ada
the leading man is my tpye
Incannerax
What a waste of my time!!!
Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
a_jshurmon
I wish I could accurately express in words how much you should not watch this movie, but i cannot accurately express this in the English language. any words in any of the two languages i know would be insulting the language, no quiero hacer eso! the plot is stupid, the effects are crap, and if you think about it, the dragon is the hero(ine)! she's trying to protect herself from a group of maniacs armed with shotguns trying to mercilessly kill her, or worse probe her and turn her into a sort of science display gone wrong! the main characters are a lazy drunk, a crazy, dragon obsessed Nazi, a lady-Nazi, and the 2 characters that survive are a security captain, who doesn't have any guns, and a biologist who, completely and illogically has somehow logged 1,200, yes TWELVE HUNDRED flight hours with a helicopter, yet she also remarks that she's only landed ONCE. and the nail in the coffin for this movie is that in the credits for the film is that this is in memory of someone. whoever slapped that on there needs to be bludgeoned to death, as this movie is the worse way to remember someone. so yeah, if at all possible, avoid the movie like a plague, and if you have seen this movie already, warn others, so they can avoid losing 90 minutes of their lives to this piece.
Bezenby
Starring: Dean Cain out of Superman Someone gave me a loan of this a long time ago, and even though the cover kind of appealed to me, I've never really gotten round to watching it until last night. I completely regret doing so.Even beer couldn't save this effort, which involves Dean Cain from Superman obviously having a bit of bother trying to find his acting niche after that programme finished. I'm not really sure what he thought a film about a cloned dragon would do for his career, but it obvious from watching the film that Dean probably won't be appearing in any blockbusters any time soon.There's a terribly large of things wrong about Dragon Fighter, and although sometimes an accumulation of bad things can result in a film that is enjoyable, in the case of Dragon Fighter the plot inconsistencies, bad acting and weird direction just make things more frustrating. Worse still, the film lulls you in on the promise that something good MIGHT happen, and when things finally start to happen about forty-five minutes in, it's too late to bother switching the thing off.The film starts of in a kind of Xena fashion with a bunch of knights in 'Southern England' heading off to kick a dragon's a** after it has wiped out a village. After getting their own a**** kicked in pretty short order shortly after entering the dragon's layer, a barrel of gunpowder they brought with them explodes, sending thousands of CGI rocks everywhere, which of course buries the dragon in the cave.Jurrasic Park attack! Some idiot who gets his kicks from DNA has snaffled some dragon cells and is heading off to his underground and pointless lab to grow himself a dragon. His woeful CGI helicopter is flown by Dean Cain, who is joining the team for some reason and really starts to get on the prof's tits from the outset.Then it happens: for most of the boring dialogue parts we get split screen! So instead of one boring shot of someone talking we get about 6 at the one time! And they're not very good! Plus when a character appears (with the exception of the cannon fodder) we get stats on them for some reason. And do you know what all this means? F*** ALL. And why do they have a caption saying 'Helipad -day'? F*** KNOWS. The days aren't even numbered - I was messing around with the settings on my TV but it was the film...There's very little to describe by way of plot. I'll try and do it very quickly: cells-dna extraction-full dragon in three hours - plot of Alien and Aliens stolen - loads of characters killed - no gore - Dean, baddie and love interest survive - blow up lab - and then the only interesting thing happens - they all have some kind of chase sequence in the air with the CGI dragon chasing a CGI helicopter whilst being chased by Fighter jet. It stops being interesting pretty quickly though when you realise how badly constructed and stupid this scene is. FILM ENDS.Sounds good? Don't be a moron. There's nothing that may earn the film extra points. Film crap or unoriginal? Put gore in it. Film boring? Put some nudity in it. Don't put pointless split screen in it. This was a bad film with no potential whatsoever to ever be unearthed as a lost trash classic. It should, to be honest, just be forgotten.
tenshi127
When you wish for the dragon to eat every cast member, you know you're in for a bad ride.I went in with very, very low expectations, having read some of the other comments, and was not let down. Unlike some other cheap and failed movies, however, this one doesn't really remain hilariously (and unintentionally) funny throughout.-SPOILERS FOLLOW-First of all, plot it very inconsistent. Looking past the "small" mistakes, such as the dragon growing up in 3 hours, the whole idea it's based on is messed up. See, the movie wants us to believe that dragons came from outer space in the form of meteorites which really were dragon eggs. After explaining this, they show some peasant poking at one with his pitchfork and the dragon pops out. Later, the obligatory "crazy scientist" guy babbles on about how dragons outlived the dinosaurs. So apparently humans were around when dinosaurs were, or we just have a fine little plot hole here. The other major thing is that the lab is blown up with a force "half as strong" as what was used for Hiroshima. Then two guys later walk in to check everything out, and it's almost unscathed! There's even another dragon, which grew out of who knows what. All in all it's very predictable. As soon as the guy mentioned cloning, I guessed they'd clone a dragon. That means that our Mr. Smarty-pants security guy isn't so intuitive and smart as the movie would have you believe, if you ignore that I knew this film would be about, you know, dragons.Putting that aside, the second worst thing is the "special effects." Others have mentioned the fake rocks falling during the beginning, the CG helicopter, and the dragon. It looks a bit better than a blob, but it ruined whatever it had going for it when it trudged down the hall in the same manner time after time. To their credit, the flying dragons in the beginning looked OK from far away (although the one in the cave is probably the worst one in the whole movie.) These things are funny to watch, however. The scenes where a million different shots of the same person facing different ways are shown are not. Nor are the "introduction" screens with the vital stats.Coming to the actors, they weren't the greatest, but I guess at least they tried? They seemed more enthusiastic about what they were doing than many of the actors participating in the recent "BloodRayne," for example, and you've got to give them points for that. One thing I noticed though was that the woman who plays Meredith often had her face covered in make-up that was many tones lighter than the rest of her. She looked like she had a bad run-in with some white-face.The script is bad and cheesy. You don't really notice the music, but it's actually not too bad for the most part.The bottom line is don't watch it unless you want to see it because you hear it's bad (like I did), although the only funny things are the bad CG effects. Other than that, don't waste your time and money.
LeathermanCraig
OK.... I just have 3 words - cheesy, cheesy and CHEESY! The only redeeming feature of this movie is Dean Cain. Other than that - it's CHEESEBALL SUPREME!!!!The movie DOES have some promise in the concept - an underground lab creates a real live fire breathing dragon - basically giving us more of "Jurassic Park" meets "Reign of Fire"..... There are some great possibilities, but they just don't follow through.... The special effects are decent - even though you KNOW the dragon is CGI, it doesn't horribly LOOK like CGI....
I wouldn't lay the blame on Dean Cain (although he IS one of the producers), I'd lay more of the blame on Phillip Roth - the director and writer. It's HIS job to make this film.... and, unfortunately, he failed.