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Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), French, Dubbed, Spanish, Subtitled
Starring Matthew McConaughey (U-571) and Christian Bale (Shaft), this explosive, action-packed adventure with bone-charring special effects will have you glued to your seat! When a London tunneling project uncovers 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.
"A thrill-a-minute!" Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Loads of fun!" The New York Times
"Thumbs up!" Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
"...surprisingly entertaining." Alec Cawthorne, BBCi
"A triumph of special effects!" New York Post
Editor's Note
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. Fast-forward to 2020. Quinn (Christian Bale, AMERICAN PSYCHO) is living in a castle in Northumberton, the leader of survivors of the dragon plague which has wiped out a large portion of the human population. He and his colony, including dozens of orphans, eke out an existence in hopes that the human race will someday take back the planet from the gigantic, winged monsters. Enter Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey), a war-mad American and his team of military trained fighters. They offer to team up with Quinn and his people, but only if they consent to the American's extreme tactics to destroy the fire-breathing beasts. Directed by Rob Bowman (X FILES), REIGN OF FIRE combines elements of ALIENS, THE ROAD WARRIOR, and 1981's DRAGONSLAYER for a potent genre cocktail that takes a traditionally medieval monster into the future and injects it into state-of-the-art action sequences. The film plays as post-apocalyptic sci-fi, but the stunningly executed dragon sequences are pure horror, especially as the menacing creatures slaughter prominent characters with extreme speed and ruthlessness.
| Features | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs | | Audio: English DTS 5.1 & Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround | | Sci-Fi Featurette "Breathing Life Into The Terror" | | Pyrotechnics Featurete "If You Can't Stand The Heat" | | Conversations With Director Rob Bowman |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 1/25/2005 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 27206 | | UPC: 00786936191417 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...With enormous wingspans and nasty, lizard-like bodies, able to incinerate large areas and swallow humans in a single tasty gulp, the dragons are creatures of a certain creepy elegance as well as undeniable potency..." 07/12/2002 p.C6New York Times
"...It has a jamming B-picture buzz -- the kind of swift filmmaking and high spirits that have been missing from movies for a while..." 07/12/2002 p.E17 Entertainment Weekly
"...A rip-roaring videogame-busy, Mad Maximum entertainment....The story is enlivened by a throwaway good humor rare as dragon's eggs..." 07/26/2002 p.45 Box Office
"...A seamless merging of high concept and technology that dwarfs all previous pretenders....[With] Oscar-caliber visual effects and art direction..." 09/01/2002 p.156 |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Cinematography |  2.5 | | Plot | 2.5 | | Acting | 2.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 2.5 |
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0 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
1 of 5 It's a bad, bad, bad, bad movie Thursday, July 03, 2003
Joe from Quincy, MA
I went into this movie expecting a seemingly bad plot, but had my hopes high for some mindless action, but even those hopes were dashed. There's nothing I can really say that sums this movie up better than, "It's sucks...a lot." Bad acting, bad story, bad development...it's just bad in every posssible category you could imagine. I had a hard time sitting through all of it, and trust me, I've seen some bad movies. This one belongs in the mix with the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 movies. If you haven't seen the movie I highly advise you don't. Was this review helpful?  
2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
4 of 5 Wow Monday, February 24, 2003
A Viewer from Tucson, AZ
Amazing special effects, superior-to-genre acting. Think Mad Max meets Lord of the Rings and then add a sense of humor and you'll have it about right. Either the British accents fade after the first 2 minutes or you get used to them, I'm not sure which. Good fun; recommended for both genders. Was this review helpful?
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