Dragonheart - Die Kraft des Feuers

Having watched all the Dragonheart movies so far, the ranking for me goes like this now: 1. Dragonheart 2. Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse 3. Dragonheart (4): Battle for the Heartfire 4. Dragonheart (2): A New Beginning 5. Dragonheart (5): Vengeance.

The CGI is fantastic in this movie and trumps the first even. (Alright it's fantastic by Dragonheart standards). I was genuinely surprised by how good the dragon and various spells and effects looked, heartfire and all. The dragon gets a lot of screen time in this movie too, which is very welcome.

This also means a lot of the budget went on said CGI. But I'm glad for that. The set pieces and costumes were also good, but scale was often a bit out, sometimes a town looks massive and there seem to be maybe 15 inhabitants in total. They should've used the CGI for extra people maybe.. -1 star

The story, at its core, is quite engaging. A tale of twins marked at birth, unbeknownst to the dragon they're bonded to.

The writing, on the other hand is very unpredictable in quality. It actually has very good moments, then suddenly just becomes below-average for a time, then peaks again. No joke, there are some good lines in this movie. But then the writers take a couple days off. -1 star

The dragon, Drago, is written well and Patrick Stewart's voice is just great. The second best dragon in the series I'd say. Now the writers did have trouble keeping Drago a dragon. There are points in the movie where you'd think he was a man from how clumsy he is or how he loses a fight. It's very weird... but thankfully like the rest of the story, he has his strong moments to make up for it. -1 star

The feminism half-way through the movie slows it to a crawl and feels like it does make some form of sense with the story, so maybe if it was done with a bit more humour and wasn't so baked into the main story, it could've worked. -1 star.

The music is alright. It's pretty sparse and suddenly appears out of nowhere here and there, but it's good enough.

Overall, an enjoyable movie for Dragonheart fans, for others, it depends on whether or not you can stomach some bad dialogue here and there. There are good moments to be had.

This movie was very touching. It was more character driven then your average Dragon Fantasy. You feel for these characters.

A few quibbles: the revisionist Feminism did not make sense. There was a lot of Game of Thrones. Especially the Brother-Sister "close" relationship. Some of the supporting characters were throw away.

On the other hand, for a low budget movie the special effects were pretty good. Patrick Stewart is a worthy successor to Sean Connery.

All in all I enjoyed this movie.

The free-breathing dragon Drago : voice by Patrick Stewart , attempts to end the rivalty between brother : Tom Rhys and sister who is supported by nasty Vikings . Things go wrong when a new threat takes place , as these Vikings try to take the kingdom .

A fantasy movie packing thrills , emotion , spectacular battles, and overwhelming adventures . This is a medium budget follow-up in which there's a strong confrontation between two brothers and some Vikings . The plot is well known and similar to other entries , as dragon Drago and two siblings become intricately bonded, as their bodies share with one heart . The huge dragon is brought to life by means of state-of-art special effects . The film was produced in budget enough by Raffaela de Laurentiis , Dina's daughter , and she financed the complete series . Adding an emotive musical score in which is usually heard the classic leitmotif by Randy Edelman . The motion picture was professionally directed , though being inferior other entries .

This one belongs to Dragonheart series formed by the following ones : the best original Dragonheart 1996 by Rob Cohen with voice Drago by Sean Connery , Dennis Quaid , Dina Meyer , Jason Isaacs , Julie Christie. Dragonheart a new beginning 2000 by Doug Leifer with voice by Robby Benson , Chris Masterson, Figueroa , Harry Von Gorkum. Dragonheart 3 the sorcerer's curse 2015 by Colin Teague , voice by Ben Kingsley with Julian Morris , Tamzin Merchant , Roger Ashton Griffiths . Dragonheart Battle for the Heartfire 2017 by Patrik Syversen with voice by Patrck Steawart , Tom Rhys Harries , Jessamine Bliss Bell, Tamzin Merchant . And Dragonheart 4 Vengeance 2020 by Ivan Silvestrini , voice by Helena Bonham Carter with Joseph Milson, Jack Kane

Fun family Bmovie flick that's going to suffer from a few various trends

-the hatred for Dragonheart sequels.

-the current anti-PC culture that starts screeching about their hatred for feminism when a woman shows any sign of strength.

All by all unwarranted negatives, this movie was surprisingly entertaining and well made. If you like medieval stories with dragons that aren't into burning humanity to the ground, it's certainly worth checking it out.

And no, for the love of it, you do NOT need to see Dragonheart 3 to understand what's going on. In fact, if you have seen DH1 then I suggest skipping 2 and 3 entirely and go straight to 4.

For a movie with low budget, it was pretty decent ! I rated this movie for it's standards. I really wish this saga to continue ! SHOW THEM THE MONEEEEYYYYY !!