Lack of good storyline.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Dragon Fighter is the first Sci-Fi Channel (although I guess it's now called Syfy?) original movie I have ever seen. But I have seen one or two others since, and I can tell you that they were stupid, but this one really scrapes the bottom of the barrel. The CGI is done poorly, the acting is bad, the script is ridiculous, and what happens at the very end is unexpected and out of place (if you have seen Dragon Fighter, you probably know what I mean; I didn't want to put a spoiler in my review). Plus, there was this one musical tune that was used in pretty much every single dangerous sequence. That was really stupid; they just played it over and over. And it's definitely not original; I know I've heard that somewhere before (I just can't remember where). This is one to avoid.

there are those movies that are bad they are funny, then there are those where you scream "i want that one and a half hours of my life back"...thats pretty much what this is.dean cain tries to be an actor but fails. the sfx are really bad (repeated scenes and rocks that look like falling paper) and the fake plastic guns that have torches taped on them...the split screen effect used to show multiple things happening at once is just terrible.this movie cant even be used as one of those simple night entertainers, its just that badif i could go negative ratings, i would

The dragon on the DVD cover was a clone indeed... of the excellently executed dragon in Dragon Heart, which kind of raises your expectations of the CGI in this film. Alas, only to be disappointed.Naturally, the central element in any monster flick is scientifically questionable, to say the least, but one has to accept it in order to see a monster pitched against the heroes. However, what really bugs me about many of these films is that no effort whatsoever has been done to make the monster premise more easy to accept by surrounding it with real science and rational human beings such as was the case in Jurassic Park. But then that film was based on a book and script that made some sense.The story of Dragon Fighter is downright stupid and full of inconsistencies. The dragon grows from one cell into a huge monster in three hours, what would normally take decades. The hero seems to know from the beginning what it is all about, so you would expect him the have some external knowledge, a special agent maybe? But no, he just "guesses" right, so as to show he is no stupid soldier. In contrast, all the supposedly hyper-intelligent scientists in this hush-hush super-advanced laboratory act like dumb and dumber, especially the bad guy who does practically everything he can to get everybody killed, including himself. Why would anyone open the door of an aircraft wide enough to fall through, when all they want to do is take a picture (why not take that a picture through the window? And did he really think that puny camera would have a flash that was strong enough to film up a flying dragon at night? Why have stat screens of the people in the film when they are displayed so fast that you have no time to read them. Why would a mechanic turn on the airco after having been told the dragon looks for cool areas, and why would he turn up the radio like saying, hello, here I am, please kill me! What is the idea with having a cook who pretends to be a deaf-mute, starts to speak without a single sensible line and then gets killed kind of pointlessly. A shotgun that supposedly can stop an elephant with one cartridge has no effect whatsoever on an equally-sized dragon. What is the point of dragging around a knight's sword and not using it. And since when do F-16s have no board gun anymore. What stopped them from blasting the dragon with cannon fire? How come one fireball is enough to knock down a jet fighter, but it does not harm a helicopter that is leaking fuel. It begs too much of my tolerance! There was not enough budget for the CGI so we see no actual interaction between the humans and the dragon and shots of the dragon are repeated in an annoyingly obvious way.Still, apart from all that, I still thought the film was more amusing than Reign of Fire, which only means how deeply ashamed the makers of that big budget film should be.

The first 45 minutes of Dragon Fighter are entirely acceptable and surprisingly watchable. The characters are believable and interesting. The cloning lab looks really high-tech. After that, it all collapses. The characters start behaving idiotically, and a new subplot is introduced from nowhere about a fusion reactor (and this is supposedly "present day") going critical, the only plot justification of which is that it is required to kill the dragon - only it doesn't. The finish is incredibly weak. One wonders what made a movie that started out so well turn so wrong.All the characters except Dean Cain are played by Russians. This results in some weird situations and details, like the character being played by Vessela Dimitrova being called "Bailey Kent" despite her heavy accent (and despite her, on one occasion, inexplicably switching to *Spanish*!).Because of the decent start, I considered rating this movie a 5, but it really was more disappointing than that, so I only give it 4.