The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Alone in the Dark is one of the early films in Uwe Boll's career which went nationwide into theaters which has helped kill his career. This is considered one of his worst films and one of his worst reviewed films since it was one of his biggest. Based on a video game (having not played) I had no thoughts how decent an adaptation of the movie is to the game. With this movie, it is everything in which it has been criticized for. It is terrible, messy, confusing and hard to follow. Things do occur but it is confusing and a boring watch. The film takes itself too serious which hurts it. It isn't one of those typical cheesy "it's so bad it's good" films that are bad films but still entertaining and unintentionally funny. Alone in the Dark is just bad and it isn't funny. For a decent sized budget film (having a $20 million budget), Alone in the Dark feels cheap and the story is very weak. There could have been at least some thrills, suspense or jump scenes but it was very bland, uninteresting and even the creatures looked unsatisfying. This felt more like a cheap Sci- Fi low budget television series if anything. In the end, you may find yourself wondering what you have just watched and what the film was about.

The intro going off in a weird direction.This nun is not very devout. Trying to convince her with "survival of our species" seems a poor mov(i)e.Good interaction with plane boy. I was happy with him ignoring him, but it got better.Since when do you have to get the cab driver's attention when exiting the airport? I think we skipped up to modern day without them telling us.For once a nosy punk is a good thing. Nice chase music.Horribly obvious green screen.Fresh fish.So they don't complete the puzzle... Duh! Intrusive security fell asleep fast.Now it's Miss and Mr.? There's a completely needless line... "The hair on the back of my neck..." Running while holding hands is highly efficient.Needless smashing through displays, even for a creature.Standard stupid procedure... split into singles.There seems to be no reason they came through the ceiling.This is horrible love music.This is no Sharknado.We get it. Everyone is busy.POLO! That guy in the front had an immediate jam :) How are they not hitting these creatures directly in front of 30 guns!?

It was inevitable that I'd get around to seeing a Uwe Boll film sooner or later. The German director is widely regarded as a modern day Ed Wood, incapable only of churning out a string of god-awful genre flicks packed with bad acting, worse effects and a complete lack of talent. ALONE IN THE DARK is the title of a popular PC game that went on to spawn sequels and remakes on plenty of other computers and consoles, and this is the filmic adaptation. And it's a pile of pants.You know you're off to a bad start when the opening scrolling text begins. And then goes on. And on. And on. Basically there's more story condensed here than in the rest of the film, and that's because test audiences left confused, wondering what the heck the film was about, and the opening scroll was tacked on afterwards. Then, to my surprise, things got cheesy and quite a bit of fun. We meet up with Christian Slater, playing a muscular, vest-wearing hero type, and watch his encounter with a superhuman skinhead who leaps great heights and takes bullets with seemingly no pain or effect. Boll's direction is hyper and wannabe stylish, and this sequence is a hoot.Then things get really bad, with a muddled story about an evil professor, a museum relic that comes to life and a tactical unit of wannabe SWAT guys fighting monsters. The monsters are bad – half the creatures seen in HELLBOY, half THE RELIC – but the slithery worm things that live in people's spines are pretty neat, a nice gross out idea. The film moves on from there with a series of poorly connected set-pieces, all of them predictable and done to death a million times previously. There are explosions, shoot outs and a few mild gore scenes, although one shot of a woman's head split open is pretty near the knuckle.I find it difficult to dislike Slater. He has this nice guy persona in every film I've seen and he seems slick and cool here. Even the bit of crumpet on his shoulder (AMERICAN PIE's Tara Reid) isn't too irritating. Then there's Stephen Dorff, who I last saw in the awful haunted house movie COLD CREEK MANOR, and he isn't bad either, playing a hard-ass commander. Maybe Boll is better at directing actors than he is at directing stories.Anyway, things play out predictably, and it all washes over you with its inanity and pointlessness. Yes, this is a bad film. Is it one of the worst films ever? I doubt that. It's actually on the level of a Sci Fi Original movie, except with a higher budget. 'Pretty trashy' and 'nothing to get excited about' sum up this film nicely for me.

this is it the reason Christian slater career went down he don't look at the script he looks at cash i am saying he is a good actor but look at his best films including the very famous broken arrow where john woo highlighted his skills now this is a film based on a video game i was once a hard core gamer but i would say the game may be better or equally bad but this film is nonsense i still hate the fact that hit-man series was best until it went to Hollywood when blood money 2006 and absolution came the hit-man 2007 film was nice but all video games movies are ruined by Hollywood so no surprise this was killed.the plot:Edward Carby a guy who lost his memory when he was 10 he looks for the traces that would lead to his past it could put the entire human race in danger if he fails to drive the evil forces back where they came from.the cast:who else to look for i saw Christian slater only he was trying is best despite the awful script,or the aliens in the climax.the film fails on many levels it had nothing to do with the original games and tried to be a solo horror movie.overall Alone In The Dark 2005 is a film if you are a fan of Christian slater and love to see some goofs with funny scenes otherwise Skipp it.not recommended at all My Rating is 3/10