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Dragon Wars (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 8
Rotten:22
Average Rating: 3.6/10
Consensus: Dragon Wars' special effects can't make up for an unfocused script and stale acting.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release: Sep 14, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $10,956,379
Synopsis: East meets West, and ancient myth meets modernity in this creature feature from Korean director Hyung Rae Shim (REPTILIAN). A TV news reporter (Jason Behr, SKINWALKERS), an antiques dealer (Robert... [More]
Starring: Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Craig Robinson, Elizabeth Peña
Director: Hyung Rae Shim
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Reviews for Dragon Wars
DRAGON WARS knows it's dumb, and just has fun. It's my new guilty pleasure!
08/22/08
By no reasonable reckoning can the film be considered a competent piece of cinematic storytelling, yet somehow the movie transcends its silly screenplay with over-the-top action and visually imaginative battles.
07/10/08
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09/26/07
This one really should have been immediately relegated to the discount bin.
09/24/07
Takes such leaps and bounds of mediocrity and utterly nonsensical storylines that it ends up being a jumbled mess...
09/24/07
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09/22/07
The painful English-language sequences almost don't matter: The rock-'em-sock-'em monster melees truly are spectacular, even if the images sometimes seem more hazy than tactile, as is typical of digital special effects.
09/21/07
The concept here is fun -- good and evil dragons of ancient Korean legend do battle in modern-day Los Angeles -- but a lazy and amateurish script and embarrassingly hollow acting hobble it right out of the gate.
09/20/07
We've all heard of movies so bad they're good, and some folks have them on DVD, in captivity. But how many of us have seen one in the wild?
09/18/07
It is such a breathless, delirious stew, it’s impossible not to be entertained, provided -- this is crucial -- you have a sense of humor.
09/17/07
Top Critic Shim's picture is suitable for youngsters and delivers enough goofy fun to keep adults with fond memories of Destroy All Monsters (1968) from getting restless.
09/17/07
When they decide to sic [those monsters] on downtown Los Angeles, the movie turns shockingly watchable. Until that sequence, there was no evidence that anybody involved with this laughable fantasy knew what he or she was doing.
09/17/07
Top Critic The rampaging-monsters flick Dragon Wars loudly speaks the universal language of effects-laden mayhem. Unfortunately, it is also fluent in the laughable dialogue of a million bad fantasy flicks.
09/17/07
Top Critic The only winners in Dragon Wars are the computer-imaging geeks who must have logged tons of overtime. The rest of the world is left scratching its head at a monster epic so dismal that it doesn’t even register as a guilty pleasure.
09/17/07
Top Critic Written as well as directed by Hyung-rae Shim, which apparently means Uwe Boll in Korean, [it's] so campily awful that it's Mystery Science Theater-ready.
09/16/07
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