Dragon Fighter
Dragon Fighter
| 04 January 2003 (USA)
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The movie begins in Southern England in the Middle Ages and then six knights are seen riding in horses towards a destroyed town. They see the remains of burned buildings and dead people until they come upon a mother and her dead baby. She quickly dies and then a rhino-sized dragon flies overhead, the knights follow right behind, vowing to kill the creature.

Reviews
Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
Siloty there are those movies that are bad they are funny, then there are those where you scream "i want that one and a half hours of my life back"...thats pretty much what this is.dean cain tries to be an actor but fails. the sfx are really bad (repeated scenes and rocks that look like falling paper) and the fake plastic guns that have torches taped on them...the split screen effect used to show multiple things happening at once is just terrible.this movie cant even be used as one of those simple night entertainers, its just that badif i could go negative ratings, i would
zeppo-2 Not quite, Dean, more one of those old creature features from the 1950's. This may be a totally predictable film but I found it quite enjoyable as a throw-back to the old square-jaw, thud & blunder movies of the past.Yes,the plot is the old 'trapped in a contained space where the hunters become the hunted' etc and perhaps all done by the numbers. But it's played straight and the cast do well, flashes of humour, the dialogue is OK and Dean Cain makes a reasonable action hero.It's fine for what it is, a dumb monster movie that passes the time and moves along without becoming too boring or outstaying it's welcome. The multi-split screen bits weren't as annoying as I first thought they would be. The CGI effects were pretty decent too, you can see from repeat shots of the dragon that both time and money was at a premium but it still looks quite effective.Not a classic of the horror/creature genre by any stretch of the imagination but as lightweight popcorn entertainment, I felt it did pretty much what it set out to do.
Fringe Ryder Okay, when you're watching a movie with dragons, you might not require complete believability. Some suspension of disbelief is alright. And even though most of the dragon scenes look like they came out of screen shots of Doom, I'm good with that; the dragon was reasonably believable. And I could accept the growth and apparent infinite capacity for flying and fire-breathing without food or fuel. And even the stunts and the basic premise, which was after all essentially Jurassic Park.But the character development of the humans... that just wasn't remotely realistic. You don't watch your friends die in front of your eyes and be making jokes two minutes later upon escaping, followed by more risks, more deaths and additional unlikely escapes and then ask for a date.If only they'd made the humans as believable as the dragon!
sarastro7 The first 45 minutes of Dragon Fighter are entirely acceptable and surprisingly watchable. The characters are believable and interesting. The cloning lab looks really high-tech. After that, it all collapses. The characters start behaving idiotically, and a new subplot is introduced from nowhere about a fusion reactor (and this is supposedly "present day") going critical, the only plot justification of which is that it is required to kill the dragon - only it doesn't. The finish is incredibly weak. One wonders what made a movie that started out so well turn so wrong.All the characters except Dean Cain are played by Russians. This results in some weird situations and details, like the character being played by Vessela Dimitrova being called "Bailey Kent" despite her heavy accent (and despite her, on one occasion, inexplicably switching to *Spanish*!).Because of the decent start, I considered rating this movie a 5, but it really was more disappointing than that, so I only give it 4.