Product Description
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A London tunnelling project unearths a fire breathing creature
that burns the land and feeds on the ash. Quinn (Christian Bale)
and Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey) discover must put their
differences aside and work together if they are to defeat the
dragons to save the world.
From .co.uk
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Not quite the large-scale epic it promised to be, Reign of Fire
is still an enjoyable entry in the post-catastrophe genre. It
opens in present-day London with a boy witnessing the rebirth of
the race of dragons, who are supposed to have wiped out the
dinosaurs and now devastate the world again. Skipping the
collapse of society with a montage of magazine articles about the
world in flames, we jump into the future where the remnants of
humanity cower in enclaves and fire-breathing raggedy-winged
bat-lizards prowl the land. Christian Bale commands a castle in
Northumberland, trying to preserve humanity, while Matthew
McConaughey is an iron man warrior intent on tracking down and
destroying the dragon king, making for a hero-against-hero clash
of values which, for a change, finds the British preserver of
life, rather than the Yankee animal-killer, getting the girl and
the glory.
The film consists mostly of scrabbling about in the ruins, and it
rather skimps on the big dragon battles the script seems to
demand. There's little here that hasn't been done before in The
Day of the Triffids ( /gp/product/B0006GVKE8 ) on television or
that slew of Italian Mad Max ( /gp/product/B000WBZZ2A )
imitations of the early 1980s. But director Rob Bowman (The
X-Files ( /gp/product/B000X41AY8 )) and a good cast handle
themselves well, and the few times that the dragons do show up
they deliver an acceptable burst of fiery horror. --Kim Newman
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Synopsis
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In present-day London, 10 year-old Quinn visits his construction
engineer mother at her work. When he crawls into a cavern the
workers have uncovered, he finds a large, fire-breathing
dragon--which destroys the site and kills his mother.
Fast-forward to 2020. Quinn (Christian Bale, American Psycho) is
living in a castle in Northumberton, the leader of survivors of
the dragon plague which has wiped out a large portion of the
human population. He and his colony, including dozens of orphans,
eke out an existence in hopes that the human race will someday
take back the planet from the gigantic, winged monsters. Enter
Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), a war-mad American and his team of
trained fighters. They offer to team up with Quinn and
his people, but only if they consent to the American's extreme
tactics to destroy the fire-breathing beasts.Directed by Rob
Bowman (X Files), Reign of Fire combines elements of Aliens, The
Road Warrior and 1981's Dragonslayer for a potent genre cocktail
that takes a traditionally medieval monster into the future and
injects it into state-of-the-art action sequences. The film plays
as post-apocalyptic sci-fi, but the stunningly executed dragon
sequences are pure horror, especially as the menacing creatures
slaughter prominent characters with extreme speed and
ruthlessness.
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