D-War is a complete waste of time that shouldn't be watched by anyone, for any reason.

| Aug 4, 2021

It's the ultimate matinée film, and to me (as a non-Korean) it never seemed to try and make like it was anything else.

| Jan 23, 2020

The film didn't promise anything more than it delivered.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2014

DRAGON WARS knows it's dumb, and just has fun. It's my new guilty pleasure!

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 22, 2008

By no reasonable reckoning can the film be considered a competent piece of cinematic storytelling, yet somehow the movie transcends its silly screenplay with over-the-top action and visually imaginative battles.

| Jul 10, 2008

A movie without a single redeeming quality that we highly recommend.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 15, 2007

blissfully awful

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 30, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 29, 2007

This one really should have been immediately relegated to the discount bin.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 24, 2007

Takes such leaps and bounds of mediocrity and utterly nonsensical storylines that it ends up being a jumbled mess...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 24, 2007

The painful English-language sequences almost don't matter: The rock-'em-sock-'em monster melees truly are spectacular, even if the images sometimes seem more hazy than tactile, as is typical of digital special effects.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2007

The concept here is fun -- good and evil dragons of ancient Korean legend do battle in modern-day Los Angeles -- but a lazy and amateurish script and embarrassingly hollow acting hobble it right out of the gate.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 20, 2007

...low camp...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 20, 2007

We've all heard of movies so bad they're good, and some folks have them on DVD, in captivity. But how many of us have seen one in the wild?

| Sep 18, 2007

It is such a breathless, delirious stew, it's impossible not to be entertained, provided -- this is crucial -- you have a sense of humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 17, 2007

Shim's picture is suitable for youngsters and delivers enough goofy fun to keep adults with fond memories of Destroy All Monsters (1968) from getting restless.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 17, 2007

When they decide to sic [those monsters] on downtown Los Angeles, the movie turns shockingly watchable. Until that sequence, there was no evidence that anybody involved with this laughable fantasy knew what he or she was doing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 17, 2007

The rampaging-monsters flick Dragon Wars loudly speaks the universal language of effects-laden mayhem. Unfortunately, it is also fluent in the laughable dialogue of a million bad fantasy flicks.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 17, 2007

The only winners in Dragon Wars are the computer-imaging geeks who must have logged tons of overtime. The rest of the world is left scratching its head at a monster epic so dismal that it doesn't even register as a guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 17, 2007

Written as well as directed by Hyung-rae Shim, which apparently means Uwe Boll in Korean, [it's] so campily awful that it's Mystery Science Theater-ready.

| Original Score: F | Sep 16, 2007