The characters are sketchy, the plot is full of logical holes and the story is all fight and flight. But despite its flaws, it is enjoyable if you like special effects, warriors and computer-generated dragons.

| Mar 31, 2019

For all its silliness, Reign of Fire never bores, and may actually appeal to your inner twelve-year-old.

| Mar 31, 2019

The poor dragons - on screen not nearly enough as it is - stand no chance pitted against this kind of heavyweight ham.

| Mar 31, 2019

An odd cross between Mad Max and Dragonheart, this movie is all borrowed ideas, but it's still trashy fun.

| Mar 31, 2019

The climactic SFX are well mounted and it's all too preposterous to dislike.

| Feb 9, 2006

Everybody is screaming and yelling. The costumes and the sets all look like they're left over from Mad Max. Everybody's wearing leather and big boots and they're all dirty and it's just like any other end of the world scenario you've ever seen.

| Nov 20, 2003

Entertaining enough as summer fare, but not the jaw-dropping spectacle we'd hoped for.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2003

Stupid futuristic nonsense.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2002

There is an enjoyably outrageous aerial combat sequence when the flying dragons are attacked by military helicopters. The problem is that this is such a rare moment of fun and action; the rest is dour bickering.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 26, 2002

It's hard not to like a film that has sky divers jumping out of helicopters to catch flying dragons in a big net.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2002

There's the bad CGI, the choppy pacing, the comically intense acting, the repetition, the dullness and mostly the idiot plot.

| Jul 25, 2002

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

Full Review | Jul 16, 2002

I'm not going to argue that Reign of Fire is a good movie, but it's terribly entertaining it's kind of a classic camp film, so I'm giving it thumbs up.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2002

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

Full Review | Jul 14, 2002

The stars are the dragons. They really set a new high for cinema SFX: lithe as flying eels with vast wings, ferocious sets of gnashers and an ability to expectorate molten gobs of all-devouring fire.

| Jul 14, 2002

A brilliant idea that somehow misses the mark by a North country mile, Reign of Fire will make monster fans ache for what might have been.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 14, 2002

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

| Original Score: B | Jul 13, 2002

An uncommonly exciting and satisfying post-apocalyptic popcorn flick.

| Jul 12, 2002

A disaster of a drama, saved only by its winged assailants.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2002

Silly, loud and goofy.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2002