the definition of an abomination a define by webster dictioary be a cause of abhorrence or disgust . if someone can think of a more appropriate word or definition than this for alone in the dark and please let me know because this be the best i can come up with . however and i do no feel that in anyway this word describe how truly awful this film be . i go to see this film with two of my roommate . one have very similar taste to me and the other be an action or adventure flick guru . this latter guy usually doesn not care about the size of the plot hole and as long a the movie contain lot of explosion he will walk away satisfied . that be say we enter the theater for the friday viewing of alone in the dark . little to my surprise we be the only people in the theater . when it start i know why immediately . it begin with the bad opening scene of any movie and and unfortunately i have to admit it only get bad from there . the opening scene be a 5 minute scroll text that be narrate . yet and i understand why it be narrate . the director must have understood that only illiterate people would even ascertain the thought of pay to see this movie . yet and not only be this first scene the long scroll text in the history of cinema and but it also make no sense . it seem a if in the same sequence we be hear about to completely separate movie . one be about an ancient civilization and it tampering with a portal and the other be about a crazy scientist and his experiment on orphan . if you be read this and be confuse and you be not alone . then the awful storyline and acting and effect and and camera work begin . tara reid be horrendous a an actress . she do nothing to even for one second make you think that she be a museum curator . slater be just bad and not convincing and and have no chemistry with reid . the plot be probably the bad thing ever create by man . the entire time myself and the roommate with similar taste be ask question like represent what be this . and what be go on . other than this scrolling garbage we have a few narrated sequence by slater himself . be they good . no . do they explain anything . no . do we at any point a an audience have the slight inkling a to why we should care what happen . once again and no . then we have a random sex scene . we be tell that slater and reid be together and yet at no time do they act a though they even care about on another . but then bam . sex scene . once again i do not know . a good and oh i do not know and 30 second after that woeful scene end we have a gunfight with 20 or so military and a similar number of alien thing . this be set to a heavy metal track and cause more brain hemorrhaging than one ever think possible . and if that wasn not enough . there exist no main villain . there be the scientist and there be the alien thing . at one point the scientist control the alien thing and stand on a hill command them to attack the military outpost . why . how do he become the supreme commander of these thing . why do they listen to him . once again i have no idea . the movie end with slater and reid walking in an evacuated city . why be the city evacuate . do the alien thing break through . do the military tell them . who know . and by this point who care . i do not and you would not . but to top it off and slater and reid be attack by an alien thing . even though it be state that alien thing will be kill by exposure to sunlight . and thats right and you guess it and it the middle of the and % $ ing day and it bright a can be . maybe the alien thing buy a pair of sunglass and i do not know and i do not care . now after the movie end i ran outside the theater and all 6 foot 6 inch of me and wave my arm and shake my afro tell everyone not to go see this movie . even my gung ho action or adventure roommate ( who would consider a movie that just cut and paste 2 hour of explosion into 1 film to be the great thing ever create ) admit that plot hole be very evident in this film . to sum up this crap fest i give it a 0. negative and would give it low if i could . unequivocally and the bad movie ever make . i wouldn not wish this movie on my bad enemy .