Highly Overrated But Still Good

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

DRAGON is an example of The Asylum doing what they're best known for, which is ripping off a Hollywood blockbuster purely to fool people into picking this DVD off the shelf by mistake. This one's a rip-off of ERAGON but turns out to be the usual fantasy junk, full of LORDS OF THE RINGS cliches and very little else. A group of badly acting and mannered characters roam around in the woods in a bid to dispel some dark lord or other, and they tend to wear old cast-offs with bits of chain mail and the like. Some are made up to be elves. There are some limited special effects but the CGI is so bad that they're underused, which is all for the good. As Asylum movies go, this is one of the worst and least entertaining of them all.

If you're thinking of going into acting, watch this film. It will give you great confidence. Assuming the cast actually got paid for their performances (I use the word advisedly), there's hope for anyone who ever played Third Soldier in the school play. In fact, school plays were several cuts above the acting here. The cast wore a permanently bemused expression, as well they might given the awful "special effects" that looked like they were created on a Sinclair Spectrum. The fight scenes were laughable, where the heroes guarding the princess (I think she had a severe skin condition) swished away at thin air (you were supposed to think they were fighting the dragon). The dialogue was written by someone who has never conversed with human beings, and their epic journey about as dangerous as walking to the bus stop. Even if this was done by primary school kids with a camera phone (and it often looked like it), Dragon is tosh.

There can be no dispute, this is an amazingly bad film. First off, it's badly written. I honestly don't think I have ever read, watched or heard a story more uninteresting than the story this film is based on. What few 'twists' there are- equally boring and confusing in places. The acting, plain bad. I understand that pretending to fight a monster that's going to be added in with special effects later may be a bit difficult, but surely they should look like there fighting in the same battle, rather than waving there weapons around seemingly at random. The choreography was terrible. And from start to finish, the whole film was simply a bunch of people hanging about, talking incessantly and occasionally getting into a fight. Remind you of Big Brother?

If you are 12 or like minded then you will not mind all the poor qualities attributed to this film. The fact it got produced is amazing and someone's faith saw it through. It gets a ten for believing in that faith, but no amount of faith can rescue this movie from the minds of men, and very few children. Women might have some empathy for the film, but such compassion should be directed to herself for sitting through the first five minutes. At least she will get a good laugh, but what little amusement there is will wain away as fast as the streaking dragon.This movie is a testament to how ego and faith can be so blind to reality.