The Age of Commercialism

disgusting, overrated, pointless

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

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

It's hard to praise this film much. The CGI for the dragon was well done, but lacked proper modelling for light and shadow. Also, the same footage is used endlessly of the dragon stomping through corridors which becomes slightly tedious.I was amazed to see "Marcus Aurelius" in the acting credits, wondering what an ex-Emperor of the Roman Empire was doing acting in this film! Like "Whoopie Goldberg" it must be an alias, and can one blame him for using one if he appears in this stinker.The story might been interesting, but the acting is flat, and direction is tedious. If you MUST watch this film, go around to your friend's house and get drunk while doing so - then it'll be enjoyable.

Not quite, Dean, more one of those old creature features from the 1950's. This may be a totally predictable film but I found it quite enjoyable as a throw-back to the old square-jaw, thud & blunder movies of the past.Yes,the plot is the old 'trapped in a contained space where the hunters become the hunted' etc and perhaps all done by the numbers. But it's played straight and the cast do well, flashes of humour, the dialogue is OK and Dean Cain makes a reasonable action hero.It's fine for what it is, a dumb monster movie that passes the time and moves along without becoming too boring or outstaying it's welcome. The multi-split screen bits weren't as annoying as I first thought they would be. The CGI effects were pretty decent too, you can see from repeat shots of the dragon that both time and money was at a premium but it still looks quite effective.Not a classic of the horror/creature genre by any stretch of the imagination but as lightweight popcorn entertainment, I felt it did pretty much what it set out to do.

Don't take it too seriously, and you'll have fun... the actors do their jobs very well, despite tough conditions, and lax direction. What you have here is essentially -- a number of good actors, notably Dean Cain and Hristo Shopov, both very accomplished with work in VERY good films, fulfilling their jobs as ACTORS in a less-than-Academy Award level stuff. It's a classic case of "doing the job..." As Michael Caine said: "why do you make all these movies...?" Answer: "Because I'm an actor..."