Reign of Fire

I think this is the best post-apocalyptic action film since The Road Warrior. Everything about it works: the story, the acting, the sets, the special effects. It amazes me that this film never found it's audience. I think it's fantastic.A really interesting take on the dragon myth. Something never seen before in a film. Unfortunately, that summer of 2002 all anyone could think about was the over hyped debut of "spider man." Such a shame, because this film beats it by a mile in terms of imagination on display. The sequence where men attempt to snare a dragon in mid-air is something that has never been seen before on-screen. Amazing and excellent stuff, pulled off with panache.

Mad Max meets the Dragons. What a silly waste of film. A decent idea with a horrid film attached. And they could have saved a lot of money using B&W film; the rare color of note is only the flames. Grey, blue and black are poor tools. Maybe it's supposed to remind us of old WWII films? The Disney version will probably be better. A study in why simply adding fire and big booms to a movie is not enough. And why, when in species danger, do humans have to dress up as medieval persons? Christian Bale should have quit at 15 and become a tax collector, duller than the sharp end of an egg. Don't pay for it, wait for it on Mystery Theater 3000.

Apart from the fact that the movie does not deliver as much as you'd expect with a budget as big as it had, still, the dragon animations are amazing having in mind that it was 2002. They are looking clean, natural and are way better than those 2012 GOT animations which were awful at some points. Also, I never knew that Matthew was so ripped sometime in his life, in his 30's and that really amazed me in a positive way. 6/10

The first time I watched the movie I thought of the director like a cloaked man with a magic wand makings fires explode all through the film and making his cast run like crazy for their lives! I really liked the film even though I thought it would be just another "dragon story". Nothing could be more than the truth. It is a clever, refreshing, new point of view of the human fear of dragons. A constant futuristic, dark feeling, struggle of the heroes for survival, while at the same time the viewer gets this suspicion that each hero hides a dragon inside, fighting his/her own demons. All thumbs up for all the actors in the film and a pat in the back for the director (he also directed the X-Files). Watch the movie and enjoy the action...looking over your shoulder to check out if there is a dragon flying right at you!

In 2020, mankind is almost annihilated by dragons. Quinn Abercromby (Christian Bale) is the leader of a community of survivals living in a ruined castle nearby London. Denton Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey) is the leader of an army composed by strong survivals that fight against dragons. They arrive to Quinn's castle asking for a secure resting place for a short time. Van Zan advises the survivals that all dragons his group has killed were female and they are searching for the male. They conclude it certainly would be living in London. Quinn will join Van Zan in this enterprise. The first point that called my attention in this movie were the muscles of Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey. Are these actors using steroids? The adventure mixes the apocalyptic society of Mad Max and Waterworld with dragons and entertains. The special effects work on DVD. My vote is seven.

I had never heard of this movie until the Corridor Crew made a video that talked about it. This movie is actually really good! I love the explanations on how stuff happened, and how the dragons were explained. I thought it was pretty genius actually. And the VFX all really hold up, which is actually really surprising for having been made back in 2002. I honestly do not know why this movie has such low rated reviews on a lot of different sites. This movie is definitely unappreciated by a lot of people.