Dragonheart (1986)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 15
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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
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A boy and his dragon unite to fight evil in this fantasy. Bowen (Dennis Quaid), a Knight of The Old Code in Medieval times, is summoned by Aislinn the Queen (Julie Christie) to the bedside of her son, Einon, who is also Bowen's student. Einon has been wounded and is near death; with his heart about to give out, Bowen calls upon Draco (voice of Sean Connery), the mightiest dragon in the land, asking for a sliver of his mighty heart so that the boy might survive. Draco makes Bowen pledge that when
May 31, 1996 Wide
Feb 24, 1998
MCA Universal Home Video
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Cast
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Dennis Quaid
Bowen -
Sean Connery
"Draco" -
David Thewlis
King Einon -
Pete Postlethwaite
Gilbert -
Dina Meyer
Kara -
Julie Christie
Aislinn -
Jason Isaacs
Lord Felton -
John Gielgud
King Arthur -
Brian Thompson
Brok -
Eva Vejmelkova
Felton's Minx -
Milan Bahul
Swamp Village Chief -
Terry O'Neill
Redbeard -
Lee Oakes
Young Einon -
Peter Hric
King Freyne -
Wolf Christian
Hewe -
Sandra Kovacicova
Young Kara -
Kyle Cohen
Boy In Field -
Thom Baker
Aislinn's Chess Partner -
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All Critics (45) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (15) | DVD (10)
A laughable disaster.
Exciting fantasy flick has Connery voicing the dragon.
Harmless family entertainment, but not especially satisfying.
Seeing a large CG dragon talk like Sean Connery is mildly disconcerting. What's weird is the big lizard actually kinda looks like our beloved bald Scot.
Morality tale with an unsual team of heroes.
The script and the direction drags a lot. It gets way too wordy at times.
Audience Reviews for Dragonheart
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- "Draco": You must have hated us very much.
- Bowen: I only hated one of you. These I killed because I wanted to kill him. But I never found and I never will. Since you're the last, he must be dead.
- "Draco": Tell me, what was he like, this dragon you hated?
- Bowen: He only had half a heart, but even that was enough to pollute an innocent boy.
- "Draco": Einon was no innocent! HE polluted the heart!
- Bowen: How do you know that? How do you know that, dragon?
- "Draco": [trying to carefully choose his words] All dragons know that story. What was to be their hope became their doom; a spoiled ungrateful child was given a great gift and destroyed it!
- Bowen: No! I knew Einon. I was his mentor, I taught him the ways of right of honor.
- "Draco": Then he betrayed you just as he did the dragon whose heart he broke.
- Bowen: That's a lie, dragon!
- "Draco": STOP CALLING ME DRAGON! I have a name.
- Bowen: Well what is it?
- "Draco": It's impossible to pronounce it in your tongue.
- Bowen: Try me.
- "Draco": It's... [a fiery pain in his left shoulder sends him to the ground]
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- Bowen: [teaching Gilbert to archer] Draw your bow, sight along the arrow, release! [releases the arrow, arrow sticks in the dummy's head]
- Hewe: Beginner's luck. Try again!
- Bowen: Steady... [releases the arrow, arrow sticks in the wooden dummy's crotch] [impressed, laughing] Brother Gilbert, you're a natural!
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- Gilbert: [to the cannidbal-threating mob having just learned of Bowen's scheme, suspecting his involvement] Peace, brothers! Peace! [the mob keeps coming, he turns to run] Heathens!
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- Bowen: [the villagers pelt Kara when she alls for rebellion] Why waste good food on bad rhetoric?
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- Gilbert: [voiceover] And in the days following Draco's sacrifice, Bowen and Kara led the people in a time of justice and brotherhood. As I remember it now, those were golden years warmed by an unworldly light. And when things became the most difficult, Draco's star shown more brightly for all of us who knew where to look.
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- Gilbert: [Bowen has just pretended to kill Draco for a second time] Well done, Bowen! You've done it again! What a brute! That's even bigger than the last one!
- Bowen: Actually, he's about the same size.
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It is just simply too weird to see dragon speaking with Sean Connery's voice. Everytime film's Draco opens it's mouth the end result is hilarious. While director Rob Cohen and his crew meant Draco clearly to be something closer of an noble and charming, it is actually more like an parody of an dragon.
Dragonheart does have concept which is interesting and could have turned even into a something exciting. Sadly Cohen's approach feels lazy and sloppy.
Acting is below average and even horrible at times. This film has possibly the worst performance ever from often good Dennis Quaid and actors like Pete Postlethwaite, Julie Christie and David Thewlis are not that impressive neither. Still the biggest problem with this film is the fact that it is too violent, boring and anemic for the most of kids and too silly for the adult audiences.
Dragonheart is a failed family entertainment at it's worst. And when it comes to effects they are nothing that special. It is actually surprise that something this weak comes from hands of special effects experts of Industrial Light & Magic.
There are so many better fantasy films out there than director Rob Cohen's Dragonheart. This is an odd failure if you look how much talent was involved in making of this film.