User Reviews: Reign of Fire (2002)
Great
Pros: Action
Cons: Dark picture color
People seem to have mixed reviews about this movie, but you know, that's why everybody IS different. I loved it. I like dragons, Matthew, Christian...all of it. It was a little dark (color-wise) a little hard on the heavy english accent, but I thought it was great.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoStupid name
Pros: None
Cons: Worst movie ever made
Anybody who gave this movie a 5-star rating needs to have their head examined.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoReign of Fire
A disappointing post-apocalyptic flick, this time theming mankind vs. dragons. A weak cast (complete with mumbled dialogue), plus a nonsensical story, prevents the viewer from caring at all about the dragons or their prey. A kind of "Road Warrior meets Alien," but without any of the charm.
Was this review helpful? Yes - Noone kick mo dragon butt flick here eh!
this movie flat up rocks!
the special effects are the kind, wait till you see a fire breathing dragon scorching cars and kids & stuff eh...
some cryin' will go on inside you but refrain or you will miss the good parts right after that because most of it is butt kickin' action with killer cinematography that only a bonehead would miss out on seeing!
check it out man...you wont regret it...Was this review helpful? Yes - NoI kept waiting for it to suck, but...
OK. My sister brought this over for us to watch on Turkey day and my roommate had already watched it. He told me it was "horrible" and "worst movie ever", so I was not too excited to see it. It started off very interesting and I found myself getting pulled into their situation. (more of a developed situation than a plot) I kept waiting for it to suck, but it never did. I actually enjoyed this movie very much. I'm not sure what people are expecting when they go to see a movie these days, but this movie had a cool story, great effects and some very intelligent acting. Nothing was overdone or extremely overblown. Great Freaking flick!
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoNot very good
I was very disappointed in this film. Decent acting, but the dragons play a very small role in this film. It is mostly about a whole lot of nothing. I felt like I was watching an extended version of the Junktown scene in Beyond Thunderdome, but without an interesting antagonist like the Mad Max flick had.
I would love to put those actors in the Godzilla movie, that would create a decent movie out of two stinkers.Was this review helpful? Yes - Noreign of fire
ok,so i bought this its kinda like dragonslayer meets a apocolyptic future...
with scraggily survivors and gungho military
dragon slayers they team up to wipe out the
race of dragons via the only male dragon
which happens to be a bad ass big boy....
not much to acting or plot... but nice pyro efects...cgi...kinda looks just like the dragonslayer`s dragon though.Was this review helpful? Yes - NoDamn Good Movie!
It's about time, that not since Dragon slayer has there been a dragon movie worth seeing. The movie moves, it doesn't stop! If there are plot holes....who cares! People have to learn to just enjoy movies once again. This is a good place to start. Awesome job by Mathew McCounehey(?) and Christian Bates. I loved the references to Star Wars, too. Great overall movie.
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoGreat Special effects of the Dragon!!!
Movie may not be action packed like "XXX" and language may be hard to pick up, but what's really outstanding is the dragon flying and torching a army trying to hunt him, and later torching a run down castle for revenge. Great picture and computer work, love to have a copy of that scene on my desk top.
Was this review helpful? Yes - Nopretty good action movie
one of the few monster movies that are good
Was this review helpful? Yes - NoWhat a letdown
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Ah, what it could have been. Leaving the theater disappointed didn't
end my night well, but such is life.
Quick plot outline: Near future, London. A small boy
enters a construction site (never being given a hard hat)
to visit his mother who is a worker there. While at the site, he
is sent to check out a cavern that's been found while excavating.
(did the notion of child welfare even exist then?). Not surprisingly, he
finds something in there: a (hostile) dragon. While trying to escape
together in an elevator, his mother dies but he survives. Fast forward a few
years, after the dragons have scorched the world. That same boy, Quinn
(Christian Bale), is now a man, heading a commune of survivors. There
are some nice touches here, such as Quinn acting in a small
play (recreating a famous Star Wars moment) for the children of the commune.
One day, Quinn's group spots tanks moving on their compound. The visitors
turn out to be headed by Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), a stereotypical
American right down to the half-chewed cigar and ballsy attitude. Also
stereotypical is a quip by Quinn's friend Creedy (Gerard Butler), saying
that Americans are the only things worse than dragons.
Van Zan came to the British Isles to try to exterminate the dragons after
examining their epidemiology, but lost
a lot of men on the way and needed a place to rest and re-supply. It turns
out Van Zan knows how to kill dragons and is the head of a high-tech military
force that does the same task. Of course, the squad's helicopter pilot, Alex,
is a drop-dead gorgeous chick (Izabella Scorupco). Why is it, as in
Independence Day, that the Americans are always the ones who are ahead of
everyone else in trying to stop a global threat?
Van Zan tells Quinn of his mission to eradicate the dragons
and wants to draft soldiers from Quinn's group. Quinn refuses saying it is
suicide, arguing that they have a better chance of living in hiding. Van Zan
argues that Quinn is just letting them die slower. This is one of the few
neat points in the movie: both end up gravitating toward one another after
they both lose a lot of men (Van Zan through his arrogance, Quinn through
his fear). I would have felt more sympathy for them had the movie
focused more on this aspect but it felt rushed.
Anyway, Quinn, Van Zan and the hottie pilot go to London in a mission to kill
the only male dragon. Needless to say, they succeed with only Quinn and the
hottie pilot surviving, and Quinn fires the fatal shot at the dragon
(presumably the same one who killed his mum), getting some payback.
The story couldn't be more cliche but, as I said, there are some
nice touches, albeit a very few. The movie spends some time developing
the espirit de corps of Quinn's group, and the dragons look pretty
sweet. Also, Van Zan has this nostalgic looking dragon-slayer axe that
he uses to deliver the death blow to a downed dragon. And Christian Bale
is great: you can see a lot of emotions underneath Quinn's exterior, like
a volcano about to erupt. He is tough but you can tell it is difficult
for him to keep his emotions in check.
Aside from some neat touches, there's not much much else that differentiates
this flick from many of the big budget blockbusters I've seen that bore
the hell out of me. Without these good points I probably would've enjoyed
the movie more because it would have felt that the movie was succeeding
in being mostly a special-effects and explosion extravaganza.
In retrospect, I don't think I would've even paid
the matinee price for a ticket. All in all, it is a letdown.Was this review helpful? Yes - No
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