Product Description

Matthew McConaughey (U-571) and Christian Bale (SHAFT) star in an explosive action-packed adventure with bone-charring special effects that will have you glued to your seat! When workers in a London tunneling project awaken an unearthly fire-breathing beast from centuries of slumber, all hell breaks loose. Twelve-year-old Quinn (Bale) sees his mother, one of the workers, die trying to escape this new terror. Twenty years later as a "fire chief," he tries to keep a group of refugees alive with fierce dragons dominating the air, burning the land and feeding on the ash. Unexpectedly, Van Zan (McConaughey), a hotshot American militia leader, shows up with a ragtag group of slayers on a perilous crusade to hunt down and destroy the beasts. Tempers flare when there is a struggle for leadership -- until both men realize only one species is getting out of this alive.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2846 in DVD
• Brand: BALE,CHRISTIAN
• Released on: 2002-11-19
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 102 minutes

Amazon.com
The Road Warrior meets Dragonslayer in the briskly entertaining post-apocalyptic action thriller Reign of Fire. Reign of Fire exists primarily to give us a bigger and better dragon than the Vermithrax Pejorative of 1981's classic Dragonslayer, and in that regard, the special effects are mightily impressive; the reptilian fire-breathers are stupendously convincing. While the earlier film offers a richer, more whimsical medieval adventure, Reign of Fire is a fast-moving tale of man versus dragon that takes place in the charred England of 2020, after Earth has been scorched by rapidly multiplying dragons and the aftermath of a futile nuclear counterstrike. Mixing high-tech gadgetry with primitive survivalism, X-Files alumnus Rob Bowman makes the most of his midlevel budget, establishing a lavish castle base for the rugged, adversarial teaming of Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey as dragonslayers on the brink of extinction. With a steady supply of crowd-pleasing highlights, Reign of Fire is a pyrotechnical treat. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Fire-breathing dragons menace postapocalyptic society in the director Rob Bowman's fantasy-adventure romp. The film stars a buff-beyond-belief Matthew McConaughey and the hunky Christian Bale, who participate in some spectacular lizard-slaying stunts. The sets and costumes recall the "Road Warrior" series, and Bowman shamelessly encourages a scenery-chewing hysteria in his leads. Mesmerizing junk. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

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The only thing that I have to said is that the DVD is in good condition and the delivery was fast.

2 stars for life-like special effects. Besides that there's nothing worth watching.
I give this movie 2 stars for its life-like special effects. Besides that there's nothing worth watching. Threre's nothing in the plot. The acting is so so. In short, there's nothing interesting here except the special effects.

There be dragons there
Battling dragons was a story told in legends of knights in the dark ages.
The old maps had at the edge of the known world:
"There be dragons there".
They actually found flying reptiles in the fossil record in the very far past.
Here a cave in a London underground excavation is uncovered: the sleeping dragons rise to bring down man.
The last hope of man seems to be a small band of dragon slayers.
Only one man knows where the original cave lair is, where the only male
makes his home.
Some need heroes, but others are born to it.
It is a fun movie that blends legend with adventure in an strange new future.