Product Description: Meet Buraki the vicious 200-meter long Imoogi serpent from ancient Korea. His army includes giant lizards with missile launchers flying dragons soldiers bred for evil and mega-intelligent dinosaurs. Together they will destroy Los Angeles and possibly the world unless reincarnated warriors Ethan and Sarah can outrun them and resurrect the Good Imoogi Buraki s ancient nemesis. Dragon Wars reveals every last detail of Earth s greatest battle a war you ll only believe when you see it for yourself.System Requirements:Running Time: 90 Mins.Format: UMD Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/ALIEN INVASION Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396245303 Manufacturer No: 24530
Amazon.com: 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
Aside from thre CGI created creatures it lakes on everything else of what a movie must have.
Ridiculous Ok, I LOVE dragons. My all time favorite dragon movie is, of course, Dragonslayer. SO, naturally I saw this and thought "Oh neat-o a new dragon movie!" What a monumentally ridiculous waste of time. The only thing that redeemed the hour and half that i wasted watching this was the appearance of the classic Asian dragon in the last few frames. The story was interesting and had SO much potential....but fell totally flat. What a disappointment.
This is.... well, something, that's for sure. This movie was so bad it almost made me ask for my money back. I can't explain why I love it, though. It wasn't Godzilla bad, not even Gamera bad. It was just plain, out and out, bad. There were rocket launcher toting slugs and acting so painful I needed an aspirin. But, it was fun. My friend and I were alone in the theater so we made fun of it at every turn. From LOLDragons ('It eats me!' and 'I'm in your city, eating your reincarnated virgins!') to pop culture to inside jokes, we made fun of this movie and had a wonderful time. (At one point we broke out into Fett's Vett by M.C. Chris. It just seemed to fit.) Watching the movie a second time just wasn't as funny. But the first time was such fun, we didn't even ask for our money back. We're waiting to pick up a copy so we can inflict this pain upon a new audience, an audience which needs punished but not killed. D-Wars should do the trick.
So bad I'm Speechless I can't even imagine how to put how bad this movie is into words. I'll try. Let me start by saying that I never saw it coming. The trailer looked good enough. The movie started out ok, with a little too long intro/back story with some interesting CG work that was obviously made to spoof the old Japanese monster movies (or the Power Rangers for you kiddos reading this review). After that, things went downhill... and fast. There was so little effort made to connect you to the present day hero/heroine that you never cared about whether they ever lived or died. Even my kids agreed. The CG dragons, even the little ones, were all made realistically enough. But that in no way makes up for how awful the storyline was. Some are saying to watch this movie for the CG dragons. Please trust me that it is totally NOT worth it. If you must, rent it, skip to the last battle scene, watch that and that alone, and save yourself any effort to painfully sit through this thing.
End of my review
Now, for the play by play. You by no means have to read this as it contains some big spoilers, but here goes...
My emotions throughout this movie were: 1)Initial curiosity 2)Wait for the story 3)still waiting 4)Present day comes and... Initial fears that this is all the story we're getting 5)What the heck was that? Was that supposed to be a fight scene outside the bar? Oh, please don't tell me this is the indicator of the level of action sequences we're going to get 6)Camera man friend of the reporter makes a couple of deadpan remarks that make me think there may be some redeeming value to the movie coming up at some point 7)stomach drops as I realize suddenly that there will be no redeeming value to this movie 8)my face melts off from the anguish boiling up inside me 9)confusion sets in... and again... and again... and again... 10)Please let the main characters just die so this movie will end now 11)YES THEY DIED! 12)Yes, I knew they couldn't have possibly died, but I was sure hoping. Ok, I've made it this far, I can watch this ending action sequence 12)Hey, cool battle... except why suddenly does this cave look like it is outside? oh, wait, the dragons look the same. Which one is which? What is going on? Wha... 13)It's over. Whatever. Let me just turn it off and grab something for the indigestion I now have.
D-War (the D is for Dilapidated) The Good Things *Good special effects. Lots of great battles with lots of mass destruction. *Some vivid imagery, especially at the end. *Good usage of mythology. *Lots of cool creatures and weapon designs.
The Bad Things *Everything else! The plot is kind of odd, the characters are incredibly bad, and the writing is bad.
The Questionable Things *Some laughable scenes; can be good or bad.
This can be seen either as a really bad blockbuster or a really good B-movie. In any case, the story qualities are terrible, and the only good redeeming quality in this movie are the smashing special effects and battles.
The DVD has good image and sound quality, and has a couple of good making-of featurettes.
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