Michael Ledo
During the reign of Henry I, southern England had a fire breathing dragon issue which they managed to kill by trapping it in a cave. Now in present day California in a top secret underground facility (filmed in Bulgaria) scientist plan on bringing the species back to life from its DNA. Capt. David Carver (Dean Cain) is the helicopter pilot and in charge of security. He wasn't told what the mission was about, although he figured it out himself. As the person in charge of security he has no weapon, don't know where they are, and has no idea about the plans of the facility and is called, "a guest." He spends most of his time bird dogging Dr. Meredith Winter (Kristine Byers) because all the best dragon stories are love stories.The film seemed like it was made for kids to watch on Saturday morning, except they toss in the F-word as an easy way to get an adult rating, because kids prefer to watch adult rated films more than kid rated films. The acting and script was bad. I watched this film as part of a sci-fi 12 pack.
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!
cujo2
I like B movies and seeing the guy on the front of the cover that used to play superman and the UFO films logo had warned me not to keep my hopes up. As an extra twist they made the dragon on the DVD box appear as the DRAGO dragon from dragon heart, what a ripoff.Anyway, warned that this was gonna be a B movie I braced myself for a laugh or 2 and an entertaining view and yes all the elements were there. Bad FX all around, crappy storyline and uninteresting characters. I can all live with that but this flick took itself way too serious. So after some 90 ish minutes I watched most of it on fast forward and was served a cool little..big , no little whoops bigger dragon ( the volume shifting was a pain, dragon itself was reasonable.) The 24 thing with the split screens to hide uninteresting padding dialogue wasn't any help either.When you rent a UFO films made product you know you are gonna watch a B movie, so production values aren't important. However an interesting story, an interesting hero and love for the product is very important. This is an uninteresting crap film that has been made for pocket change with no love for the genre whatsoever. Not worth a watch.
LeathermanCraig
OK.... I just have 3 words - cheesy, cheesy and CHEESY! The only redeeming feature of this movie is Dean Cain. Other than that - it's CHEESEBALL SUPREME!!!!The movie DOES have some promise in the concept - an underground lab creates a real live fire breathing dragon - basically giving us more of "Jurassic Park" meets "Reign of Fire"..... There are some great possibilities, but they just don't follow through.... The special effects are decent - even though you KNOW the dragon is CGI, it doesn't horribly LOOK like CGI....
I wouldn't lay the blame on Dean Cain (although he IS one of the producers), I'd lay more of the blame on Phillip Roth - the director and writer. It's HIS job to make this film.... and, unfortunately, he failed.
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