Reign Of Fire (DVD)

Mrs P bought me a sword as an engagement present a while back and for my recent birthday- I got a throwing axe. Those that have read my other opinions may know that I will soon be having a medieval wedding and one of my guinea pigs is called Merlin. So it may come as no surprise that swords, sorcery and fantasy in general are definitely my kind of thing. Therefore, taking me to see Reign of Fire seemed like an appropriate choice. I really wanted to love this film, being a stopgap until The Two Towers comes out at the end of the year. So I settled impatiently into my bucket seat and waited to be enthralled. Story **** The original idea had a ...  Read the complete review

Reign of Fire is built around a potentially very exciting premise: fire-breathing dragons are real, and have been biding their time hibernating deep in the bowels of the earth for thousands of years, only to re-emerge in the 21st century and wreak havoc around the globe, razing countless cities to the ground and perpetuating a nuclear holocaust as nations desperately try and fight back with nuclear weapons. A familiar mad-max style post-apocalyptic landscape emerges, albeit this time with huge fire-breathing reptiles haunting the skies, whilst humanity is reduced to tiny bands that employ a mix of archaic and modern technology in their struggles to survive, the film ...  Read the complete review

I was somewhat dubious about adding this film to my lovefilm rental list as I had heard some pretty awful things about it. Reviews call it mediocre at best. However I love dragons, I love action and I also love the three main cast members, so I added it anyway. And I was not disappointed. Reign of Fire was released in 2002 with the line "fight fire with fire". It boasts a great cast with Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey (I had to look that one up to spell it lol) and Gerard Butler playing the male leads and Izabella Scorupco (the Bond girl in Goldeneye) playing the female supporting role. Basic ...  Read the complete review

For some reason I liked this movie. Even with its simplistic Playstaion plot of good guys kill dragons and the portent of yet another grim dystopia wasteland to come as a pixel background for yet another grim metaphor for death on screen, its still feels something different and original. What a quirky idea of Dragons taking over the world, feeding of the ash of all living things to survive, the remaining humans rustling around in fear amongst the smoldering remains scavenging for food.Thats some barbeque. The casting of Christian Bale as the hero is great fun as he does have certain intense screen presence and enjoys tackling the more interesting movie, whilst ...  Read the complete review

Reign of Fire seems to be one of those movies that you either love or hate, very few people seem to fall into a middle category. You either buy into this type of post apocalypse fantasy or you find it all a bit childish. That said this in my opinion is one of the best of its kind in this genre. It is a bit of all things, its part fantasy, part horror but set in a possible not to distant future, if you can dont have a problem with the world of Mad Max 2 or Waterworld, then you will probably have no problem with the settinig of this film. The story begins in the normal world of the near present, everything as familiar and as it should be. The young Quinn visits ...  Read the complete review