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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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for intense sequences of violence and creature action.
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... 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 Forster, FIREWALL), and a beautiful young woman (Amanda Brooks) all play a role in an old Korean legend coming to life. A giant snake is slithering its way through the streets of Los Angeles, and the trio must keep it from reuniting with an ancient spirit that will turn it into an evil, even more destructive dragon. DRAGON WARS is a throwback to classic monster movies, but this time around, there are much better special effects than audiences saw in those films from both Japan and the U.S. Though the film is from South Korea, director Shim has recruited faces that will be familiar to American audiences, from ROSWELL favorite Behr to Forster, who turned in a career-reviving performance in Quentin Tarantino's JACKIE BROWN. But it's THE OFFICE's Craig Robinson who's the most fun here as a womanizing photographer who teams up with Behr's Ethan. DRAGON WARS is more of a guilty pleasure than fellow Korean import THE HOST, but it features an impressive amount of action and nods to monster movie favorites such as KING KONG and GODZILLA. [More]
Starring: Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Craig Robinson, Elizabeth Peņa
Starring: Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Craig Robinson, Elizabeth Peņa, Robert Forster
Director: Hyung Rae Shim
Director: Hyung Rae Shim
Screenwriter: Hyung Rae Shim
Producer: James Kang
Composer: Steve Jablonsky
Studio: Freestyle Releasing
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Reviews for Dragon Wars
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.
The dialog sounds like it was written by those guys who translate operating instruction manuals from Chinese to English.
The prospect of being a human sacrifice for a roaring, scaly, 600-foot-long monster isn't so appealing.
It's admittedly pretty dumb, but in the end its fierce commitment to its own goofy ideas is oddly admirable.
Destined to go down in history as one of cinema's most blunderingly, catastrophically bad big-budget films of the last few decades.
America does just fine making cringingly terrible special-effect extravaganzas, so back off, South Korea!
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.
The movie that Ed Wood would have made in the era of CGI, complete with awkward editing, wooden acting, and a story that becomes impossible to care about at all.
This is not a movie to watch for escapism. This is a movie to watch with a bunch of friends and heckle mercilessly.
...the only real entertainment comes from watching Robert Forster fruitlessly trying to explain the difference between an Imoogi, a Buraki and a Yuh Yi Joo.
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