Reign of Fire (UMD Mini For PSP)

Starring:Christian Bale, Matthew Mcconaughey
Studio: Touchstone
Product Type: DVD

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The Road Warrior meets Dragonslayer in the briskly entertaining post-apocalyptic action thriller Reign of Fire. Reign of Fire exists primarily to give us a bigger and better dragon than the Vermithrax Pejorative of 1981's classic Dragonslayer, and in that regard, the special effects are mightily impressive; the reptilian fire-breathers are stupendously convincing. While the earlier film offers a richer, more whimsical medieval adventure, Reign of Fire is a fast-moving tale of man versus dragon that takes place in the charred England of 2020, after Earth has been scorched by rapidly multiplying dragons and the aftermath of a futile nuclear counterstrike. Mixing high-tech gadgetry with primitive survivalism, X-Files alumnus Rob Bowman makes the most of his midlevel budget, establishing a lavish castle base for the rugged, adversarial teaming of Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey as dragonslayers on the brink of extinction. With a steady supply of crowd-pleasing highlights, Reign of Fire is a pyrotechnical treat. --Jeff Shannon

Average customer rating:

Ok movie but I was Dissapointed

a b-movie, but not a classic b.

I got this yesterday

The sweetest movie ever!!!!

I'm with the previous reviewer

Reign of Fire
Starring: Christian Bale , Matthew McConaughey , Izabella Scorupco , Gerard Butler , and Scott Moutter
Director: Rob Bowman
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
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The Road Warrior meets Dragonslayer in the briskly entertaining post-apocalyptic action thriller Reign of Fire. Reign of Fire exists primarily to give us a bigger and better dragon than the Vermithrax Pejorative of 1981's classic Dragonslayer, and in that regard, the special effects are mightily impressive; the reptilian fire-breathers are stupendously convincing. While the earlier film offers a richer, more whimsical medieval adventure, Reign of Fire is a fast-moving tale of man versus dragon that takes place in the charred England of 2020, after Earth has been scorched by rapidly multiplying dragons and the aftermath of a futile nuclear counterstrike. Mixing high-tech gadgetry with primitive survivalism, X-Files alumnus Rob Bowman makes the most of his midlevel budget, establishing a lavish castle base for the rugged, adversarial teaming of Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey as dragonslayers on the brink of extinction. With a steady supply of crowd-pleasing highlights, Reign of Fire is a pyrotechnical treat. --Jeff Shannon

Description

Matthew McConaughey (U-571) and Christian Bale (SHAFT) star in an explosive action-packed adventure with bone-charring special effects that will have you glued to your seat! When workers in a London tunneling project awaken an unearthly fire-breathing beast from centuries of slumber, all hell breaks loose. Twelve-year-old Quinn (Bale) sees his mother, one of the workers, die trying to escape this new terror. Twenty years later as a "fire chief," he tries to keep a group of refugees alive with fierce dragons dominating the air, burning the land and feeding on the ash. Unexpectedly, Van Zan (McConaughey), a hotshot American militia leader, shows up with a ragtag group of slayers on a perilous crusade to hunt down and destroy the beasts. Tempers flare when there is a struggle for leadership -- until both men realize only one species is getting out of this alive.

Customer Reviews:

Ok movie but I was Dissapointed.......2007-06-30

Ok as a typical monster type movie. Effects were great!
I was disappointed in the story line. After viewing all of the trailers, I expected there to be a lot more about the dragons.
I was really looking forward to the sections of the movie where they discover more about the dragons, like their biology, how long have they been around, more science stuff. But it didn't really come.
What you got was a narrator who just dumped all of the interesting facts on you, just to transition you to the end section where they could have the final conflicts.
I enjoy the discovery, where certain characters investigate and after a lot of work they find that final piece of the puzzle that helps them in the end. The process of discovery, picking up on small details that allow your imagination to piece together and fill in the full story. Not just a quick info dump, skip all of the cool stuff, and jump back into the action.
Not that action is bad, in fact I like it best when they intersperse the action scenes with the investigation and discovery scenes.
So I guess it's an Ok Monster Movie, but not great Si-Fi!

a b-movie, but not a classic b........2007-06-27

Bale and Scorupco must have died a thousand deaths delivering the movie's last lines. I got goosebumps in sympathetic mortification for the actors. Seriously cringe-worthy.

But I didn't expect the movie to turn out quite so bad, at least not from its beginning. Actually, it starts pretty well -- our hero as a boy opening up a Pandora's box of dragons and then his grown-up voice-over (though oddly his accent changed) sequence narrating the disaster that ensued. Standard stuff for post-apocalyptic sci-fi but I kinda like that and that part is edited with some momentum. And there are a few nice moments, notably a very endearing pop culture movie re-enactment, a few droll lines, and some fun popcorn-crunching here and there. It's not all bad. But what with a script that forces its actors to do too much awkward exposition, a hilarious over-the-top militaristic score that begs for the A-Team and Saturday afternoon tv, grammatical errors in the set props, and an actor (McConnaughey) who alternately grunts/preaches/cries and whom you just can't quite believe knows the meaning of 'epidemiology' as he utters it, plus that mortifying ending... holy cow, batman, it does get bad.

But not so bad that it should go cult. The badness here is not a heroic, epic, capital-B bad. Just amateurish.

I got this yesterday.......2007-06-22

I don't know what this about but Matthew Mcconaughey and Christian Bale are in London fighting a dragon that has been asleep for 20 years.

The sweetest movie ever!!!!.......2007-06-12

"Reign Of Fire"

Christian Bale stars as Quinn Abercromby, a protector and a father of many people in a dragon infested world. In his childhood (staring Ben Thorton) he witnessed the scene of a fire breathing dragon brake out from under London after a millennia of sleep. It killed his engineer mother Karen (Alice Krige). Soon the world was filled with dragons, they burned everything destroyable that they could find in order to consume the ashes. Civilization was shortened to few families and few groups of people clinging to survival. Twenty years later, it is protector and father Quinn's job to keep his community alive and safe, by scaring the dragons off and leading his community to survival.

Into this desperate community comes an American named Denton Van Zan (staring Matthew McConaughey). With his team of so-called dragon specialists, they hunt down and destroy dragons. Although the work is extremely dangerous, and the survival rate of his group is very low. Using skydivers to bait the dragon into nets, the skydivers' survival rate is 17 seconds. Denton supplies them with a lot of military firepower. He demonstrates that the dragons are not supernatural creatures but living beasts that can be destroyed. However there are so many dragons all over the world that they need a better plan if they are all the species. In the end only one of the two species can survive.

Reign of Fire has an interesting story to it. The dragon effects are amazing, such as the part when the male dragon attacks the castle. But the dragons don't appear as often as I would like them to but at least they did appear. It would have been nice to see some of the destruction of civilizations rather than hear about it. They say the dragons destroy everything to consume the ash but are constantly eating living humans instead. One thing I don't get is why they don't explain how the male dragon survives under London for a millennia. Quinn's community seems so unprepared that it is hard to believe they have lasted this long. The only character that you can really remember is Denton Van Zan. Most of the other characters seem to just be there as dragon distraction. That being said, the great effects and amazing dragons go a long way in this movie, and fans of the genre will find it worth watching.

I loved this movie it is my favorite movie of all time. I have watched this movie over and over again many many times. I love the fantasy the author of this story put into it. It is an amazing story. This story has a good flow and has so many cool characters that have weird personalities, like Denton Van Zan.

I recommend this movie to anyone who loves fantasies or movies with action in it. I especially recommend this movie to dragon lovers; this movie put a perfect picture of what a dragon may look like if it really existed.

-Alexander Misterman

I'm with the previous reviewer.......2007-05-01

Okay, it's got great visuals; in fact, they should have had MORE HELICOPTERS and just called this Dragons Versus Helicopters, and done without the plot altogether. Because the plot is...sad to stay...stupid. And when I use that word, I don't mean just a little bit stupid, but way, way stupid. Gosh, it sure was lucky for humanity that there was only the ONE male dragon, and that the females were sort of hive support for it. Just...why did it take through the downfall of the entirely of world civilization to find this out? And why was he so easy to kill once we'd found him? And on and on.

So okay, if you're going to spend that much money on the special effects, why not blow a few more bucks on the scriptwriters and not second guess them? This is a movie to watch, for sure, but...with the sound OFF.

Average customer rating:

Awesome Movie
Reign of Garbage!
Flame Retardant
IT'S NOT SO HOT...

Reign of Fire [Blu-ray]
Starring: Christian Bale , and Matthew McConaughey
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
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Binding: Blu-ray

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Description

Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale battle terrifying beasts -- and each other -- in REIGN OF FIRE on Blu-ray Disc(R). Packed with action, this thrilling adventure is hotter than ever in this explosive new format! All hell breaks loose when an unearthly creature is awakened after centuries of slumber. Twenty years later, "fire chief" Quinn (Bale) tries to keep a group of refugees alive with ferocious dragons dominating the air and burning the land. But tempers also flare when Quinn clashes with a hotshot American militia leader (McConaughey). Gasp at the bone-charring special effects in spectacular 1080p and cower as fire-breathing dragons roar in thunderous 5.1 48 kHz, 16-bit uncompressed audio. Feel the heat with Blu-ray(TM) High Definition!

Customer Reviews:

Awesome Movie.......2007-03-25

This movie is really great. The dragons are the best since vermithrax in Dragonslyer. Dragons are meant to be mean not friendly and these sure portrayed mean!! I was dissapointed in the way this film was recieved and it's box office take. I think Bowman did a great job.

Reign of Garbage!.......2007-01-31

This was a bad movie made worse by the fact that I was actually excited about it before it came out. I'm a big fan of dragons and the ones shown in the "behind the scenes" show that preceeded the movies release really had me looking forward to seeing it. Seeing this in the theater was like a kick in the teeth with a steel toed boot - although the dragons DID look good, the story was terrible (both in its concept and presentation) and the acting was, by far, the worst I've seen out of professional actors in a movie that was not made for TV. I watched the whole movie with a glimmer of hope, which was definitely extinguished when the credits started rolling by. This is now how I refer to any movie that I think is terrible (i.e. - "That's almost as bad as 'Reign of Fire'!). If you're expecting crap and only want some mindless action to play in the background, it might be passable, but if you have any expectations beyone total [explative], then avoid this atrocity like the plague. As for seeing it in 1080i - a piece of trash in any resolution is still trash!

Flame Retardant.......2006-12-31

Above average film starring Christian Bale and Mathew B. High def is gorgeous and you can't go wrong renting this flick, or blind buying it if you never saw it.

IT'S NOT SO HOT..........2006-12-25

Reign of Fire is a film that got off to a great start and immediately fizzled thereafter. The film quite simply is about a dormant race of dragons who are awakened from their underground slumber and lay waste to the earth. Mankind is reduced to living hand to mouth in medieval like enclaves.

The film's opening scene was quite promising. A young English boy, Quinn, visits his mother who works underground in the mines. The miners discover a mysterious, hidden shaft. There, they awaken a sleeping, fire breathing dragon, who immediately makes mince meat of those around it. Quinn and his mother try to escape, but only Quinn makes it, sheltered by his mother's body, as she makes the ultimate sacrifice.

Twenty years later, the earth is a desolate wasteland. The dragons have propagated, and the skies are filled with their alien presence. Clusters of surviving humans lead a medieval, hardscrabble existence, huddled against these fire breathing monsters that prey upon them. Quinn (Christian Bale) heads such a group.

One day, out of the blue, a group of Americans led by Denton Van Zan (a buffed up, gravelly voiced Matthew McConaughey) arrive at Quinn's enclave. There is a clash of wills and some animosity between the two groups, but ultimately Quinn and Van Zan join forces to try and change the course of history and save mankind in the process.

Quite frankly, the movie is dull and laughable, with plot holes, bad acting, and ham handed direction. While there are some interesting special effects, this alone does not make a movie. Though ambitious, the film simply tanks, lacking the underpinnings of a good script to sustain it as it lumbers to its grand finale, breathing its last to the viewer's thankful relief.

Average customer rating:

Ok movie but I was Dissapointed
a b-movie, but not a classic b.
I got this yesterday
The sweetest movie ever!!!!
I'm with the previous reviewer

Reign of Fire (UMD Mini For PSP)
Starring: Christian Bale , Alice Krige , David Kennedy , Izabella Scorupco , and Matthew McConaughey
Director: Rob Bowman
Manufacturer: Touchstone
ProductGroup: DVD
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Product Description

Reign of Fire UMD Movie From Buena Vista

Customer Reviews:

Ok movie but I was Dissapointed.......2007-06-30

a b-movie, but not a classic b........2007-06-27

I got this yesterday.......2007-06-22

I don't know what this about but Matthew Mcconaughey and Christian Bale are in London fighting a dragon that has been asleep for 20 years.

The sweetest movie ever!!!!.......2007-06-12

I'm with the previous reviewer.......2007-05-01

Average customer rating:

Ok movie but I was Dissapointed
a b-movie, but not a classic b.
I got this yesterday
The sweetest movie ever!!!!
I'm with the previous reviewer

Reign of Fire [Region 2]
Starring: Christian Bale , Matthew McConaughey , Izabella Scorupco , Gerard Butler , and Scott Moutter
Director: Rob Bowman
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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