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Amazing movie. Clearly one of the best movies made. Its bassed in the future but yet has a setting like the medivel ages. Very realistic as well.
10/10
17.11.2006 -
garyisonline@ - age: 18-25
Did not know what to expect about this movie. Thought I'd be disappointed. A movie about dragons? Freaked me out. Loved it. A great balance of suspense and special effects. Loved the cast. I watch it again regularly.
9/10
23.10.2006 -
blanchard@
Oh my god... dragons? What dragons? The dragons probably appear 5 times in this movie... And the worst part was that it was dark all the time, in which this movie should have stayed in the 1st place. I would have rather watch Puffy the dragon than this garbage.
1/10
1.6.2004 -
arkacia@ - age: 26-35
The best dragon movie ever made. There's non stop action during the whole entire movie. I absolutely loved it. It's a must see for anyone who loves a fantasy kind of movie with dragons.
10/10
2.7.2003 -
snowleopard29@ - age: 26-35
Not bad movie. Very, very dark. Lots of scenes where you can't see what's happening. Christian Bale was excellent as was Matthew McConaughey. Plot was okay but there could have been more. Graphic were superb. Dragons were totally believable.
6/10
22.2.2003 -
mchapman001@ - age: 26-35
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Too bad, they've ruined a decent concept with a boring unrealistic movie. This movie left me with so many unanswered questions, couple of things in particular: If this hotshot American was able to figure out how to kill the dragons and save mankind, what does that say for the rest of the world's military intelligence, that couldn't figure it out? Another thing, this male dragon was living underground for thousands (?) of years and eventually he was killed and the movie was over - everyone happy, blah blah blah - did we forget that there were millions of female dragons still hunting and killing throughout the world? Dumb movie, terrible script / story, bad acting. And to top things off - it was set in depressing England "where the sun don't shine". That's where this movie can go.
2/10
13.2.2003 -
adamd_67@ - age: 26-35
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I was so eager to see this film when I saw the trailer. It seemed like such an odd premise--one that I actually hadn't seen before in ten other films. For whatever reason, I never got out to see it in the theatre when it was out, and am I happy I didn't. It takes a certain kind of skill to make a military vs dragons, humanity on the edge kind of film as boring as this. Not a single compelling relationship in it, and you'd think that in a film about dragons would actually show some dragons up close and interesting. When you make a monster movie, you want the film to dwell a bit on the monster--like in alien, jurassic park, or even godzilla (which was terrible for other reasons) sure--you could argue, "but this was really a film about people in crisis showing what it really means to be human! " but then, why make it a dragon movie? Most of the time we see the things far away on the horizon--not very scary or compelling. We don't find anything about them, not even an explanation of how that dragon was sitting in that cavern for thousands (millions?) of years. And we certainly don't get any sort of just visual play with the creatures--to show how cool they are or how they interact with each other, or how they eat, or anything. It's as if bowman wasn't actually curious about the dragons himself. And the whole queen bee thing has been done to death. How do you destroy an impossibly huge self-replicating horde that is overrunning everything? Oh, luckily there is a secret off switch that you can flip if only you can get to it... aside from the boring dragons, we have the boring humans. The noble suffering father figure. The cigar chomping hothead. The blonde. The teen boy cypher for all the teen boys in the audience to identify with. I guess bowman thought that since we'd seen them in so many other films already he didn't need to flesh them out. And I still don't buy the it's-an-action-movie defense. We've seen these characters in films like the matrix and terminator who actually seemed believable despite their overblown circumstances. Why are characters so important in an action film? No character, no suspense. If you don't care about the people, you don't care if they die, no matter how entertaining they are when they do it. It has a lot of the trouble that the x-files move had. While I liked it, bowman gave it a distant, reserved quality which didn't serve an action drama very well. Another x-files parallel: the overwritten diary voiceover at the beginning. It could have been written by chris carter himself. Compare it to the two towers: peter jackson knows that the audience is coming out for the creatures and the spurting blood, which he delivers in spades, but also the characters and relationships which make you not want bad things to happen to the nice people you are watching.
4/10
8.2.2003 -
rocketeer@ - age: 26-35
I found this movie amazing... when I went to see it I didn't expect anything special but I got easily into the story and the special effects where simply great! I recommand it to anyone who like dragon and action!
8/10
5.2.2003 -
mel_t13@ - age: 18-25
Wow. It was awesome. The dragons alone kicked ass and... I dunno, it was somehow believable. I felt like it was real, like it could happen. Anyway I loved it. CREEDY IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!
10/10
20.1.2003 -
miztikal_goddess@ - age: 13-17
I loved this movie.
10/10
10.1.2003 -
draerihn@ - age: 13-17
I thought this was a really good movie. The special effects were absolutely amazing. The dragons looked wicked. I am definitely going to buy this movie.
8/10
26.11.2002 -
god_smack9@ - age: 13-17
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I saw Reign of fire in the theatre and I think that it is a good show! Since I love dragons this movie was exciting-lots of action-tanks-people getting eaten-buildings on fire-go see this one-or rent it on dvd or vhs! Reign of fire is alot more exciting then Spirt Stallion of the cimarron-of course anyhing is! I must have at least 10 dragon statues! They rock!
8/10
23.11.2002 -
lkalk@ - age: 26-35
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