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List Price: $28.95 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $8.96 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 14 September, 2007 DVD Release : 08 January, 2008 |
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Dragon Wars - D-War description Stunning computer-generated special effects are the main selling point of Dragon Wars: D-War, a Korean-made fantasy about ancient monsters wreaking havoc in modern Los Angeles. The complex plot, based on legend, pits an evil serpent and its demonic army against a young woman (Amanda Brooks) who is the reincarnation of a young woman imbued with the heaven-sent power to transform the creature into an all-powerful dragon. Jason Behr (The Grudge) is the reporter who discovers that he too is a reincarnated warrior bound to prevent Brooks and her power from falling into the wrong hands. The elaborate premise isn't helped by the script, which delivers absurd dialogue and situations with child-like naivete; thankfully, the presence of Robert Forster (as another reincarnated hero) and solid actors like Elizabeth Pena, The Office's Craig Robinson, and Chris Mulkey, help smooth over the frequent moments of unintentional humor. But this won't matter much to fantasy fans and (especially) younger viewers, who will tune in for the film's riot of special effects; director Shim Hyung-rae and his talented team offer scene after scene of exceptional CGI creations, most notably a aerial dogfight between helicopters and winged lizards in the skies above downtown L.A., and a climactic battle which makes good on the title's promise. The DVD includes a making-of featurette which outlines Shim's four-year struggle to complete the project, as well as storyboard galleries and an animatics display. -- Paul Gaita |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | 5-10 Minutes of Cool CGI Can't Save a Horrible Story/Movie |
| I saw a preview for this movie when watching another DVD. I guess they showed all of the great scenes of dragons destroying a city in the preview. Because those 5-10 minutes of the movie were the only ones even possibly worth watching. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't even spend $3 on a rental. I'd wait until it was on network TV so I could watch the destruction scenes for free and skip the rest and watch something else.
This story is so disjointed and makes no real sense. Every 500 years with the ability to make a dragon superior. If it's a war between the good & bad dragon for the power, why is it that only the bad dragon is out & about and fighting in the city? The good dragon lets all the destruction happens and waits in a cave for the girl to be brought there? Get real! This would have been better if the two dragons had armies and were fighting each other over the city. The girl with the power is under quarantine, but a news reporter trying to help her gets let in by a doctor who likes him on TV. Then, when the bad dragon attacks the hospital, the doctor (for unknown reasons) breaks in and says "You have to get her out of here. Take the stairs" And in a crowded hospital only one car is in the parking lot? Whatever! The story is hard to follow & hard to get into or believe for one minute. How a giant dragon is crawling on a building but no one sees it or knows it is beyond me (guess the city is blind until tanks roll down the streets). All key players are reincarnated....umm okay. And the Army is led by a guy that gets hit by a car (twice). Oh..and the guy falls in love with "quarantine girl" when they stop to gather their thoughts by walking on a beach (no less than 6 hours before he met her). Again...get real! Some reviewers say this is supposed to be a comedy. Albeit, there are some funny parts, I don't think this movie is a comedy in any sense of the word. Just goes to show that good special effects can't save a move that is so horrible with a hard to follow story line, bad acting, and thoroughly painful time between destruction scenes. I am kicking myself for wasting the $$$ to buy it! I'd give it 0 stars if that was an option but the 1 star is for the good CGI of destruction. Don't waste your money. Period! |
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