Alone in the Dark

This movie had absolutely no idea what it wanted to be. "Am I Aliens? Tomb Raider? National Treasure? late feature 007's?"

Sadly, this is another movie adapted from a video game - which never works in translation, whichever is the predecessor. I've seen dozens of these, going either way (Video game to Movie or Movie to Video game) and trust me, it NEVER works!

Plotwise the movie was completely all over the board, and you had no idea what was going on or even why we should give a poop. So I checked the conversations with the creators to try to get some grasp of what I might be missing here, and I found it. One, the director - who just wanted to make action movies and has no concept and even less concern for such integral things as, oh I don't know - "plot" maybe? and the writer,

who should have known better, but didn't. In fact, the writer even made the telling comment, something like "you have the video game, so coming into the movie, you've got about 60 hours of play time development of these characters, so I had all that wealth of characterization to bring to the movie."

Which, as I've already indicated, he didn't. These characters were so stale I couldn't even chew them in my breakfast cereal. But it was nice to know that if I had been addicted to the video game then I'd be right at home!

Oh well. Live and learn, and give this one a pass.

VG