House of the Dead 2003

Loren King, Chicago Tribune: Here is yet another video game transferred to film with little enhancement or development. Read more

Dave Kehr, New York Times: Cutting around frantically in a vain attempt to stir up some energy, the director, Uwe Boll, drops in occasional images from the video game itself, as if he were subliminally trying to remind ticket buyers why they showed up in the first place. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Don't come looking for a story -- this is a hunt. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: There's scarcely a whiff of originality in the zombie horror picture House of the Dead, but Uwe Boll has directed it with enough energy and style that it adds up to passably mindless if grisly fun. Read more

Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: To properly convey the jaw-dropping shoddiness of this videogame-based 'horror' 'movie,' one must approach what scientists call Absolute Stupid. Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Even connoisseurs of bad movies will find little to enjoy in this one. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: A derivative shock-horror exercise desperately in need of an IV. Read more

Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: Takes out a moviegoer's limbic brain and cerebral cortex. All that's left functioning is the reptilian brain, droning: Kill The Things. Kill The Things... Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Unpretentiously dumb. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Early hopes that this might qualify for so-bad- its-good status -- the sea salt played by Clint Howard is a hoot -- vanish under a volley of idiotic plotting and bad acting. Read more