Dragon

I found it difficult to sit still. The film was just dull and boring. I love fantasy totally, dragons and the like. I tried hard to give this film a chance, but halfway through I was wondering when it will go on. It was like watching paint dry. It had some people dressed up in a forest, playing with swords and arrows, then a dragon you hardly ever see. It was mainly chit chat, and zero mystery, no action or adventure. The only nice thing was the scenes of mountains and forests.

I'm a sucker for sword and sorcery movies, but after reading many bad reviews I was regretting renting this one. Then I watched it, and was quite entertained. With any low budget fantasy movie you have to watch with lower expectations. They usually lack in acting and script-writing, this did not. The actors and actresses gave a good performance. The story was straight forward, easy to follow, and didn't try to be more than it should be. I think the things that hurt the movie the most were the sound problems (when your shooting on location it's hard to get good sound), the integration of the CG dragon, and to a lesser extent, some of the shots were framed funny. From what I understand this movie cost a half million dollars to make. Lord of the Rings cost more than 200 million, yet was not 400 times better than this movie. So, in terms of ratios, Dragon is a better movie than LotR. Ah, but seriously, I enjoyed the movie and will watch the rest of the trilogy (if it gets made). Heck, I may even buy it if it's cheap enough.

I'm seeing all of these negative comments about this movie, but clearly these are people who don't know the industry at all.

Actually, I was extremely impressed, given the budget. I've seen worse films that cost WAY more to make.

The negative people here are all comparing this film to films with $100 million to $150 million dollar budgets. The budget on this film was not $100 million, or $10 Million, or even ONE million dollars. It was only half a million.

I very recently saw poorer special effects on a film which had a budget of more than ten times this amount. (The budget on that one was around $7 million, so roughly 14 times the budget that this film had.) There were some problems with the film, sure, but I expected much, much less of a film with less than a one million dollar budget.

They did a great job with what they had.

Even Stargate, a show I LOVE, and which has a much higher budget per episode than this entire movie cost, had a "dragon" recently that was nowhere near as good as this one.

If you want to critique a movie, compare apples to apples, not apples to diamonds. I'm sure if this film had a budget that was 200 to 300 times higher, it would have been considerably better, but they did a hell of a job with what they had.

This movie lacks just about everything as expected from a good movie, or even a decent one. To be nice: not very good acting, script, music or effects. The whole movie shrieks of "Hey, I got some money to spend… let's try and make a rip-off of Tolkien". One thing they copied directly from the footage of the Trilogy was the vast air shots showing the nature scenery and mountains, think I counted to five or six of those.

Alright, it's fantasy… but with a dragon looking like it's made with play-doh and dark elves looking like, I don't know what, I suggest you go see another movie or buy a good book by R.A Salvatore (at least you get to picture the monsters yourself and not seeing them like this).

To sum it up, a complete waste of time… and money!

If you're thinking of going into acting, watch this film. It will give you great confidence. Assuming the cast actually got paid for their performances (I use the word advisedly), there's hope for anyone who ever played Third Soldier in the school play. In fact, school plays were several cuts above the acting here. The cast wore a permanently bemused expression, as well they might given the awful "special effects" that looked like they were created on a Sinclair Spectrum. The fight scenes were laughable, where the heroes guarding the princess (I think she had a severe skin condition) swished away at thin air (you were supposed to think they were fighting the dragon). The dialogue was written by someone who has never conversed with human beings, and their epic journey about as dangerous as walking to the bus stop. Even if this was done by primary school kids with a camera phone (and it often looked like it), Dragon is tosh.