Very disappointing...

Sadly Over-hyped

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

I'm a real movie afficionado, as many of you are. I like quality movies, regardless of plot. I'm no snob. But you can't fool me, because I know you've done the same mistakes I have as an adult: Watch complete crap til the bitter end! What's my defence, you ask? Just got Netflix. It just appeared there. I had time to spare.This starts as a standard horror movie, and no spoiler, this is the lines written before the movie starts; about ancient forgotten native Americans nobody remembers but they screwed up and opened a portal they FORGOT to close, to a dimension with horrible being wanting to take over earth. Good job there! But it's got Slater and Dorff in it, it could not be...that bad, right? AND - it's got lots of artefacts! Artefacts are cool, right? (20 Of them!!)About 15-25 minutes in you realise this is just not a sub-par horror flick, it's a punishment, it's actual abuse of adult viewers. I mean, I'm putting my rep on the line here telling you I've seen this. Can I write a best seller about this at least...and get some money? "I saw Alone in the dark - How I got back to life".But...maybe...maybe it will get better? Then the monsters enter the stage, and if you like man-sized dinosaurs, this is your gig! But then they start playing Marilyn Manson and a SWAT team comes into the picture and it's in slow motion and pale weirdos appear too. I didn't want this!! I want to be happily scared a bit.People - we got to fight this kind of abuse of horror film lovers around the globe. Unite!PS. Do not watch this. It may cause serious trauma.

Based on a popular yet aged video game I was surprised to see this was even a thing seeing as I had never heard much about the old or later games.I was actually a huge fan of the latest Alone In The Dark game (2008) and I like Christian Slater as an actor so I was expecting to have an enjoyable lazy watch. However this was not the case with the very simple and bland script, visual effects that seemed very aged and the overall disappointing film.I could have afforded to go on a tangent or two with the characters and story and defiantly needed to be slowed down. It's defiantly not a film worth checking out.

The best parts of this film is 5 or so minutes in the fight across town and the end credit music.There.TL:DRReid is there for target audience eye candy and Dorff and Christian Whats-his-fa Slater! Dorff and Slater are both forgettable (Dorff being the more watchable of the two). The supporting cast is LOL. The writing is LOL, the whole damn thing is bare LOLz, fam.In fact, go ahead. Watch it. Rather then watch excellent hyped up movies. Go watch this one. It's practically 'How Not To Do A Movie LOL' 101. Knock knock. Who's there? LOL.

I'm in no hurry to get in the boxing ring with director Uwe Boll, a man who has been known to use his pugilistic skills to silence his less favourable critics, but I have got to say that this horror/action film (apparently based on an Atari video game) is utterly diabolical—far worse than I ever expected (my opinion of Boll had been reasonably high after seeing Rampage, which was surprisingly effective).The long-winded opening narration is the first clue that this is going to stink: ancient civilisations, evil creatures from another world, a secret organisation devoted to investigation of the paranormal, and a mad scientist experimenting on orphaned children are clumsily thrown together in an attempt to establish the background to the film, but they only succeed in confusing the viewer before things have even begun. Matters are made even more incomprehensible with a prologue that occurs '22 years ago' but which segues into the present day and proceeds to introduce even more mind-bogglingly random elements to ensure that even the most astute of viewers will be completely baffled.As the film progresses, more and more nonsensical garbage is haphazardly thrown into the mix, Boll's pointless directorial stylisms making everything impossible to follow, with the occasional voice-over by Christian Slater (intended to help explain matters) only adding to the embarrassment factor. Ridiculous voice-overs aside, Slater's performance isn't all that bad, but his co-star Tara Reid is absolutely terrible and was clearly hired for her looks (yet she doesn't even have the decency to take off her bra during the obligatory sex scene!).After much frenetic shooting, a smattering of reasonably fun gore, some choice snippets of lousy dialogue ('Some doors are meant to stay shut') and lots of naff CGI creature attacks, during which Boll throws in some lousy Indiana Jones-style adventure and a scene completely ripped off from James Cameron's Aliens (the Xenos—yes the monsters ARE called that—obliterate a team of soldiers, despite the use of automated sentry guns), the film wraps up leaving the viewer none the wiser about what they have witnessed.