Age of the Dragons (2010)
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Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 10
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Saints and Soldiers director Ryan Little offers this inventive take on Herman Mellville's Moby Dick, substituting that tale's elusive white shark for a mythical dragon pursued by a determined Captain Ahab (Danny Glover) and his devoted band of followers. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick gets a landlocked remix courtesy of ill-conceived action-adventure Age of the Dragons.
Top CriticWatch the opening sequence, skip everything that else that follows.
Might have worked in the hands of Roger Corman and John Sayles.
Like a harpoon in the side of Herman Melville's great novel, this low budget fantasy yarn is more drag than dragon.
There is some truth in advertising - Age Of The Dragons does drag on for an age.
Dreadful Moby Dick adaptation that squanders its perfectly decent set-up and is further let down by a terrible script, atrocious acting, poor action sequences and some extremely dodgy special effects.
Sadly, any car-crash appeal is undercut by the cardinal B-movie sin: dullness.
Entirely forgettable and somewhat unhealthy, lingering on the palate like an impulsive, Friday-night kebab.
When the dystopian future envisioned in Blade Runner finally comes to fruition, Age of the Dragons will be used to distinguish humans from replicants, because if you're not in teary despair by the film's end, you probably aren't human.
Fans of How to Train Your Dragon will certainly be disappointed, much like everyone else.
As the actors ham it up, we're surprised how involved we get in their increasingly ridiculous story.
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I think this could of worked had a little more time and money been invested, the cast are OK I guess..for an action type film, Danny Glover is a little miscast as 'Ahab' perhaps but Vinnie Jones does surprisingly well as does the hero Sevier as 'Ishmael'. Nothing to rave about of course but the cheesiness of it all suits them fine and you know to expect cheese.
Of course the effects are slightly off key, cgi is average but shows promise, even the use of old techniques used by Harryhausen are used at one point which almost works (oddly it looked better in the old mythology films of Harryhausen). Then you do have silly things which needed more planning such as the 'Pequod' as a wheeled land tank/ship, didn't really work as it was way too small looking despite about eight adults apparently living in it with lots of quarters shown, plus how did it run? petrol? diesel? ;)
I must also mention my dislike of virtually everyone in action films these days being some kind of martial arts expert and able to defeat multiple enemies without breaking sweat, it really is so so over used and in this film so out of place, what's wrong with some good old fashioned fisticuffs?
A nice idea but the execution is weak, worth checking out if you like dragon flicks though.
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