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Reign of Fire (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 59
Rotten:88
Average Rating: 5.2/10
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 destroys the site and kills his... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler
Director: Rob Bowman
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02/09/06
Top Critic While the dragons come out blazing, the rest of the movie is blowing smoke.
12/06/04
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05/19/04
Top Critic
It's painful to watch actors like McConaughey and Bale, who showed so much potential at one time in their careers, shamelessly overact and spout inane dialogue.
09/06/03
...McConaughey goes for broke and turns this guy into an amalgam of every hard-nosed soldier previously committed to celluloid.
08/01/03
Roteiro absurdo, história frágil, personagens pouco agradáveis e ação nada empolgante.
07/25/03
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06/01/03
Top Critic If London in cinders and medium rare sky-diving soldiers can't get you into the cinema, you're probably one of those people who were never fascinated by matches as a child.
04/08/03
Reign Of Fire should at least be a marvel of special effects, but alas, even the dragon's not very much fun.
02/08/03
Reign of Fire is the schoolyard bully who used to beat the crap out of you during breaks: it is big, loud, dumb and never explains itself.
01/20/03
Top Critic Despite a few epic revelations, we never get a real sense of living, breathing dragons.
11/18/02
Wouldn't you have thought that a studio about to spend over $90,000,000 on a movie would have begun with a script instead of a few special effects?
11/12/02
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