Alone in the Dark (2005)

How bad is it? It has plot holes you can drive a truck through.
Should you see it? Meh. probably not.

This was the first film directed by Uwe Boll I'd seen; I'd heard him called this generation's Ed Wood (he's not). It's based - loosely - on a video game and Tara Reid gets second billing. I was prepared for something truly awful.

Contrary to every other reviewer, I didn't hate this movie. Reid's miscast and her acting's wooden, but others, such as Christian Slater, are okay. The special effects are also okay and the direction is... okay. The big problem is the script. The final scene goes against everything the rest of the film sets out as the reality of that film world and it leaves a bad taste. The action scenes are too long and fast enough to be hard to watch. A lot is left unexplained and a lot of things left dangling. There is exactly one unintended laugh: a guy shoots randomly into the ground and it struck me as silly.