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Release Date: 19 November, 2002 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $4.00! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Reign of Fire Reviews
Here There Be Dragons!
There be dragons in this movie. And who doesn't like dragons?
Dragons are essentially flying dinosaurs, and who doesn't like dinosaurs? They're just winged ones, but not those wimpy, weird looking Pterodactyls. Dragons of legend and ones Hollywood most often portrays have real heft and menace, besides just looking totally cool.
In the 1980's thanks to a resurgence in Sword & Sorcery movies like Conan: The Barbarian, Beastmaster and Willow, and the RPG Dungeons & Dragons, dragons were suddenly everywhere. Not only in the movies, but in every gift shop known to man. Walking into any Hallmark store was like waltzing into some medieval cave. The shelves were chock full of porcelain dragons, ceramic dragons and the pricey, but exquisitely rendered silver and pewter dragons. Is Hallmark still dragon central? In any case, Reign Of Fire has dragons to spare.
And what beasts! Aside from that, there's not much more. Production values are great, the acting serves what there is of a story and there's plenty of well executed action. Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey mostly elevate the so-so script, and McConaughey gives his crazed military commander character some spark of humanity. Alice Krige shines all too briefly as Bale's doomed Mother. I would have loved to see her survive as one of the dragon fighters, but alas she's the dragons first victim.
Reign of Fire's premise is intriguing. At first glance, it appears it's merely "What if Dragons really existed afterall?" And yes, there's that. But what I took away from it in a larger way was: What if man encounters an animal he simply can't conqueror? What if that animal sends him back to the stone age and starts a holocaust of proportions which not even nuclear weapons achieved? We're so confident our higher brains and technology makes us masters over the whole animal kingdom.
But what if...
A curious but effective movie!
I have to admit the movie engaged me from the first shots. A child goes to the core of the world to find a devilish monster emerged from the entrails of the ground. A dragon in the purest sense of the term. Since his mother will die at that awful encounter, he will become the furtive avenger. But in the meantime, these dreadful beats have increased in number terrifying and devastating the human race.
Just a handful of brave men will pursue them in order to exterminate them. Soon they found out the key of the problem, that eventually will lead them to the final victory.
Tense and absorbing along the road.
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