| 50 |
New York Daily News
The special effects work fine for minor acts of magic, but the climactic aerial dragon fight is lame, and most of the performances are at the level of high school plays.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Much of the dialogue is the silliest sort of fantasy mush, and a good deal of the picture appears to have been shot while the lighting guys were out to lunch.
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| 50 |
Boston Globe
Loren King
A mildly entertaining but tepid extravaganza more suited to television than the big screen.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
A splashy, silly movie that inexplicably stars Jeremy Irons but will delight 10-year-old boys across the realm. Regrettably, the hordes of pre-adolescent boys it would have delighted most were that age 20 years ago.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Malty brew of heroics and minutiae.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Jeremy Irons, giving what is, hands down, the worst performance of his career.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Dungeons & Dragons looks like they threw away the game and photographed the box it came in.
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| 30 |
Mr. Showbiz
Gamer geeks, I speak your language! And I warn you: Flee! Or, at the very least, crank down any expectations you harbor -- a few notches below "zero" should do it -- before buying a ticket.
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| 25 |
Chicago Tribune
The sad truth is, I can say nothing to recommend this film.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
The audience has already checked out, long before the formulaic finish.
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| 25 |
USA Today
Worst of all, Marlon Wayans' performance as a cowardly thief would have seemed in bad taste a half-century ago.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
The plot is as thin and confusing as it sounds.
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| 20 |
Los Angeles Times
Whalin is awful, Birch is saddled with lines that would make a silent film star blanch and Irons devours huge chunks of scenery with the ferocity of one of those dog-fighting dragons.
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| 20 |
Film.com
Good intentions, bad writing.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Stinketh like the breath of a dyspeptic dragon.
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| 10 |
LA Weekly
A cheap "Star Wars" rip-off with swords instead of light sabers.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
This fantasy crap, fake-o effects and all, betrays princes of dice, masters of graph and wielders of bong.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
Take this as a warning: it's not much fun.
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| 10 |
Film.com
Horribly slapdash affair.
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| 10 |
Chicago Reader
The plot somehow manages to be both hackneyed and convoluted.
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| 10 |
Variety
Stunningly bad sci-fi/fantasy hokum.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Maybe I should let a role of the dice determine whether I use a cudgel or a broadsword to put this puppy out of its misery.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
This dragon, sadly, is DOA.
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| 0 |
New York Post
Tacky-looking, incoherent, badly acted and hopelessly directed disaster is easily the dullest adventure film of 2000.
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| 0 |
Village Voice
At once laboriously expository and defiantly incomprehensible.
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