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Dragon Wars (2007)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:8
Rotten:24
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Dragon Wars' special effects can't make up for an unfocused script and stale acting.
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
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
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09/22/07
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
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
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 prospect of being a human sacrifice for a roaring, scaly, 600-foot-long monster isn't so appealing.
09/15/07
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10/18/08
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
Destined to go down in history as one of cinema's most blunderingly, catastrophically bad big-budget films of the last few decades.
09/15/07
This is not a movie to watch for escapism. This is a movie to watch with a bunch of friends and heckle mercilessly.
09/14/07
America does just fine making cringingly terrible special-effect extravaganzas, so back off, South Korea!
09/14/07
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
One of those films that I would swerve into on the SciFi Channel late one night and stay up until the wee hours of the morning to watch without feeling guilty at all.
09/14/07
Takes such leaps and bounds of mediocrity and utterly nonsensical storylines that it ends up being a jumbled mess...
09/24/07
blissfully awful
09/30/07
This monster film makes even the remake of Godzilla look good.
09/14/07
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09/15/07
A movie without a single redeeming quality that we highly recommend.
10/15/07
This one's for connoisseurs of the "totally preposterous crap" school of fantasy cinema. You know who you are: You have all the Warlock sequels on Laserdisc [and] the complete Leprechaun series on DVD.
09/15/07
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