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Reign of Fire (2002)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:12
Rotten:17
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: An enjoyable B-movie if you don't use your brain.
Theatrical Release:Jul 12, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $42,929,971
Synopsis: In present-day London, 10-year-old Quinn visits his construction engineer mother at her work. When he crawls into a cavern the workers have uncovered, he finds a large, fire-breathing dragon--which... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler
Director: Rob Bowman
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Reviews for Reign of Fire
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08/09/02
Top CriticSomebody get a hose and put this Fire out.
07/25/02
Top CriticPeaks early with a vertiginous dogfight; thereafter, spotty CGI and a bamboozling plot conspire toward a colossal anticlimax.
07/16/02
Top CriticI'm not going to argue that Reign of Fire is a good movie, but it's terribly entertaining it's kind of a classic camp film, so I'm giving it thumbs up.
07/15/02
Top CriticUltimately fails to come through in the fire-breathing clutch.
07/14/02
Top CriticThe season could do with more grinning, spinning, un-self-important, happy-to-be-B throwback movies like this one.
07/13/02
Top CriticA disaster of a drama, saved only by its winged assailants.
07/12/02
Top CriticSilly, loud and goofy.
07/12/02
Top CriticThe filmmakers might have benefited from more sleep before penning the script.
07/12/02
Top CriticIt's hard to imagine a better futuristic flying dragon movie than this, if one can imagine such a thing at all. However, while we wait for such a comparison, we could probably do a lot worse than Reign Of Fire.
07/12/02
Top CriticThe advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap. Any rock pile will do for a set. Reign of Fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap.
07/12/02
Top CriticReign of Fire is basically one great set piece surrounded by thickets of iron filings, oily hair and knotty-pine acting.
07/12/02
Top CriticA more enjoyable neo-dragon flick than 1981's Dragonslayer, with its lesser effects, or 1996's Dragonheart, with its soft heart for the monsters.
07/12/02
Top CriticSuspension of disbelief is one thing but this movie asks viewers to suspend logic and right reason as well.
07/12/02
Top CriticReign of Fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond Road Warrior, it owes enormous debts to Aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining.
07/12/02
Top CriticOne regards Reign of Fire with awe. What a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea.
07/12/02
Top CriticFalls neatly into the category of Good Stupid Fun.
07/12/02
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07/12/02
Top CriticThis is the film that the American Godzilla could have been, but wasn't.
07/12/02
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