Reign of Fire (2002)
3/10
It all went up in smoke
2 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers
If this wasn't one of the worst all time movies in the Sci-Fi genre, please tell me what was worse so I don't waste anymore time. First, the acting...what acting? Bale, doing his Walesian lisp again, was boring. (I saw American Psycho. I know he has distinct elocution when he tries.) McConaughey was obviously told to "look crazy" and he accomplishes that. The rest of the cast dutifully always look to their lords and masters for clues to what they should be thinking, for thinking seems to have burned out also. I won't go into all the plot's nonsense ideas except to say that had I seen this movie in a theatre, they might have carried me out laughing so hard that my eyes would have glazed over like McConaughey. The hapless people of the Planet Earth have been trying for decades to defend themselves from the (female) dragons. No luck. They even tried Atom bombs, which only wiped out the cities (as I said, thinking is no longer de rigeur.) They wiped out the cities but the dragons just kept belching fire, like EverReady Bunnies. So how are Christian and Andrew going to defeat the wily male dragon? With a tiny rocket attached to a crossbow! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Sorry I just can't stop laughing. Did they have rescue stations at the theatres to assist people who passed out from hilarity? One star for Chriatian's lisp. One Star from Andrew's biceps. And one star for Best Dragon in a humorous role.
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