Dragonheart 3: La maledizione dello stregone

"Dragonheart 3: The Sourcerer's Curse" is a fun fantasy movie with brilliant action sequences and just enough story to keep most viewers entertained. The film is immediately better than its "A New Beginning" predecessor and is a decent sequel to the original, incorporating enough of the lore and original score to make any fan geek out for a moment.

The film starts out at a brilliant pace, but is held back by some really glossy character development towards the middle, but is ultimately redeemed by its final action set piece and good casting choices. It is not clear where the film takes place in the time-line, but it seems to take place decades or even a century or two before the first film on the series.

The ending sets up the now confirmed "Dragonheart 4" which will be a great film if Universal can continue and/or improve the the quality.

Most of the people giving this film a low rating have not even seen the film and are a disgrace to critics everywhere.

-Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (2015) movie review: -Dragonheart-ish 3: The Sorcerer's Curse is a prequel (I think) to the original cult-classic Dragonheart, whose legacy really died with Dragonheart 2…. Anyway, in this rip-off, we follow an unrealistically good looking squire who, after rejected from knight school, goes over Hadrian's Wall to find a meteor, only to discover a dragon inside. But when the male dragon's eggs are stolen by a sorcerer, he, the dragon, a random loser in a robe, and epic Merida from Brave must work together to stop the sorcerer from using the eggs to hatch dragons to attack the wall and free his people. Yup. I'm not done! One subplot includes Merida and the loser monk-ish guy wanting to help their own people beat the kinda evil knights at the wall to set their people free. So they want the same things as the villain. Who also makes the dragon useless through most of the film. This. This is why I said Dragonheart-ish.

-As you can tell, I did not like this film. It is okay though, Syfy will love it.

-The story is dumb. Aaaand it makes no sense. And it is inconsistent. And it doesn't tie into the other films. Also medieval knights at Hadrian's Wall. Fighting Woads and Druids. With a dragon. A medieval dragon. The writer failed history. Every history. Ever.

-The pace was not good, because nothing happens much. Also the dragon is barely in it.

-Ben Kingsley voices the dragon. Huh. I have no idea how they got an Oscar winning actor to do that. Also the rest of the cast barely tries.

-The characters are inconsistent, unmotivated, and unlikable. Even the dragon. Who doesn't use fire to beat his enemies. Instead he just flies around. And does nothing.

-The music was mostly lame. Some fun Celtic music played during a tense fight, which made it awkwardly funny. Also playing the original Dragonheart theme does NOT earn them points in a film this bad.

-The effects were just as good as the original! The only problem was that they did not update them in 30 years….

-Like everything in this is bad. From costumes to lack of blood or inconsistent everything. Video game quests and no driving force behind anything. Dragons are also aliens now? Whatever. Dragonheart-ish 3 is already on Netflix, but that doesn't matter, because Dragonheart-ish 3 is not worth seeing. Ever!

Hadrian's Wall was built by the Romans occupying Britain in the 2nd century. Its purpose was to keep the various tribes of Druids from crossing over into the area south of the wall. While the wall roughly parallels the present day border between England and Scotland it is completely in present day England, and towards its east end is as much as 68 miles south of Scotland.

This fictitious story is set in that time, and features Julian Morris as Gareth, a Squire who has been in training to become a Knight. There is a medium sized village nestled into the wall on the south side and one of the tasks of the Squires is to collect "tax money" from the residents, presumably for the protection afforded. But when Gareth came back "a bit light" in the coin sack, for taking pity on a potter whose business had turned down, Gareth was denied Knighthood.

So he escapes over the wall into Druid territory and witnesses a giant ball of fire from the sky, upon finding it the next day, and chiseling on it to see if he can extract some gold, the big rocky ball explodes and out comes a full grown dragon, which he names Drago (voiced by Ben Kingsley). Drago had also been carrying 9 dragon eggs for safety until they were ready to hatch. When Gareth is injured by an arrow Drago transfers some of his Dragon magic to Gareth, this goes to his heart, he has become a dragonheart.

In the process Gareth also encounters Druid warrior Tamzin Merchant as Rhonu, good with bow and arrow and also hand-to-hand fighting. Together they and Drago fight the good fight to overcome the bad Druids and also to break open the gate to the wall for passage to the south side.

It is all fantasy, the CI is good and overall the costuming and acting are good, for those who enjoy this type of fantasy story.

I had the first Dragonheart on video when I was young and I was crazy about the movie. Not just because of the cool Dragons, but the way how they made the relationship between human and Dragon seem so fun. You could experience everything with them and laugh at jokes. The effects for that time was amazing.

This franchise has the most amazing Soundtrack of all time. In the first two movies they made the scene where the song played, and what the Actors did, seem so special. So I fell in love with the movies.

But unfortunately not everything can be kept to a high standard and while I was watching the third movie last night, I was horrified by the poor standards of the scenes, the poor interaction between human and Dragon. Literally just ONE scene where there was a little humor. You almost never see the Dragon and the way he looked, compared to the previous films was terrible! They made him look more like a wild animal than a character with a purpose in the movie. It;s just humans humans humans.

It's so obvious to see where scenes have been cut and pasted, scenes that didn't really have a impact on the film enjoyed the longest camera action.

You guys had one job, you had two previous movies to help you make the movie better or at least keep the standard.

I'm very disappointed with the effort and the low standard of this movie, you really ruined this franchise for me.

I'll keep my faith in the first two great movies

Third film of the unnecessary Dragonheart franchise. I never saw the first film and am not quite sure what compelled me to record this off of the El Rey Network, but I did. The first sequel was better than I expected and I actually liked this third film just about as much. The story here is about involves another young person, a knight this time, befriending a dragon. The conflict involves the young knight helping the dragon protect a clutch of eggs from an evil sorcerer, as well as other plot lines involving Hadrian's Wall and barbarian hoards. Like the prior sequel 15 years earlier, this PG-13 film felt as if it were basically a kids movie, but with PG-13 levels of violence, rendering it not appropriate for the kiddies and left me wondering who was the target audience? Still, I did find myself entertained and never really bored, which is more than I can say for a lot of films.