Film Review – In the Lost Lands

There’s recently been some internet debate over the quality of movies made by director Paul W.S. Anderson. He’s a divisive figure in film fan communities, and his oeuvre isn’t exactly inspiring, and while he’s managed to create a few passably entertaining pictures (such as “Resident Evil” and “Even Horizon”), most of his work is dire, forever chasing B-movie highs with a limited vision for style, performance, and action. The last 15 years hasn’t been especially kind to Anderson, and he lands another career thud with “In the Lost Lands,” an adaptation of a 1982 George R.R. Martin short story. Anderson and screenwriter Constantin Werner set out to create a world for the endeavor, but there’s not much to explore in this ultra-processed dud, which doesn’t connect at all as a fantasy epic, and looks like a CD-ROM game from 1996. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com