| | New York Daily News - Entertainment Columnists - Jack Mathews: Alone in the Dark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) |
 | | I assure you that Uwe Boll's "Alone in the Dark," opening in theaters across the nation today, is no better than whatever you might pick up while wearing a blindfold at Blockbuster, even if you happen to reach into a trash can. |
 | | "Alone in the Dark" is adapted from a popular Atari video game series about Edward Carnby (Slater), a paranormal detective whose life - and the video game players' joysticks - involve violent confrontations with all manner of monsters, demons and hellions. |
 | | Like most action video games, "Alone in the Dark" owes much to "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Carnby is a distant knock-off of Indiana Jones, and Slater - whose career held so much more promise than this - plays him with great energy and a straight face. |
| www.nydailynews.com /01-28-2005/entertainment/col/story/275638p-235846c.html (711 words) |