In the Name of the King: The Last Mission

Plot synopsis:
Hazen Kaine (Dominic Purcell) is a ruthless modern-day assassin, wanting out, and is hired for one final job, determined to quit the business after carrying out that one last job involving a European royal family, kidnapping the two daughters. Hazen easily completes this task, and locks the two girls in a connex box and discovers that one of the girls is wearing a necklace with a charm that looks similar to a tattoo he has and takes the charm from the young girl, which opens a portal to the Middle Ages.
Once there Hazen soon gains his bearing and realizes quickly that a village before him is being attacked by a dragon. Hazen runs to the village when he see that the dragon has noticed him and now attacks him too. He uses his pistol to fire at the dragon, when two sisters Arabella (Ralitsa Paskaleva), and Emeline (Daria Simeonova) notice this, they call to him and bring him into their home for safety. The sisters soon take him to their shaman where he finds out he was chosen to return to the Middle Ages and bring back order to a kingdom in chaos.
Hazen comes to realize that he must stand against the evil King Tervon (Marian Valev), who has seized the kingdom for himself. He and the sisters form an army and head for Tervon's castle, but are ambushed by the king's armies. After a serious battle Hazen faces and easily defeats Tervon in a duel. It is also revealed the dragon which attacked the village earlier is actually controlled by Tervon, who calls upon it to make his escape when he is defeated in the duel against Hazen. Now Hazen finds himself up against an evil king, his armies, and the dragon he controls as Hazen know now he must fight on the side of good. He and Arabella finally reach Tervon's castle and Hazen defeats and kills him with ease.
Arabella tells him he must save the girls he locked in the connex box. Hazen returns to his time, but the dragon now under no ones control follows him trying to kill him. The men who hired him are trying to kill him as well. He finds the man who hired him holding the girls at gunpoint. He fights the remaining henchmen and one of them is carried off by the dragon, which heads off some place unknown. Hazen returns the girls home, and their father allows him to leave unharmed; to which Hazen thanks him in return and walks off. In the final shot, the dragon is seen flying overhead in the background.

Tags: satire

Review:
Fool me three times, I'm a ruddy idiotI'm a longtime Boll defender, movies like this do not help my cause at all.The first In The Name Of The King (2007) was mediocre but passable, it's sequel (2011) was a bit of mess but nothing too offensive.
This however, is a slap in the face with a part of Uwe's anatomy we should not discuss anywhere........ever.Here we see mercenary Dominic Purcell ham it up as another guy ripped through space and time, mistaken for a "Chosen one" and forced to battle evil forces including an awful looking cgi dragon.Nothing against Purcell in fact I think the guy is a decent enough actor for the genres he tends to do, but here he is officially phoning in his performance and looks bored from the outset.Now onto the stupidity, for a start our protagonist is a bad guy with few redeeming features.
No movie which starts with a guy kidnapping children is going to get me to root for him.Secondly the front cover is yet another dishonest one, at no point does Purcell wear a suit of armor.Boring, mindless stupidity is all you'll find here.The Good:Not so muchThe Bad:This is a protagonist, really?CGI is really poorUnforgivably boringDishonest coverThings I Learnt From This Movie:Even Hollywood recognises womens insistence on going for the biggest a-hole availableUpon being pulled through a portal you will have instantly attained the ability to wield a sword like an expert.
I never saw the original or its first sequel so I can't compare them but I sat there and enjoyed the action sequences and the few comedic lines that were delivered in part 3.The special effects were well done and the acting was better than expected.
It's a good and talented cast and I think that helped this movie be better.
I recently read that the director wanted an "R" rating for this movie and I kinda wish I saw that version.
The action was good but I feel like they could've taken it farther.
It feels like the video game film genre is dying out so this movie being made was a real treat for someone who loves the genre like me.
Good landscape and action, lousy plot.
I just watched this and enjoyed it, but only because I like Dominic Purcell.
I really liked him in John Doe and in Prison Break, and was hoping he'd been in some better movies.
The dragon which was pretty good, although I would have liked to see more of it.
And to see the hero engage with it a little more than just firing at it.What I didn't like: the cheesy accents.
("That's not a job for a man.") Is that really enough to turn someone's life around?The best line in the movie: "We're all going to die."Was it worth watching?
If you like Purcell, and dragons.
If you want a coherent plot and superb acting, look elsewhere..
Not sure what's with the negative reviews, but I enjoyed the movie very much.
There's no distinct feel-good actions scenes because the pacing is kept constant throughout and I don't see why there's an issue with the pacing being that way.
It's hardly flat, it's just a very honest, straight- flushed story-telling, and it fits the themes that are underscored by the movie.
I like how these themes are teased out and zoomed in upon throughout the movie.
I think this is a honest and loyal adaptation that will appeal to fans of Dungeon Siege who fell in love with the story precisely for the moralistic themes it explores..
I just don't see, why any other recent fantasy movie deserves more respect than this one.
Yes film is more of a personal struggle journey of the main character and that is what I like.
For the fans of action it is also good.
The most memorable scene is when Dominic Purcell's character sees what he has become.
The movie itself has its flaws however and also suffers from pacing problems- just when the narrative is about to steamroll forward, the scenes abruptly change so that any emotional momentum is lost because there just isn't much characterization of the main parts; everything that should have an emotional impact is glossed over by a jump to a new scene with way too much focus on explanations of what the characters are doing so that the audience fails to gain sympathy for the minor characters..
Full disclosure: the original In The Name of the King is among my top 5 favorite films of all time, and I've easily watched it over 200 times.
With that being said, I still looked forward to this re-interpretation due to my love of the series' antihero main characters (whose legacy had already been profoundly tarnished by the catastrophically misguided sequel) and my admiration of director Uwe Boll's "Bloodrayne" films (as well as his other video game films).
Conversely, it is my belief that a large contingent of overzealous "fans" were hellbent on seeing this film fail, therefore had pre-determined that the movie was trash.
Judging by the middling 3.3 IMDb rating, many people loathed the film just as much as they'd hoped they would.This viewer simply cannot accept that In The Name of the King III is anywhere near as bad as people are rating it.
It is my firm belief that all of these criticisms are merely the ravings of closed-minded fan boys who are (bizarrely) searching for the next movie to "ruin their childhood".
It's a phenomenon that is baffling and absurd.Anyway, I rated the film 10/10 on IMDb because I wanted the score to weigh heavier in the positive direction.
Truth be told, I think the film is a solid 8 and may even grow to become a 9 over time.
Of course it's not as good as Boll's original classic, and obviously it's much different in tone.
I didn't want another movie trying to mimic the satire of the original, nor did I feel that anyone could ever one-up the original film, so why try?
There are those that argue that this film should have simply been called something else other than In The Name of the King if it wanted to be so different from the original, and I get that...except the bottom line is few studios will ever green light a multi million dollar film without some kind of name recognition.
But in utilizing the Dungeon Siege brand name, Boll was given the funding to acquire a brilliant cast and design cutting edge digital effects.
In my opinion, a little brand recognition is a fair trade off if it helps the film achieve the look and feel of a high-end fantasy blockbuster.Anyway, I've already babbled several paragraphs longer than I'd intended.
The bottom line is you should abandon your preconceptions and watch the movie for what it is: a genuinely smart, heartfelt and wonderfully acted fantasy featuring characters we get to know and love.
"You're on the path that you must follow to its end and that end might come sooner then you think." Hazen Kaine (Purcell) is an enforcer for the mob who wants out.
He is teleported back in time to the dark ages and the only way back is to save the village from a dragon.
So...yeah.
That is actually what the movie is about.
I am not a Uwe Boll fan but after watching and really liking Assault On Wall Street I was hoping for better then this one.
But when the main character in your series goes from Jason Statham to Dolph Lundgren to Dominic Purcell there is really only one way the series can go as well.
Not going to lie, when I saw the first teaser I wanted to hate this movie.
One of the few movies from I can still watch and genuinely enjoy without relying on nostalgia for the game it is based on.
That said, I really enjoyed this movie.
While I love everything about the first one; the effects, the one liners, the violence,and the campiness, I didn't find myself comparing the new one to the old one when I watched it.In my opinion, the new additions to the story really help make it more of a complete story, one based closer to our current reality than the original movie was.
Nothing felt forced and there was a much better explanation for why everything was happening and certain key players motivations.It's definitely not the fun campy movie it once was, but it throws out a few fun nods to the original classic In the Name of the King.
I found this movie to have more heart, and for a man to truly control his dark side as a contract killer.The action was top notch.
I really liked what they did this time around.I wouldn't go in expecting the original In the Name of the King, but I found this new film to be one the most enjoyable action movies I've seen in a while.
Uwe Boll probably try, but he lack budget AND talent..
We are closing 2018 and i finally saw this movie (2014 made) so as you can guess i was not in a hurry to see it.
They also buy back any movies for 1$ so at that price i was like "what do i have to loose?" .
If it suck, ill return it and it will have cost me 1$.I saw the first 2 movies and tough the first one was enjoyable, the second one was not too bad but was buried by very crappy practical and cgi effects combine with a cheap feeling.I can say that this third movie is pretty much the second one in the cheap factor but a bit different.
For instance this time the castle actually looks like its made of concrete and not cardboard, so a plus for that, and the cgi dragon look a bit more convincing altough we are far from Game of Thrones level.But everything else still feel so cheap.
The problem is nothing really convince you that you are watching a movie of that era, even if Uwe Boll is probably trying.
The last movie felt the same way, its not convincing.
If you are to have a KING and his army, they got to be at least in the thousands.Speaking of the King, there is a scene where he is topless at some point and you can spot current days tatoos.
This look so out of place and does not help the immersion, especially since there was no need to see him topless at all.
I can understand a lack of budget in many aspect but details like this are just taking you off the movie.
Kinda like when he cameo in Bloodrayne wich is set in the 1800s and kept his modern day watch.
You are the director sir, you should CARE about those things.The dragon altough a bit more convincing than in the second movie serve no purpose and is basically there to just be there.
Movie wouldn't had been much different without it.As for the rest of the plot, its alright if you can pass the cheap feeling.
It kinda look like an episode of Hercules The Legendary Journeys if i can say...
Characters where also much more entertaining.Before i wrap up this "review" i got to mention the shaky cam.
I know shaky cam can be used to enforce a chaotic feeling in a situation, and i didn't mind it that much watching Rampage, one of the few Boll movies i taugh was decent, but in this movie it just distract the viewer and is either used to hide a lack of talent for filming the battles or simply hiding the low budget.
The shaky cam really make you look at the screen blinking saying to yourself "whats going on, can it end already" .Overall its just a very cheap movie made a director who just lack the talent to make movies.
Not a masterpiece but a decent medieval style movie.But in its current form, its just a throw away "made for TV" movie, or at least it feel like it, the kind of movie you watch on a saturday afternoon when your bored or have a hangover..
Bad filming, the camera keeps moving and you will get a feeling of being seasick.
Actually this film does not do any credit at the last 2 movies.
These were nice movies to watch.
This could have been a much better movie.....
So if you have some time to kill , do not take this movie.
Uwe Boll's third directorial effort on his In the Name of King Franchise and in this case again using a magical time travel theme, he uses to great effect the on site location of Bulgaria that gives a cinematic authenticity and richness to foreign and historical period of the movie.
Dominic Purcell attempts to hold up his character throughout the movie and does quite well at the beginning with its raw martial arts combat and assassin demeanor.The photo cinematography is noteworthy, the brief flash back at the beginning of the movie is well done and its use relatively never done.
The first two-thirds of the movie, the script holds up well with a few weaknesses, like Purcell's leaving fingerprints because he doesn't use gloves, the sudden and abrupt transition in the use of duck tape, and the less than convincing reaction to a dragon or first single handed combat with an ancient warrior, and rather questionable first kissing scene.Besides an intrusive shaky use of the camera, eventually the script becomes lazy as well as the direction as Purcell's character fails to offer up a credible leadership performance or professional assassin level planning, and even overlooking the possibility of creating gun powder with superior advanced science knowledge.
Instead the script descends into more of the typical butchering combat with not real distinction of Purcell's abilities and becomes a brown and power over sophisticated assassin mentality allowing himself to become ambushed and the scriptwriter appears to desperately resort to the dragon appearance to get our hero and his followers out of an impossible situation and adding the implausible entrance into a castle.Overall, the movie has a comprehensible thread, starts well, but just runs out of substance by the end.
Well, maybe from me being from Bulgaria, and, as this film explicitly told us, it was filmed in Bulgaria.First of all, I want to say that I am ashamed of the Bulgarian actors and their horrific English accents.
It's obvious that nobody actually cared to practice their lines for more than ten minutes before filming.
And when ten-year-old girls speak English better than your actors, you know you're in trouble.
I wonder how Dominic Purcell didn't feel the need to rip his ears off.
*sigh* Forget it.Now, the accents aside, this film is still terrible.
Dominic Purcell, ever the watchful assassin, leaves his fingerprints all over the crime scene and nobody even notices the pile of corpses he's left in the hallway.
He isn't "the chosen one", and the film relies on his accidental getting of a tattoo to justify him being selected to bring order to the fallen kingdom.
Next up, I hope you like shooting dragons with a gun, cause that's what happens.
Like in all the previous "In the Name of the King"s, which I've unfortunately seen.The villain is as 2D as he could get, he's flat, one-sided and not even interesting or rational.
People have conversations in the middle of battles, and apparently yelling "STOOOP FIGHTIIING" at the top of your voice actually causes soldiers to stop fighting.So, the accents are a disgrace, and villain is a disgrace, the plot is a disgrace, and the combat is as well.
Dominic Purcell actually throws a sword and it kills someone.
It's truly and utterly, and completely and terribly, and I ran out of adverbs, dreadful.This is the first film in my life that caused me to take a pen and write down all the faults in it.
I'd ask the same.Reading the (only) plot summary at the time of posting of this review, it seems that Uwe Boll himself's written it.
The film takes place in medieval Bulgaria.
You know what the CGI dragon lacked?
It looked and felt like a CGI thing superimposed on the picture.
Not like a dragon, unlike other films.
Hell, "Dungeons and Dragons 2: Wrath of the Dragon God" is a quadrillion times better than this, and it's not the best fantasy film with dragons either.
Yeah, right.
(Still better than the previous film, where armies were six men on each side.) In fact, I'm gonna go round there and try to submit a different summary that doesn't glorify this piece of rubbi...
If you want to watch a good film, I saw "Gravity" recently, and it's stunning.
If you want to watch a bad film, there are still a plethora of better films than this one.Such a disgrace to my motherland.
*sigh* Uwe Boll....
Dominic Purcell has taken over the role of the tough guy as Hazen Kaine.
The next thing you know he is transported back into time...a time in Bulgarian history when they had a fire breathing dragon and spoke modern English with Eastern European accents.He discovers that because of a tattoo which his now dead wife liked, he is destined to lead an army against the bad guys, fend off a dragon, and oh yea, there are these princesses babes with swords, the older of which doesn't like him.
I think you can write the rest of the story on your own, toss in a good shaman, and dress the bad guys in black.
In fact you could script a better tale.You don't really need to see the other two films of this Uwe Boll masterpiece series of bad theater in order to understand it, although I will admit I was more partial to those films.