there should be a rule that state quite clearly that movie like resident evil be suppose to be make in the spirit of the game and not in the spirit of blow up everything possible . re be a survival horror game and and a damn effective one at that and yet paul w anderson manage to make it like any other video game movie to come along . alone in the dark be essentially the same kind of a spirit a resident evil and so of course and there be the slight hope the director will manage to have some piece of a brain enough to make a horror movie and not an action movie . instead and alone in the dark just prove that there be no longer hope for video game become movie . the plot and despite the fact that it obviously isn not suppose to matter and be the large of many problem with the movie . the movie start with what can only be describe a five minute of scroll text that may or may not be important and a after a minute pass and the audience stop care and just sits through the rest hit the object closest to them . then there something about an orphanage and some artefact and an ancient tribe and some bureaucracy and some demon and all of which get so jumbled together that the viewer really can not follow with what be go on . character move in and out of the plot like candy and some have huge build ups for meaningless death . basically and what i can understand be that some demon get release and and edward carnby ( slater ) have some link to them thanks to some operation give to child in his orphanage which have fail on him . he find an artefact involve the demon and bring it to an ex girlfriend anthropologist ( reid ) and who of course he manage to have sex with right away for no good reason . then and out of nowhere and all hell break loose and and the pair end up with a military team lead by some asshole commander ( dorff ) and who apparently have a mutual hatred for carnby . it all ridiculous and and the reason i do not really understand it isn not just because it complicate and jumbled and but it leave no room for anyone to really care . instead and i highly recommend that and if you must see this film and bring a tennis ball or something to occupy yourself when the plot manage to bore you into confusion . the action scene in a movie with a plot as terrible a this should at least bring it up a little and right . too bad and this movie be like any other ruin crap ever make and with enough quick cut to behead a coop of chicken . consider that this be base on a horror game and not an action game and it be especially annoy . the first action scene involve a man chase cranby from a taxi be among the bad i have ever have to witness and and the rest isn not all that great either . the demon look somewhat cool and though the fact that they turn into powder when kill take away all that effect . scene involve lot of gun which should be cool to watch instead involve the muzzle fire a the only source of light and the camera zooming and pan faster than the head of a crack addict . it all the kind of seizure induce crap that keep child in bed at night . the acting be what i like to call take actor and make them do nothing . slater do nothing but sound important for the whole movie and though he do seem to have more talent than he be let on . the same be true of dorff and who get a thankless role despite actually have some talent ( something that have happen to him a lot ) . reid be pretty much exactly what she should be and background sex appeal and a whenever she try to act it be a disaster ( a be the incredibly bad scientist look she have in the beginning ) . in all and this be the type of movie that worry me about future video game movie . if they keep ruin the spirit like this and it only a matter of time before samus aran be kill middle easterns with an ak 47 and tommy vercetti be fight a squadron of alien . unlike resident evil and however and this one doesn not deserve a second chance and a i do not think anything could possibly help me forget just how terrible this movie be . it bland and uninteresting and unexciting . this be the movie equivalent of diarrhea while it all throw together and nothing really fit and and in the end and youre just glad it over . total represent 4 % .