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NUMBERS
Box Office: $42,929,971
VHS Rentals: $8,930,000
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CONSENSUS
An enjoyable B-movie if you don't use your brain.
CAST & CREW
Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco
Directed by Rob Bowman
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SYNOPSIS
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. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, intense action violence
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jul 12, 2002
Video: Nov 19, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Touchstone Pictures
GENRE
Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Action, Monsters, Post-Apocalypse, Science Fiction, England, Dragons, Future/Futuristic Worlds
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Reign of Fire Site
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SOUNDTRACK REVIEWS
PARENTS EVALUATION
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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 "The dragons are the real stars of Reign of Fire and you won't be disappointed."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"Reign of Fire may be little more than another platter of reheated Aliens, but it's still pretty tasty."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
 "McConaughey's fun to watch, the dragons are okay, not much fire in the script."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"'Christian Bale’s Quinn [is] a leather clad grunge-pirate with a hairdo like Gandalf in a wind-tunnel and a simply astounding cor-blimey-luv-a-duck cockney accent.'"
-- Paul Arendt, TELETEXT (UK)
"The screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "Dungeons and Dragons" fantasy with modern military weaponry..."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"The two leads chomp considerably more scenery with their acting than fire-breathing monsters barbecue with their breath..."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"The narrative is so consistently unimaginative that probably the only way to have saved the film is with the aid of those wisecracking Mystery Science Theater 3000 guys."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Reign of Fire may well be the most grim dragon movie ever made -- and it's all the more effective for the filmmakers' decision to play it straight."
-- Matt Brunson, CREATIVE LOAFING
"Sweet gentle Jesus, did the screenwriters just do a cut-and-paste of every bad action-movie line in history?"
-- Catherine Cantieri, HOLECITY.COM
"It's hard not to like a film that has sky divers jumping out of helicopters to catch flying dragons in a big net."
-- Alec Cawthorne, BBCI FILMS
"I realized that no matter how fantastic Reign of Fire looked, its story was making no sense at all."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"When the fire burns out, we’ve only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that’s where the film ultimately fails."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"This is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action, cheese, ham and cheek (as well as a serious debt to The Road Warrior), but it feels like unrealized potential"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
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"Matthew McConaughey tries, and fails, to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"Reign of Fire looks as if it was made without much thought -- and is best watched that way."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Definitely in the guilty pleasure B-movie category, Reign of Fire is so incredibly inane that it is laughingly enjoyable."
-- Bob Bloom, JOURNAL AND COURIER (LAFAYETTE, IN)
"I have two words to say about Reign of Fire. Great dragons!"
-- Luanne Brown, CHICO ENTERPRISE-RECORD
"...perhaps the heaviest, most joyless movie ever made about giant dragons taking over the world."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"Smothered by its own solemnity."
-- Carlo Cavagna, ABOUTFILM.COM
"The process of figuring out the moment the movie re-imagines the Battle of the Bulge with a bare-chested guardsman and a pike is more than worth the price of admission."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"'All in all, Reign of Fire will be a good (successful) rental.'"
-- Cory Cheney, URBAN TULSA WEEKLY
"Draggin' about dragons"
-- Michael Clawson, WEST VALLEY VIEW
"Reign of Fire just might go down as one of the all-time great apocalypse movies."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
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ROTTEN 39%
Avg. Rating: 5/10 |
"This is the film that the American Godzilla could have been, but wasn't."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Falls neatly into the category of Good Stupid Fun."
-- Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE
"One regards Reign of Fire with awe. What a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Well-shot but badly written tale set in a future ravaged by dragons."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"A disaster of a drama, saved only by its winged assailants."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"Silly, loud and goofy."
-- Stephen Hunter, WASHINGTON POST
"With McConaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and Bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids, there's not enough intelligence, wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd."
-- Chris Jones, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Reign of Fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise, but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"The advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap. Any rock pile will do for a set. Reign of Fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Reign of Fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond Road Warrior, it owes enormous debts to Aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
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"Was it TOO MUCH TO ASK to have ONE tank blow up ONE dragon? What the hell?!"
-- Criminy Pete, CRIMINYPETE.COM
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