best movie i've ever seen.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Have you heard of the type of movies called "so bad it's good"? This movie is exactly that, minus the "it's good" bit.While the special effects, for a 2007 movie, are good, the writing is disgraceful. It is evidently lazy, the writer was clearly not committed to the movie. The CGI was fairly gorgeous, but the writing is so rushed and bad that it ruins the entire movie. It is so bad that at first, I thought it was produced by 'Asylum', but it wasn't. That bad.As well as this, the acting was poor. Overall, this movie is so ridiculous and rushed that you will probably lose a few IQ points and make an account just to review it. Do not waste your time, even if you want to see just how bad it is. That's what got me to write this. It's bad.

I'd heard once that the director of Dragon Wars made his film because he wanted to prove that Korea could produce a summer blockbuster on the same level as the Americans.That, unfortunately, is true. About the time the movie hits its halfway point, it becomes an all-out special effects bonanza that tries desperately to emulate the level of insanity and destruction that Michael Bay is known for.And if that's all you're coming for, I suppose it's not the worst thing in the world.But it's everything surrounding the ridiculous "war" scene that's the problem. This movie doesn't have a plot so much as it has a collection of loosely-connected scenes buffered by multiple and repeated dream sequences. Can't understand what's going on? That's fine, it's probably just another dream sequence. Still can't understand what's going on? Well, welcome to Dragon Wars.It's best to just not question it and go with the flow, because the movie isn't going to make any effort to help you understand why any given thing is happening. Given that the movie is apparently based on an ancient Korean legend, perhaps it's just something lost in translation, but if that's the case, there's still no excuse for making it so incomprehensible. Characters come and go without any explanation as to who they were or why they were relevant, and random things just seem to happen that are hand waved away as "Oh, I guess that was just magic."I've somehow ended up seeing this movie three times now, and only by reading the plot synopsis by people on the internet (who are likely familiar with the original legend) did any of it begin to make any sense whatsoever.At the very least, you could consider this to be a poor adaptation of whatever Korean legend it is technically based upon. But you can't pretend it's a good movie. Not in any way shape or form.

I have watched this film a few times over the years with my wife and we both think these low ratings are not justified. First it is a Korean made film with great special effects with a smaller budget then most films made by united states film companies. It was a film that captured a lot of different emotions and kept our attention all the way to the end. It had a good cast including a good performance by Jason Behr. I would not let these low reviews stop you from seeing this movie. This is a movie I own on bluray and plan on watching again. I gave it a rating of 10 only because it deserves a much higher rating then a lot of viewers gave it. So give this movie a try especially if you like mystical or fantasy type movies.

A lame and pointless CGI fest in which the entire budget is spent on huge, hulking and elaborate city-wide battle sequences of monsters versus the army in scenes that feel inspired by TRANSFORMERS. The opening storyline, which gets entirely forgotten about around the half hour mark, is absolutely cringe-worthy, along the lines of something equally ridiculous and kid-friendly like DRAGONBALL EVOLUTION.The acting is even worse: this is a South Korean production, made in collaboration with Hollywood so that we get a load of young and inexperienced American actors popping up in central roles. It goes without saying that they're horrible, although eagle-eyed viewers may notice a slumming Robert Forster (JACKIE BROWN) turning up in one of those world-weary mentor type roles.Meanwhile, I do have to admit that the CGI is impressive. Those massed pitched battles are carried out with gusto and a maximum of destruction, and the creatures on show put to shame the kinds of low-budget CGI monstrosities that prop up many a television movie. But, in the end, without a decent storyline to support them, who cares about the quality of the effects on show? DRAGON WARS might as well be a cartoon for all it's worth, and any viewers over the age of five are going to find it lacking.