Reign of Fire
by Rob Bowman
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Actor: Christian Bale, Gerard Butler, Izabella Scorupco, Matthew McConaughey, Scott MoutterDirector: Rob Bowman
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Bruce Moriarty
Producer: Chris Chrisafis
Producer: Dean Zanuck
Producer: Derek Evans
Writer: Gregg Chabot
Writer: Kevin Peterka
Writer: Matt Greenberg
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Product features:
- TESTED OK
- UNKNOWN DATE ON THIS DVD
Movie Reviews of Reign of Fire
Movie Review: The sweetest movie ever!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Reign Of Fire"
Christian Bale stars as Quinn Abercromby, a protector and a father of many people in a dragon infested world. In his childhood (staring Ben Thorton) he witnessed the scene of a fire breathing dragon brake out from under London after a millennia of sleep. It killed his engineer mother Karen (Alice Krige). Soon the world was filled with dragons, they burned everything destroyable that they could find in order to consume the ashes. Civilization was shortened to few families and few groups of people clinging to survival. Twenty years later, it is protector and father Quinn's job to keep his community alive and safe, by scaring the dragons off and leading his community to survival.
Into this desperate community comes an American named Denton Van Zan (staring Matthew McConaughey). With his team of so-called dragon specialists, they hunt down and destroy dragons. Although the work is extremely dangerous, and the survival rate of his group is very low. Using skydivers to bait the dragon into nets, the skydivers' survival rate is 17 seconds. Denton supplies them with a lot of military firepower. He demonstrates that the dragons are not supernatural creatures but living beasts that can be destroyed. However there are so many dragons all over the world that they need a better plan if they are all the species. In the end only one of the two species can survive.
Reign of Fire has an interesting story to it. The dragon effects are amazing, such as the part when the male dragon attacks the castle. But the dragons don't appear as often as I would like them to but at least they did appear. It would have been nice to see some of the destruction of civilizations rather than hear about it. They say the dragons destroy everything to consume the ash but are constantly eating living humans instead. One thing I don't get is why they don't explain how the male dragon survives under London for a millennia. Quinn's community seems so unprepared that it is hard to believe they have lasted this long. The only character that you can really remember is Denton Van Zan. Most of the other characters seem to just be there as dragon distraction. That being said, the great effects and amazing dragons go a long way in this movie, and fans of the genre will find it worth watching.
I loved this movie it is my favorite movie of all time. I have watched this movie over and over again many many times. I love the fantasy the author of this story put into it. It is an amazing story. This story has a good flow and has so many cool characters that have weird personalities, like Denton Van Zan.
I recommend this movie to anyone who loves fantasies or movies with action in it. I especially recommend this movie to dragon lovers; this movie put a perfect picture of what a dragon may look like if it really existed.
-Alexander Misterman
Summary of Reign of Fire
Matthew McConaughey (U-571) and Christian Bale (SHAFT) star in an explosive action-packed adventure with bone-charring special effects that will have you glued to your seat! When workers in a London tunneling project awaken an unearthly fire-breathing beast from centuries of slumber, all hell breaks loose. Twelve-year-old Quinn (Bale) sees his mother, one of the workers, die trying to escape this new terror. Twenty years later as a "fire chief," he tries to keep a group of refugees alive with fierce dragons dominating the air, burning the land and feeding on the ash. Unexpectedly, Van Zan (McConaughey), a hotshot American militia leader, shows up with a ragtag group of slayers on a perilous crusade to hunt down and destroy the beasts. Tempers flare when there is a struggle for leadership -- until both men realize only one species is getting out of this alive.The Road Warrior meets Dragonslayer in the briskly entertaining post-apocalyptic action thriller Reign of Fire. Reign of Fire exists primarily to give us a bigger and better dragon than the Vermithrax Pejorative of 1981's classic Dragonslayer, and in that regard, the special effects are mightily impressive; the reptilian fire-breathers are stupendously convincing. While the earlier film offers a richer, more whimsical medieval adventure, Reign of Fire is a fast-moving tale of man versus dragon that takes place in the charred England of 2020, after Earth has been scorched by rapidly multiplying dragons and the aftermath of a futile nuclear counterstrike. Mixing high-tech gadgetry with primitive survivalism, X-Files alumnus Rob Bowman makes the most of his midlevel budget, establishing a lavish castle base for the rugged, adversarial teaming of Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey as dragonslayers on the brink of extinction. With a steady supply of crowd-pleasing highlights, Reign of Fire is a pyrotechnical treat. --Jeff Shannon
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