That… Wasn't Very Good
So, I'd never say that Christian Slater is prone to be in good movies. But my goodness. Alone in the Dark was... ... I guess this was the most not good/not bad movie I've seen in a while. It was right up there with the second Crow movie.
For much of the movie I was really curious as to why Tara was still around. It was like in Scrubs... You knew she didn't really belong, and J.D. was going to screw it up somehow... but mostly you just wanted to look at her wearing as little as she was wearing at the time. It was... well, she was the best part of the movie. Unless you're a Slater fan.
Slater did his job well in the movie... which roughly translates to, "Christian Slater showed up and occasionally hit something with his fist or a bullet." Oh yeah, and he said something, and lets face it... Christian Slater has one of the coolest voices ever. Right up there with Keifer and Shatner.
In the end, however, nothing made sense... and that was really the films downfall. Up to the last little chunk, everything could have been salvaged by some sort of, you know, coherent ending. Except the filmmakers decided to foregos story continuity and plot to, instead, go for the Sequel Set-up. Which, if you've watch 10 minutes of this movie, you know will never happen.
It's too bad, too, because the movie could have been good. It didn't have the potential of, say, Disturbing Behavior, of course... It didn't have Katie Holmes either. To have those things we wish for... ahh well. Alone in the Dark had nothing to do with the video game it got it's name from, but to it's credit, at least it didn't make the game seem that much worse, you know... like, some movies (of course, I liked that one a lot more... ... ... now what, exactly, does that say about me?)...
Ok. I'm done being a computer geek. I'm going to bed now. Laters...