the king be alive be a flawed and contrive mess of a movie which come off like a self indulgent auteur excuse to transport a bunch of actor to a godforsaken namibian desert where he can play major dogme domo and film his selfishly conceive and silly and overwrought drama with utter disregard for the real force of human nature and market appeal and common sense and and even good art . in other word this be one dumbassed flick and if you do not believe that and your penance be watch it . only for filmheads and critic and dilettante and and the like . ( d ) .