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Chad
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Posted: March 13, 2004 at 12:00am
As a child, Quinn was with his parents in a mining expedition. They found a cave down under the earth, and upon investigation, a dragon was found in there. His parents are killed, and we cut-scene to a grown version of Quinn. Some backstory is shown, explaining that one dragon killed some people, then it gave birth to more dragons, more destruction, more births, more destruction, ad nauseum. The government attempts to kill them with nuclear warheads, failing miserably. Eventually, most of the people on earth are dead. Quinn has put together a bit of a fortress with some other survivors, and they're attempting to wait out the dragons, who are slowly starving to death. Denton and his gang of dragon-slayers show up to the fortress, and explain how they're taking more direct action to kill off the dragons. Fun times ensue.
This was, suprisingly enough, a pretty decent movie. I enjoyed how they didn't portray the dragons as being overly weak, but quite dangerous and hard to kill. That shocked me, as the trailers and box made it out to have millions of dragons killed. Not so. There was absolutely zilch for blood and gore where there should have been, which disappointed me; I suppose they wanted that PG-13 rating pretty badly. The special effects used for the dragon and torching scenes were done very nicely, however. The dragon looked quite realistic, or however realistic a dragon can look.
One thing that particularly bugged me, and this may just be me... but almost everyone had a heavy accent, be it British, Irish, or just some good ol' slurred speech. There were quite a few scenes where I had to rewind to try to figure out what the hell was being said, as it was hard to decipher the first time through. Again, maybe I just suck with accents, but it was definitely annoying.
The storyline was pretty simple though, I summed up most of it in my first paragraph. There were a few twists and such, but not many. One, however, was pretty lame... that being the grand revelation on how to wipe out all of the dragons, which I won't discuss, but I found that to be an easy way to wrap the movie up. For shame.
Summing it all up, I'd go with a 5/10. Entertaining movie, nice special effects, but nothing really special.
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Posted: September 13, 2005 at 9:01pm
Not a bad film, could've been somewhat better though.
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effin
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Posted: December 29, 2007 at 7:34pm
Its not every day you get to see the american psyco get in a fist fight vs leather face. Movie was horible. 1/10
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Rik
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Posted: July 3, 2008 at 11:40am
Urm... yeah it was a waste of good cinema funds.
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Lucid Dreams
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Posted: February 22, 2010 at 1:56pm
It was OK, like Chad said nothing special. If I watched it today though I would hate it because I have this growing hate for Matthew McConaughey now. 5/10
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