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Reign Of Fire - BLU-RAY Version (2002)

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Average rating: 62%
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Starring: Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, David Kennedy, Gerard Butler, Alexander Siddig
Director: Rob Bowman
Studio: WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 98 mins
Certificate: 12
Collections: Blu-ray
Genres: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Languages: English
Released: 06/08/2007
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Brief synopsis of Reign Of Fire - BLU-RAY Version

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 military 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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Rated - 3 starsExplosive!

A customer from Salford , 07/11/2007

Finally, a film with an original script! A reasonable ensemble of a cast (Gerard Butler of 300 makes a cameo!) as well. The film itself was entertaining but on BluRay, the effects were just awesome. One film that definitely benefitted from going high def!

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Rated - 3 starsLit my fire.

Treadstone from London [Highly rated reviewer] , 26/02/2008

Bordering on B grade movie, Reign of Fire is an entertaining take on an apocalyptic humans- being-wiped-out by dragons flick. Think '28 days later' except with dragons instead of zombies. A good performance by Christian Bale and a rather deranged Matthew McConaughey possibly kept this movie from being rather sh*te.

I'd recommend if you need to add to your list, far from brilliant but entertaining, dragon style. Eregon this is most definitely not...the dragons innihilate humans as opposed to be ridden by some nancy boy.

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Rated - 3 starsCOULD HAVE BEEN HOTTER

denny91 from Denny [Highly rated reviewer] , 05/04/2008

Good film that could have been oh so much better.

watchable but more in line with kids / teenagers and will entertain them.

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Rated - 3 starsNot bad, but not great either

A customer from Derby , 29/05/2008

Conceptually the film was good but lacked fluidity. In places visually stunning in others seemed quite cheap. Overall, not a bad film but certainly not Bale at his best.

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Rated - 3 starsExplosive!

A customer from Salford , 07/11/2007

Finally, a film with an original script! A reasonable ensemble of a cast (Gerard Butler of 300 makes a cameo!) as well. The film itself was entertaining but on BluRay, the effects were just awesome. One film that definitely benefitted from going high def!

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Rated - 3 starsCOULD HAVE BEEN HOTTER

denny91 from Denny [Highly rated reviewer] , 05/04/2008

Good film that could have been oh so much better.

watchable but more in line with kids / teenagers and will entertain them.

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