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Release Date:
12 July 2002 (USA) moreTagline:
Fight Fire With Fire morePlot:
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting fire to everything, establishing dominance over the planet. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
1 win & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(13 articles)
Cell-Phone Cameras Cover London Attacks (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 8 July 2005)
More 'Wedding' Gifts for Movie's Writer-Star
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 5 September 2002)
User Comments:
An Uneasy Mix Of Two Genres moreUS TV Schedule:
| Sat. July 4 | 4:00 PM | AMC | |||
| Sun. July 5 | 1:00 PM | AMC |
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Christian Bale | ... | Quinn Abercromby | |
| Matthew McConaughey | ... | Denton Van Zan | |
| Izabella Scorupco | ... | Alex Jensen | |
| Gerard Butler | ... | Creedy | |
| Scott Moutter | ... | Jared Wilke (as Scott James Moutter) | |
| David Kennedy | ... | Eddie Stax | |
| Alexander Siddig | ... | Ajay | |
| Ned Dennehy | ... | Barlow | |
| Rory Keenan | ... | Devon | |
| Terence Maynard | ... | Gideon | |
| Doug Cockle | ... | Goosh | |
| Randall Carlton | ... | Burke (Tito) | |
| Chris Kelly | ... | Mead | |
| Ben Thornton | ... | Young Quinn | |
| Alice Krige | ... | Karen Abercromby |
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Rated PG-13 for intense action violence.Parents Guide:
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101 minLanguage:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Netherlands:12 | Malaysia:U | Iceland:12 | South Korea:12 | New Zealand:M | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39148) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Denmark:11 | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Japan:R | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:12 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:12 | Canada:PGFun Stuff
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The method by which the dragons expel fire was inspired by two actual animals; the spitting cobra and bombardier beetle. moreGoofs:
Errors in geography: Part of the film is set in treacherous mountain terrain, allegedly in Norfolk - famously one of the flattest counties in England, with only one hill rising over 300 feet above sea level. moreQuotes:
Van Zan: It was your idea to come to London.Alex: Yeah, well that was at thirty five thousand feet.
Van Zan: Yeah. Well life has a way of turnin' that different though don't it?
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Watching REIGN OF FIRE I was left with the impression that the script was originally written as a bleak post apocalyptic drama in the tradition of John Wyndham and John Christopher , where a Hollywood studio decided the script wasn't marketable enough so a studio executive decided to introduce dragons into the screenplay as a commercial gimmick
Where REIGN OF FIRE works best is in its survivalist themes . Quinn leads a band of survivors and when they hear " Edinburgh is gone " they react if it's the worst news in the world . You can believe these guys are starving to death , that all hope is gone and when they see Denton's American militia arrive you know that the undercurrents of tribalism and rivalry are going to surface . Unlike 28 DAYS LATER this movie almost works as post apocalyptic thriller
These "Shattered Earth " ideas are very convincing but as soon as the dragons are introduced the illusion falls apart because for a film marketed as featuring fire breathing dragons ( You have seen the posters right ? ) they seem to be there as an after thought and are totally underdeveloped in the script . There's no real explanation as to how or why the dragons were hibernating in the London underground and the whole concept doesn't bare up to any close scrutiny . Why weren't nuclear weapons effective against them when a dragon can be killed with a road pick ? Very little thought indeed seems to have gone into this aspect of the script and needless to say the ending is a cop out
Note to Hollywood executives - If you're going to finance a film that features a desperate band of survivors can you cut out gimmicks like zombies and dragons please ? Thank you