I love this movie so much

Best movie ever!

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Years ago, Travis Preston (Scott Adkins) was on an expedition that ended in tragedy, when the renegade Harker (Dolph Lundgren) impulsively tried to take out a bear. Years later, he's been approached by a lawyer, who wants him to join him and a group of other hunters on another expedition, on the Chinese coast to hunt a fabled dragon. Little does Travis know, this will set him on another collision course with his old nemesis.If Scott Adkins had been around in the early '90s or so, he could have made a much bigger deal of himself, fitting the bill as a young, lean martial arts expert (from the Midlands, as well!) who might not have the best acting talents, but can dazzle with the hand to hand stuff. Much like his co star Lundgren, the bad guy here, who time dealt the winning hand to. Nowadays, though, that's a gimmick that just doesn't work as well, and the straight to DVD market has proved pretty much his only outlet.This is misleadingly sold as an action movie, in reality more befitting of the type of family adventure crud that washes up on Saturday morning telly, with a dreary, laborious story that never feels like it's going anywhere. Needless to say, there's no tasty fight between Dolph and Adkins, and the big pay off at the end is a less than breath taking CGI dragon that wouldn't give Jurassic World anything to worry about. Given it all feels so unsure of itself and out of place with it's contributors, you just have to wonder if anyone actually read the script at all. **

(Credit IMDb) Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn't supposed to exist ... their mission to capture a Cryptid which is wreaking havoc in a remote village and they need to do this before it is killed by Harker, the legendary bounty hunter.Dolph Lundgren is one of my favorite action stars from the 80's, and Scott Adkins has set the standard for burgeoning stars as far as action stars go. How could you possibly go wrong with those two? It turns out a lot. Those expecting a movie filled with action will be highly disappointed. In lieu of action, we get an excruciatingly boring adventure film that features very little to no excitement. It has some really lame CGI with animals and it doesn't take advantage of the martial art skills that both Lundgren and Adkins have. It's way too talky and sleep inducing to make much of an impact. The only good thing about this movie is the cinematography. 2/10

I can't get my head around Scott Adkins, he's acted alongside some of the top action men of all time and in some big action flicks, but most of his work is straight to DVD, badly acted, throw away hokum. You only gotta look at his filmography, half of them you probably haven't heard of.I give you exhibit A: this time Adkins hangs up his martial arts skills and tries his hand at the Indiana Jones angle as a cryptozoologist (mythic creatures instead of mythic places and objects). After the failure to capture...errr a very large bear, its off to China to hunt down...errrm a very big lizard...oh OK a dragon then. Its Adkins and his goodie goodie team of kind scientists vs Lundgren and his baddie team of hunters. Yep you've guessed it, Adkins and co wanna find and study, Lundgren and co wanna hunt and kill!So a US accented Adkins leaps about in this really iffy low budget creature feature which doesn't really scare or thrill. Nothing much happens at all accept for the odd obligatory water sequence where faceless people get snatched by the monster. Its all very 'Lake Placid' like but with really bad attempted humour and some atrocious acting all round.The dragon in question isn't really a dragon naturally (shame), they go down the more realistic approach and merely make it an overgrown gecko type lizard...salamanderzilla. So no fantasy element just a stupid looking big lizard that doesn't really look threatening. The finale sequence in the caves really shows the creature in a bad light, hokey ass CGI. The moment Adkins wrestles the beast is fantastically crappy looking, even Harryhausen's dated work looks better.The only thing more hokey than the CGI lizard is the lurching Lundgren and of course this being a flick with the two action men they gotta fight. Amazingly though neither of them gets their shirts off, old fashioned fisticuffs for this one.The entire film is basically trash accept for the finale which is slightly more exciting, as said the lizard looks awful but at least you get plenty of eating action. It feels like a homage to those old Doug McClure fantasy flicks more than anything, then you could easily forgive the schlock on screen, problem is it isn't. Why would the Chinese hire Americans to search their countryside for a man eating amphibian?2.5/10

just watched this movie and one thing i don't really understand.How would any animal leave a piece of its tooth in its prey ??why would the director or any man with some common sense overlook this obvious error ?I appreciate Chinese being spoken in the movie as it's my mother tone but that doesn't necessarily mean they would be THAT that interesting to all the other viewers, especially when the words are not that funny. p.s. that "dragon" thing they call in the movie looked like a over- sized lizard to me.good