Dragon

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.

A member of my family recently picked this up, and I watched it today.

Even though I'd been warned, before viewing this movie, that this was low standard, none of what I'd been told prepared me for just how poor this was. I've seen a number of low budget movies in my time, but this one has to be just about the worst one that I've yet come across.

The actors came across as being merely amateurs, many of the scenes were clumsily shot and as for plot there was barely any of it.

Despite early warning signs, I continued to watch the movie. As this is supposed to be an epic adventure production, I was sure that there would at least have to be some action worth seeing. However there wasn't even that!

The overall impression I had was that the film makers started this off with a few ideas in mind, but then abandoned most of these later.

A movie that I can only describe as being laughable at best.

I had seen a trailer of this film and just had to see it based on that. I knew from the trailer that this was no big money production with well known stars acting in it but have found quite the many jewels in smaller budget films in the past.

I was extremely disappointed -- especially so considering I was looking forward to the two future films to complete this trilogy. I can sit thru the worst films ever just to be doing but could not keep from drifting off during this one! The story line could and should be a pretty decent one but is overshadowed totally by unimaginative filming and special effects in the movie. Basically if you watch this film you will switch between the following scenes throughout the whole thing; 1)the cast walking in a single line v e r y slowly through the same woods 2) the cast stopped in the woods bickering with one another 3) one or two of the cast stopped in the woods having a vision or a dream (both located in the SAME woods and involving one or two of the other actors) 4) the cast stopped in the same woods fighting with the same dragon (NOT a very realistic one at that) and last but not least the scene you will see every five minutes throughout...a camera giving you a panoramic view of some unknown mountains that never change supplemented with crappy Celtic music.

As I said...VERY disappointed.

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!

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.