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Reign of Fire
U/A (INDIA)
2002
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Reign of Fire
Positive Reviews
23
Negative reviews
16
Average Rating
2.7
/5
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2.0
Reign of Fires premise is a great one, matching our ongoing love affair with dragons to an apocalyptic vision straight out of recent headlines.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Its curiously bracing to watch an action movie in which the cast take the dialogue seriously: theres not a tongue in cheek in sight.
Screen Daily
1.3
One regards Reign of Fire with awe. What a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea.
Rogerebert
2.5
Im quite sure the filmmaker can defend this kind of escapist action genre film without any need of my assistance.
Sover
1.9
Given the choice between the humans in this movie and the dragons, Im rooting for the cockroaches.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.5
Other than that, this is a perfectly good summer action popcorn film with plenty of action and some good eye candy to boot.
Lariat
3.5
As movies about dragons go, Reign of Fire is a pretty good one.Its reasonably smart, rather imaginative and very hard working.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Now that might have made an interesting movie, but the movies budget probably dictated setting it in the wilderness of Northern England so all the mon ..
News Review
2.0
Unfortunately, the filmmakers here have opted to ignore that cinematic tenet with subsequently disappointing results.
Screen It
2.0
The script isnt much better, though it does manage a superb Star Wars gag that almost makes up for all its inadequacies elsewhere.Ultimately, Reign of ..
View London
2.5
Unfortunately, the film fails to deliver enough of what sci fi fans want.
Film Journal
2.0
And that wouldnt matter so much if it didnt oh so very quickly become apparent that the films advertising promised a much more spectacular spectacle o ..
Mountain X
3.1
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
3.5
The CGI flying dragon stuff is strictly average, but Aliens cinematographer Adrian Biddle knows how to photograph a rotting plane, and the story is en ..
Ew
1.5
The visuals are sub par, pedestrian and far from impressive and the scenery is dull grimy and wasted.All in all, it garners so much potential for a la ..
Cinema Crazed
2.0
As every kid knows, in typical creature feature theres usually the threat that if a particular giant lizard, monster spider, or ravenous alien isnt el ..
Common Sense Media
0.0
The advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap. Any rock pile will do for a set. Reign of Fire has the disadvantage of ..
Sf Gate
3.0
What should be a load of utter rubbish is actually surprisingly entertaining.
Bbc
3.1
That the film works best when its dragons are off screen says more about Bowmans impressive use of landscape as terror mechanism than the quality of t ..
Slant Magazine
2.5
The premise of Reign of Fire is an exciting one that, ultimately, does not translate into an exciting film.
The Movie Boy
3.2
For the most part, this is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action, cheese, ham and cheek (as well as a serious debt to The Road Warrior), but it ..
Reeling Reviews
4.5
But thats not enough when we could have had so much more.Reign of Fire could have stirred the soul instead its too loud soundtrack merely shakes you i ..
Flickfilosopher
3.8
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
3.0
Movies offer us wildly divergent stories with vivid, close up emotions, and so did the six fimmakers we invited to take part in the Envelope Directors ..
Calendar Live
2.8
The screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a Dungeons and Dragons fantasy with modern ..
Seattle Pi
3.1
The two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire breathing monsters barbecue with their breath...
Spliced Wire
3.1
But without a compelling storyline or characters worth rooting for, the film becomes a barely engaging action/adventure romp.
Reel Film
3.1
Mankind has fixated on dragon genocide as one last little moral victory
Movie Habit
3.1
And, oddly enough, it also allows the filmmakers to develop the human characters here.
Deseret News
2.5
Reign Of Fire has a derivative feel, despite its splendid production design.
Urban Cine File
1.3
McConnaughy had to do some serious weight room work for this role and one can only be impressed with the fine definition.
Varia Gate
2.5
Sometimes Im surprised and the movie turns out to be better or worse than I expected.
Three Movie Buffs
3.0
Shot on location in Ireland but looking every bit the post apocalyptic popcorn muncher, Reign of Fire is another worthy addition to whats turning into ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
1.9
McConaugheys fun to watch, the dragons are okay, not much fire in the script.
Ross Anthony
1.3
The flying beasts look amazing and when theyre in action the movie is visually exhilarating.
Big Picture Big Sound
2.5
Unfortunately, the actual movie fails to do justice to its premise.
Montreal Film Journal
2.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
1.5
Its not funny enough to make you laugh, just enough to make to wish you hadnt paid the admission price.
Film Quips Online
2.5
It is the sort of movie where it is best to just go with the flow and not ask any questions like: just where do the Yank convoy stash all the fuel to ..
Scifi Movie Page
3.8
Why new Lions DT Harrison is nicknamed Snacks Why new Lions DT Harrison is nicknamed Snacks The Detroit Lions bolstered their struggling run defense o ..
Freep
2.0
The film spends much of its time with ominous tedium and the struggle between Quinns caution and Dentons gung ho, the dialogue too underwritten to be ..
Films Nobs
3.1
Mostly though, its an excuse to hang a series of sequences that seem combine elements from nearly every action movie every made.
Movie Martyr
3.5
Spielberg perfected this grand tradition in the mid seventies with Jaws.
Juicy Cerebellum
4.0
One things for sure: Ill never picture Puff the Magic Dragon in the same light again.
Ear Of Newt
3.8
The acting is much above average for action films and takes advantage of the depth of an experienced actor like Bale.
Fantastic A Daily
5.0
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3 Black Chicks
3.0
Its hard to imagine a better futuristic flying dragon movie than this, if one can imagine such a thing at all. However, while we wait for such a compa ..
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