Avis sur le produitReign of Fire (DVD, 2002)

Won't play in my new computer, but does in an older dvd player, so I still got to watch it.

Disk won't work in my brand new computer, but does work in an old dvd player, so I can still watch it. Good movie.

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Amazing Future with Bale, Butler, and McConaughey

Directed by Rob Bowman, the film was shot in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. Production was only allowed to film there under the condition that they clean up entirely after themselves, without damaging the landscape.

The film starts with a 12 year old Quinn Abercromby (Ben Thornton) accompanying his mother to work at a London tunneling project. They dig up fire-breathing dragon beast who awakens from it's hibernation and escapes out into the world and begins to multiply. After Quinn witnesses the beast kill his mother Karen (Alice Krige) in the tunnel, the film jumps twenty years ahead showing Quinn (Christian Bale), who is now the Fire Chief in the camp. Unexpectedly, Denton Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), an American militia leader shows up at the camp with a group of men that he calls "slayers." Van Zan and Quinn engage in a power struggle, before realizing it's the dragons they should be fighting instead. If you probe too deeply into the premise you're not going to have much fun. However, great fun is what this film stands to offer, glorious mindless fun and, above all, fabulous apocalyptic visuals of twisted metal, crepuscular landscapes, dark hulking ruins, and men crawling through them to fire off weapons at the evil birds, which look very graceful as they sweep through the skies and spurt out long expanding streams of fire. Shots are so stunningly composed you want to sometime view them in freeze-frame. Within the dark end-of-the-world light there is amazing clarity. Working with Ridley Scott's cinematographer Adrian Biddle, X-Files director Rob Bowman has produced the best fantasy landscape this year next to "Lord of the Rings." When Van Zan leads a hunt in the sky, it's like a computer game, & sometimes we see the game through the eyes of the dragon and it looks like a degraded digital film. However, it's not ingenuity of conception but sheer aesthetic appeal that makes the visuals of this movie so good.

It is a bit unusual that the preview to this film claims that it is set in 2084. Yet the actual movie itself gives the date as sometime in the 20s. Alright! Let's run through a small check list here. The film is not elevated to the level of other huge science fiction classics. The marketing department as well should be answering charges of misrepresentation for that poster showing an aerial armada of helicopters battling the fire-breathing beasts over central London. That scenario just never happens, however, I have got to tell you that this film has some of the greatest set designs and cinematography I have ever seen. It is extremely interesting to speak from a technical viewpoint. The dragons themselves make the least interesting contribution to the film, & except for the final confrontation which almost gets there, they are really secondary to the film itself. If you were to document the amount of dragon screen time, I doubt it would be 18 minutes.

The film was released in Japan with the name Salamander, which was quite unusual. You might have thought it might have called something like Fire Breathing Dragon.

Characters are allowed to show their human side at times, displaying various amounts of fear, uncertainty & emotional vulnerability even at those moments when they are having to be at their most daring & heroic.

One truly clever scene of adults re-enacting the Skywalker/Vader confrontation
helps the film's perspective through the eyes of apocalyptic credibility which makes the film more distinctive.Lire l'avis complet...

Much than expected

Wow, much better film than I would have ever expected for a film released in 2002.. Superb storyline, character and F/X development. Way ahead of their years. Don't know whatever happened to director but he deserves big kudos. Lire l'avis complet...

Reign of Fire - Classic Dragon Flick

I saw this movie one night will surfing the net. I read the description and saw that it had "Thumps Up" from Richard Roeper of Ebert & Roeper and remembered the previews on TV. So I bought it. I really like the plot of the movie, I found it very believable. It was strange seeing Matthew McConaughey in this role, it wasn't till he spoke in the movie that I could tell it was him. He did a great job with his role. The stars of the movie as far as I'm concerned are the Special effects crew, the Dragons were perfect! I just don't beleive anyone could do them better.Lire l'avis complet...

Good dragon flick!

This is not a great movie but it is a very solid movie with good acting from Matthew McConaughey Christian Bale and a young Gerard Butler.
Definitely worth taking a look at.

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Great movie to watch anytime and anywhere.

The fire from that creature reminds me of my second wife. The movie is very good unlike my second wife.
You will enjoy this film.

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A very special Dragon movie!

Don't know why I like this movie? There is just something about it that once you start watching it, you can leave it alone.

REIGN OF FIRE (2002,DVD)

MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND CHRISTIAN BALE STAR IN AN EXPLOSIVE ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE WITH BONE-CHARRING SPECIAL EFFECTS THAT WILL HAVE YOU GLUED TO YOUR SEAT! WHEN A LONDON TUNNELING PROJECT UNCOVERS AN UNEARTHLY FIRE-BREATHING BEAST FROM CENTURIES OF SLUMBER, ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE. 12 YEAR OLD QUINN(BALE) SEES HIS MOTHER, ONE OF THE WORKERS, DIE TRYING TO ESCAPE THE NEW TERROR. 20 YEARS LATER AS A "FIRE CHIEF," HE TRIES TO KEEP A GROUP OF REFUGEES ALIVE WITH FIERCE DRAGONS DOMINATING THE AIR,BURNING THE LAND, AND FEEDING ON ASH. UNEXPECTEDLY, VAN ZAN(MCCONAUGHEY), A HOTSHOT AMERICAN MILITIA LEADER,SHOWS UP WITH A RAGTAG GROUP OF SLAYERS ON A PERILOUS CRUSADE TO HUNT DOWN AND DESTROY THE BEASTS. TEMPERS FLARE WHEN THERE IS A STRUGGLE FOR LEADERSHIP-UNTIL BOTH MEN REALIZE ONLY ONE SPECIES IS GETTING OUT OF THIS ALIVE.Lire l'avis complet...

Dragon war! Good flick.

I don't know how I missed seeing this when it came out! Good flick for a movie night viewing.
Just enough fantasy to set the stage, just the right realistic characters to draw you into the story.

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It’s OK to watch once

Good for a night with nothing to do. Only memorable parts were the dragon special effects and brawling scene.

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