“Far Cry” is another videogame adaptation from the infamous Uwe Boll (“Alone In The Dark”, “Postal”). I have spent very little time with one of the “Far Cry” games so I’m the wrong person to ask if you want to know whether or not the film follows its source material. Despite a fair number of explosions, this is a really bad action film where I did care about anything that was going on.

Jack Carver (Til Schweiger “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”) is an ex-special forces soldier that now runs boat tours to see whales. He gets hired by an investigate journalist (Emmanuelle Vaugier “Saw II”) to go to a remote island with secret military installations. On the island, a mad scientist (Udo Kier “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”) is trying to create his own army of super soldiers.

The characters in this film are really forgettable and the acting is appalling. I did not care about Jack or anything he did. He is easily one of the worst main characters in an action movie. Valerie the journalist was only marginally more interesting. The big disappointment is how poorly this film makes use of Udo Kier as the villain. The super soldiers are really lame. The only character in the movie that was even remotely entertaining was the comedic sidekick Emilio (Chris Coppola “Beowulf”).

“Far Cry” is awful. I do not know how you make a chase scene involving cars and helicopters that ends with a helicopter crashing and a car flying off a cliff dull but somehow this movie manages it. I have yet to hear fans of the game or anybody else rush to its defence so I guess that tells you a lot about how popular this mess is. It’s maybe not Uwe Boll’s worst film but it is still pretty darn terrible.