Is Uwe Boll the worst director in history? Only time will tell, but with "House of the Dead," easily one of the worst films
ever made, under his belt and a series of more video game adaptations coming our way, we have to ask what idiots in Hollywood are throwing dollars at a man who clearly has no idea what he''s doing?
The strangest thing about the phenomenon of Uwe Boll is that he isn''t just making bad horror and action movies - he''s making bad horror and action movies based on popular video games. Video game adaptations are generally bad anyway, but that doesn''t mean that they don''t have the potential to be lucrative franchises - why would both Hollywood and video game execs conspire to destroy their own properties?
This discussion leads us to "Alone in the Dark," a movie that is infinitely better than "House of the Dead," but when that movie was infinitely bad that isn''t saying much. This time around, there are actually a couple of recognizable actors and a much larger budget, but the results are still about the same. Sure, the plot is nearly non-existent and plenty of things don''t make sense, but what is most frustrating is that even with no plot, the movie could have at least been entertaining if not mildly scary. Instead, Boll has extracted all life from the film and the end result is a boring, non-scary action-horror piece. Worse yet, it isn''t even funny bad - so you can''t laugh at it while hating it.