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Dragon Wars
Freestyle Releasing

Dragon Wars reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 33 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.0 out of 10
based on 9 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and creature action

Starring Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, Aimee Garcia, Craig Robinson, Chris Mulkey, and Elizabeth Peña

A beautiful young woman possesses the power to transform a legendary giant serpent into an almighty dragon that can only ascend into heaven with the woman's ultimate sacrifice. But the forces of darkness are out to claim the young woman as their own while her reincarnated lover and his aged mentor stand in their way. (Freestyle Releasing)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Drama  |  Fantasy  
DIRECTED BY: Hyung-rae Shim  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: January 8, 2008 
Theatrical: September 14, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 107 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: South Korea / USA 
LANGUAGE(S): English / Korean 

Alternative Title: Dragon Wars

What The Critics Said

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63
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Frankly, it's dumb, but no dumber than "Transformers."
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50
Variety Derek Elley
A feast of A-grade f/x married to a Z-grade, irony-free script.
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50
The New York Times Andy Webster
It is such a breathless, delirious stew, it’s impossible not to be entertained, provided -- this is crucial -- you have a sense of humor.
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40
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
While the CGI effects are undeniably impressive, the laughable story line, risible dialogue and cheap humor (most of it involving a hapless zoo security guard) seriously detract from the fun.
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38
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
You don't have to hand the folks behind Dragon Wars much (the acting, directing, costumes, editing, props, music, etc: They're all off). But when they decide to sic that giant snake and those prehistoric dino-birds on downtown Los Angeles, the movie turns shockingly watchable.
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30
LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
This one’s for connoisseurs of the “totally preposterous crap” school of fantasy cinema.
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30
Los Angeles Times Robert Abele
Fluent in the laughable dialogue of a million bad fantasy flicks:
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30
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
This South Korean pseudo-epic is some of the most ambitious cr-- I've ever seen.
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16
The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
All the thought seems to have gone into the marketing, and none into the unfathomably terrible script.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 3.0 (out of 10) based on 86 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Richard J gave it a0:
Horrible. Incomprehensible. Shoddy. It is extremely rare for me to not like at least a small part of any movie, but this one had no redeeming features whatsoever. Another reviewer said "If you want to share some unforgettable memories with your children, this will be an excellent choice." Absolutely true - any future rubbish movie you see with your children can be accompanied by "hey, at least it wasn't as bad as Dragon Wars." Pretty much all the actors (I use that term extremely loosely) seemed to have no idea what was going on, both in the movie, and in their own private lives that meant they were forced to accept a role in this film. The special effects were the best part of Dragon Wars, and even then they would not have looked out of place in an episode of Buck Rogers. Seriously. I literally have absolutely no idea what the point of this movie was. It made no sense whatsoever, and there was absolutely no attempt to get the audience to either like the good guys or hate the baddies. Whoever they were. Which, ultimately, means that pretty much everyone who watches this will hate pretty much everything about it.

James L gave it a3:
The film was bad, i'm not gonna lie, but the visuals and action sequences were entertaining. The plot and acting are awful. As for the person who commented on how Korea should stick to making LGs and Kia's, this movie is not a fair representation of Korean cinema as there are many brilliant Korean films like Oldboy, 3-Iron, and The Host to name a few. Nevertheless, I had a good time laughing at the dialogue.

Jerry T. gave it a10:
This film seriously is the best film ive ever seen try watching it upside down and with a lollypop on your nose you will probably look more sane than this movie ever will

Tom H. gave it a1:
This was actually the worst films i have evr seen. It was dull, it had a shocking ending, the cgi wasnt too great and it was a waste of £10!

Cajun C. gave it a1:
It's like watching a power rangers the movie.. it's totally boring and so fake!!

Vernel N. gave it a1:
This movie Sucked. The plot was worthless and dumb. The cg was good, but didn't help much.

John L. gave it a0:
WOW I knew it was going to be bad but usually when you expect the worst from a movie it tends to be better than you've heard...theres a reason the critic scores are nearly as bad as the users..this movie was AWFUL!!!!! after 10 minutes i watched it in fast forward just to get my rental moneys worth, I've never done that before so that should give you an idea of how bad this really was..Korea should stick to making kias and lg products, not feature films .

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