a fighter he controls and whose eyes he can see. However, farmers manage to destroy it.

The magician Merik finds the wounded and weakened farmer, knowing full well what fate awaits the man, and brings him to the king. Merik reveals to the king that Farmer is his long-lost son Camden Konreid, who was found 30 years ago as a child on a battlefield by the residents of the village of Stonebridge and adopted by them.

King Konreid's nephew Duke Fallow, who has made a treacherous pact with Gallian, escapes from the king's castle with his guards and two legions. In the following battle he kills the king and believes that he is next in line to the throne, believing that he is the new ruler.

When Farmer, as the king's son, inherits the king, Fallow's plan has failed. One of the Krugs directly controlled by Gallian witnesses Fallow arrested and Farmer proclaimed the new king. Gallian then sends a huge army of Krugs to conquer the kingdom. He also finds out that Farmer's wife is under his control and that he is pregnant.

Farmer wants to find Gallian and kill him to put an end to the matter. He moves with Merik, his daughter Muriella, who had been exploited by Gallian, and the forest dweller Elora to Crystwind, a fortress that used to be a refuge for magicians.

Merik is the first to meet Gallian to distract him. At the same time, Bastian instigates an uprising inside the fortress together with other prisoners. In the duel between the two magicians, Merik is seriously injured. Farmer also manages to break into the fortress, followed shortly after by Muriella, who has meanwhile also matured into a magician. When Merik is dying, he transfers his magical powers to his daughter. She is now a powerful mage. Meanwhile, Farmer fights against Gallian. When Farmer threatens to lose, Muriella intervenes. Since Gallian is busy with the two, Solana takes the chance to attack Gallian from behind with a sword. Farmer manages to free himself and kill Gallian, whereupon the jugs controlled by Gallian turn back into ordinary animals and the fighting stops immediately.

background

Uwe Boll 2005 on the set of Swords of the King - Dungeon Siege in Vancouver
  • Filming took place from July 5, 2005 to October 21, 2005 in studios in Vancouver and on locations in British Columbia .
  • Production costs were estimated at around $ 60 million. The film grossed around 13 million US dollars in cinemas worldwide, including around five million US dollars in the USA and around 2.5 million US dollars in Germany.
  • It was released in theaters on November 29, 2007 in Germany and on January 11, 2008 in the USA.
  • The German photo model Eva Padberg plays a small supporting role in the film as Muriella's maid.
  • Metal bands Blind Guardian and Hammerfall contributed to the film's soundtrack .
  • Due to its length, the director intended at times to release the film as a two-parter.
  • Due to the failure in the cinemas of his most expensive film project to date, director Uwe Boll announced consequences: “In the future I will concentrate more on small films like Postal or Tunnel Rats . These films represent my true passion and they can also be made with smaller budgets. "

Reviews

  • Sascha Koebner from Film-Dienst wrote: "[the director avoids] many of his earlier mistakes, for example love scenes that seem artificial or the bad habit of shooting every action scene according to the cinematic regulations that the Wachowski brothers set up in ' Matrix '". The film seems “not as amateur as other Boll productions”. However, the "poor plot of the film in its hackneyedness" could not convince and would "hardly attract a fantasy friend to the box office".
  • Thorsten Krüger from Kino.de, on the other hand, wrote: “With a lot of effort, optical splendor and countless stars”, “the German director is making his fantasy debut” and presents “a spectacle full of action and force through which a casual Jason Statham with a martial fighting spirit “Lead.
  • On Rotten Tomatoes , only four percent of the ratings were positive. The short review there judges: “ Featuring mostly wooden performances, laughable dialogue, and shoddy production values, 'In the Name of the King' fulfills all expectations of an Uwe Boll film. "(German:" With predominantly wooden performances, ridiculous dialogues and a shabby production quality, 'Swords of the King' fulfills all expectations of a Uwe Boll film. ")
  • In the IMDb audience rating, the film received 3.8 out of 10 points (as of May 1, 2019).

Awards

  • At the 2008 Leo Awards , which honors films made in British Columbia, the film won an award for Best Costume Design and Best Production Design and was nominated for Best Editing .
  • The film was nominated for the 2009 Golden Raspberry negative award in four categories : Worst Picture , Worst Screenplay (Doug Taylor), Worst Supporting Actor (Burt Reynolds), Worst Supporting Actress (Leelee Sobieski).

Novel to film

Sequels

In November 2010 it was announced that director Uwe Boll was working with actor Dolph Lundgren in the lead role alongside Natassia Malthe on a sequel to Swords of the King , which is scheduled to start shooting in December 2010. The film was released direct on DVD in December 2011 in the USA under the title In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds . The German title is Swords of the King - Two Worlds .

With Swords of the King - The Last Mission , a second sequel was created that was produced directly for the DVD market and released in 2014. Here is Dominic Purcell seen in the lead role.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for swords of the king - Dungeon Siege . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ imdb.de
  3. ↑ boxofficemojo.com
  4. ↑ imdb.de
  5. ↑ Dungeon Siege: Uwe Boll makes a two-part out of it. Theatrical releases are fixed . From: www.moviegod.de, October 28, 2005, accessed September 24, 2007, quoted from The Hollywood Reporter .
  6. ↑ PC Games , March 2008 (03/08), magazine: New Boll-Film gigantic flopped (based on widescreen.de and 20th Century Fox).
  7. ↑ Sascha Koebner in: Film-Dienst ( Memento of the original from February 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 3, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / film-dienst.kim-info.de
  8. ↑ Thorsten Krüger at www.kino.de , accessed on December 3, 2007.
  9. ↑ “Swords of the King: Uwe Boll does a sequel with Dolph Lundgren” , Filmstarts , Björn Becher, November 4, 2010

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