Metacritic Film

Dragon Wars

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

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and creature action

Freestyle Releasing
Action  |  Drama  |  Fantasy
107 minutes | Color
South Korea / USA
Released In Theaters September 14, 2007

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)

DIRECTED BY
Hyung-rae Shim

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

33 / 100

Critic Reviews

63 TV Guide
Frankly, it's dumb, but no dumber than "Transformers."
50 Variety
A feast of A-grade f/x married to a Z-grade, irony-free script.
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.
40 The Hollywood Reporter
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.
38 Boston Globe
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.
30 LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
This one’s for connoisseurs of the “totally preposterous crap” school of fantasy cinema.
30 Los Angeles Times Robert Abele
Fluent in the laughable dialogue of a million bad fantasy flicks:
30 Austin Chronicle
This South Korean pseudo-epic is some of the most ambitious cr-- I've ever seen.
16 The Onion (A.V. Club)
All the thought seems to have gone into the marketing, and none into the unfathomably terrible script.

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