Reign of Fire (Widescreen): Amazon.ca: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler, Scott Moutter, David Kennedy, Alexander Siddig, Ned Dennehy, Rory Keenan, Terence Maynard, Doug Cockle, Randall Carlton, Rob Bowman, Bruce Moriarty, Chris Chrisafis, Dean Zanuck, Derek Evans, Gregg Chabot, Kevin Peterka, Matt Greenberg: DVD

Frequently Bought Together

Product Description

Version Francaise Incluse

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

(What's this?)

Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.

classic sword and sorcery(1)

Customer Reviews

148 Reviews

5 star:		(18)
4 star:		(37)
3 star:		(44)
2 star:		(29)
1 star:		(20)

Average Customer Review

3.0 out of 5 stars (148 customer reviews)

Share your thoughts with other customers:

Create your own review

Most helpful customer reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Dragons, ok actors, bad story., Sep 25 2007

By

Luke Dickey "a rock and rolling dude!" (Middle Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reign of Fire (Widescreen) (DVD)

I watched this movie thinking it would be about dragons destroying cities, eating people and fighting armies. Sure not the greatest plot but fun and has lots of dragon action. But that was not what I got.

Bad things: The plot was awful. Just when you think it was going to get good [huge dragon comes out of the ground] it skips to like 20 years later. When you think you'll see dragons flying around cities and destroying them and instead you get people sitting around in ruins in a chard landscape you'd be disappointed to. And also from that part on you just get like 3 parts with dragons in them. Boring.

Good things: The dragons were cool! They looked very well done and were some of the best movie dragons I've seen. I think that the dragons didn't look to stereotypical or to cartoon-like. Like most others. Also the acting was ok.

All in all pretty bad movie. Just see it for the dragons. I would have given this movie one star but the special effects were great so it gets two.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Sigh...What a disappointment, Nov 28 2002

By

bixodoido (Utah, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reign of Fire (Widescreen) (DVD)

The whole premise for this movie is cool. The old legends were true--there WERE dragons back in Midieval days. They also killed the dinosaurs, brought on the ice age with their ash, and starved themselves into hibernation. Then one day some engineers dug too deep (as engineers always do in these kinds of movies) and the whole world went to pot.

Cool concept, huh? Too bad there wasn't much beyond that. I was ready and rarin' for lots of action, but there was very little, and it was sporadic and not even that great. The plot is okay, not very original, and was pretty entertaining for one viewing. I don't know if I could sit through it again, though.

In short, this is one of those movies that looked really cool but proved to be a let-down. My advice? Watch it once (if you like this kind of movie) before you decide to buy. I know I won't be owning this one.

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Wasted Opportunity, Aug 12 2004

By

John (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reign of Fire (VHS Tape)

This is so typical of misleading hype and false advertising. Awesome posters of dragons burning up London, as Apache Copters engage in intense battle with them. Sounds really great, doesn't it? Well, SURPRISE! None of this is to be found in this dreary disappointer.We begin with a suspenseful, promising opening scene where a dragon is accidentally unearthed in a London excavation site, and escapes. So far, so good. Now for the bad news: The director (for whatever moronic reasons) then cuts to '20 Years Later' - after everything that is worth seeing has already happened. WTF??!!Imagine if something like WAR OF THE WORLDS began with the Martians' arrival, then immediately jumps ahead a few years after all the action and suspense has occured. Bet you'd really love that. I can envision furious audiences storming the box office, demanding their money back - and rightfully so. You just don't pull something as deceptively cheesy as that, and expect any loyalty from your disgruntled audience and ex-fans. RoF skips right past the real story of the dragons' assault on the modern world, and their eventual destruction of civilization. Wouldn't that have made a far greater movie than this tepid dreck, which only has fleeting moments of any real action? Imagine spectacular scenes of cities being devastated by armies of dragons, with modern technologies' desperate fight to try to stop them. And when the scientists learn that they caused the dinosaurs' extinction - and a flashback that SHOWS this.With a decent script and right director, a prequel could really deliver. Just keep Roland Emmerich and all his idiocy far away from it.Otherwise, another vapid wasted opportunity that could have really delivered - if anyone had bothered to care.And the budget was $95,000,000. So don't give me that 'not enough money' cop-out. How about a serious prequel? Or am I 'asking too much' from most of the bozos involved in 'film making' today?

Help other customers find the most helpful reviews

Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Report abuse

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review

› See all 148 customer reviews on Amazon.ca

Want to see more reviews on this item?

› Go to Amazon.com to see all 341 reviews 3.4 out of 5 stars

Most recent customer reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than most
Gerard Butler brings a sensitivity to the movie, as well as the courage and bravory of a "Knight". Read more

Published on July 17 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars not bad despite the negative reviews
Many people felt the need to trash this movie just because it didn't have dragons in every scene. While there are better dragon films, Reign of Fire had some good special effects... Read more

Published on July 15 2004 by Thomas