Dragonheart 3: La maledizione dello stregone

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.

Granted, when I sat down in 2022 to watch the 2015 adventure fantasy movie "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" for the first time, I have to admit that I wasn't really expecting a whole lot from director Colin Teague. Yet, as I hadn't already seen the movie, of course I found the time to do so.

The storyline told in "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" was actually adequate enough. Sure, it wasn't a particularly outstanding adventure fantasy movie, but it was actually entertaining enough for what it turned out to be. And yeah, I was adequately entertained by the movie, no doubt about it.

However, the movie feels somewhat rushed and superficial, as the storyline never really takes times to let the audience delve deep into whatever is being pushed through the storyline at a rapid pace. On that account, then director Colin Teague was sort of delivering a halfhearted movie.

Visually then "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" wasn't an impressive movie. The special effects and CGI definitely worked as intended, but for a movie from 2015, then the CGI felt inferior. The movie, being a fantasy adventure and all, would definitely have benefitted a lot from having greater effects and greater CGI.

The cast ensemble in "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" was all unfamiliar faces for me, and that was actually a good thing. I enjoy watching new talents and faces in movies, especially since they aren't associated with other previous characters and movies. So that worked well for me. The only known perfomer here, for me at least, was the voice of Ben Kingsley, as the voice of Drago.

Sure, "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" can be watched and enjoyed for what it is, especially if you are a fan of the fantasy and adventure genre. But don't get your hopes up, because this is not an outstanding foray into the genre.

My rating of "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" lands on a five out of ten stars.

I should probably rate the movie with just one star because the plot is crap, the actors are like playing during their bath time (awful) and even the music feels out of place in many parts.

More in detail the plot is full of so many holes that we could open a golf course. I could play better in ANY movie ANY day than most of them, (except maybe a little from the female actor which had some shinny moments, the master druid and the master knight) and the music was like drunk people were playing and they were trying to keep up with the scenes but were too stoned to succeed.

The only reason that i 'm giving it 4 stars is because of the CGI, which are mesmerizing. The details in everything, well, fake are absolutely stunning. The problem was with the living parts of the movie... That's all. A totally destruction of the dragonheart story. Do not bother.

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

Dragonheart joins the rest of the plethora of movies that churn out a third movie to rake in the last few dollars before the idea is officially overdone and dead. This movie, like most franchises when they reach the third movie resembles that watered down concepts from the first movie. The first Dragon heart was fresh original and great. In these days for the movie to be great there has to be more than just fancy CGI.

This movie is let down my poor, lame acting. The characters all fulfilled their scripts.

It seems the directors had to highlight parts that are meant to be funny by adding a Irish jig to the soundtrack in some random places.

The bad guys are just plain evil for no reason than to be evil.

And the dragon.....come one peps this is meant to be focusing on the Dragon relationship with the lead character but instead he seems to pop in and out of the story like some lost little puppy. He seems tough and is willing to take lives at the start of the movie then he just flys around looking scary later on. The morals in this movie are a mess.

Ultimately now days there are better entertainment experiences with dragons to be had in games so I think I will stick to Skyrim.