Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

OK, if you liked the first one avoid this movie or try to develop amnesia because they have nothing to do with each other. Now that that's out of the way.....do you like larping (that thing where D&D fans dress up and play live action?) If so then there is hope. Larps generally aren't recorded (due to embarrassment I suspect) and that's what this movie is. Some C-level actors larping. The lines might as well be improvised, the "action" (aside from one scene at the start) is childishly acted and the special effects (with the possible exception of the dragon) might as well be borrowed from a highschool drama class.So if your going to watch this (and I don't recommend it) imagine your watching a home video of some people you may recognize larping and you'll get through it.

The only thing I enjoyed about this movie was ....The Cover... It has Dolph in a suit of armour and a nice fortress that was not seen in the movie.....But they did have in the 43rd minute.....(As the guards close the fortress doors and the camera pans out...in between the right side of the fortress and that big tree.....you'll see an Automobile, 4 door I think.... lol)And what was that camera shot with the king setting his wig at the beginning. I thought that it would be significant later on in the movie...but No..Nope!! definitely not a keeper

I picked this up at the video store because I'm a sucker for this genre. While I hardly thought the first movie was great or even good, it was at least watchable, fair, I think someone else said and I would agree. Given that there are so many really bad movies of this sort, I latched onto this hoping it would be at least equal to the first, even though Dolph in the lead role almost made me put it back down. Alas, it's as bad as I feared it might be. I'm third though it and don't know I can finish it. Dolph's character's moaning about just wanting to be left alone, left to sleep and let's just get it over with seem quite sincere, I believe that's exactly how he felt during the filming. Jason may not be everyone's favorite actor, but he manages to keep that angry mood notched up through the first film and it helped keep the film from becoming as boring and pitiful as this one is shaping up to be.Not sure one can "spoil" this movie, but spoiler alert because I'm gonna describe a "scene"I'm cringing, the 'healer', after a spat with Dolph, comes back and says "If we shall perish anon, I will not die unfulfilled" then immediately starts taking of her clothes while Dolph says "unfulfilled?". Then sighs, rolls his eyes and says "Oh, right" and lays back for her to have her way with him. Really? I mean Really?

First lets say i am not that much of a Boll hater... He did made 2 very bad Bloodrayne movies, a franchise i truly love, but the third was lets say... acceptable. I meant i actually enjoy some Boll movies, like Rampage where the dude start killing everybody in a full armor, of course Boll had to put his sucky touch and abuse a shaky cam, but the movie was actually interesting. In the name of the king 1 was also a fair movie, i enjoyed it, and as much as i saw the bad cinematography of alone in the dark i kinda enjoyed the movie for what it was.This being said, i watch ITNOTK2 with an interest cause one , Dolph is in it, two, Natassia is in it, and three, like i said i enjoyed the first one.Now i think this movie had a lot of potential, Dolph is very funny and his line aren't bad at all, its kinda made to be a mix of a comedy and an action movie, sure its nothing original but in its own category it could be interesting. Yet there is again the Boll touch that made it borderline average(for me anyway)1) Shaky Cam again(why Uwe, WHY, it never give anything good) 2) The fort... OH MY GOD it looked so FAKE and CHEAP !!! 3) CGI... didn't look much impressive really, cheap CGI effects.As for the king, i recognize the actor, i don't think he was bad in itself, it probably come from the fact that for a King, he look pathetic, his clothing is terrible, the fort look like its made of cardboard and he barely seem to have 100 mens...So what can i say... its signed Boll... I don't understand how Natassia love so much to work with him... she is a good actress and before she started to work for Boll she was actually getting fun and interesting roles...