Reign Of Fire: Critic Reviews

The season could do with more grinning, spinning, un-self-important, happy-to-be-B throwback movies like this one.

Peaks early with a vertiginous dogfight; thereafter, spotty CGI and a bamboozling plot conspire toward a colossal anticlimax.

An uncommonly exciting and satisfying post-apocalyptic popcorn flick.

Ultimately fails to come through in the fire-breathing clutch.

Somebody get a hose and put this Fire out.

Plodding sci-fi dragon disaster tale is OK for older kids.

While the dragons come out blazing, the rest of the movie is blowing smoke.

good entertainment

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... Reign of Fire is somehow greater than the sum of its parts.

It's painful to watch actors like McConaughey and Bale, who showed so much potential at one time in their careers, shamelessly overact and spout inane dialogue.

...McConaughey goes for broke and turns this guy into an amalgam of every hard-nosed soldier previously committed to celluloid.

Roteiro absurdo, historia fragil, personagens pouco agradaveis e acao nada empolgante.

If London in cinders and medium rare sky-diving soldiers can't get you into the cinema, you're probably one of those people who were never fascinated by matches as a child.

Reign Of Fire should at least be a marvel of special effects, but alas, even the dragon's not very much fun.

Reign of Fire is the schoolyard bully who used to beat the crap out of you during breaks: it is big, loud, dumb and never explains itself.

Despite a few epic revelations, we never get a real sense of living, breathing dragons.

Wouldn't you have thought that a studio about to spend over $90,000,000 on a movie would have begun with a script instead of a few special effects?

Delivers a fresh, rousing take on the venerable traditions of the monster movie.

If "Reign of Fire" could have spared a few more bucks to pump up the thrills and spent a little longer working out the story's ending, it might have become one of the highest grossing films of the summer.

Reign of Fire contains several scenes in which the screen is filled with immense fire-breathing dragons, but you don't feel the slightest twinge of awe or fear for the size of these creatures or their incredible destructive powers.

Far too dark and menacing for kids, this fire-dragons story is far too silly for adults. With its M rating, maybe it's intended audience is exactly 15 year old boys.

La carta fuerte de este filme reside en su poderoso trabajo de computadora y en sus fastuosos efectos especiales. Nada mas.

Reign of Fire looks nice, and wiles away 90 minutes of screen time agreeably.

'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.'