Monday, January 14, 2008

D-War (AKA Dragon Wars)


The Good:
The Battle in the 16th century was neat, if unbelievable.
Did you know it was part high-flying kung-fu movie?
There were a few stupid laughs in it.
There was a kinda cool King Kong homage of sorts.
The monster movie carnage was fun to watch.

The Bad:
It allowed no time for a suspension of disbelief to set in.
Wow... the plot was similar to badly written episode of Charmed.
I think I saw Sauron in 16th century Korea.
Some stuff just didn't make any sense at all.
Jason Behr's acting was the same as it was in Roswell (funny, I thought his acting was stilted there because he was an alien, I guess not).
The end was confusing and dumb, but it was interesting visually.

(The version I watched didn't have subtitles for the foreign language parts - not sure if it usually does or not)

Overall: It was alright as long as you don't care about plot and all you want to see is Magic vs. Military. If you'd rather see a monster movie with heart, I recommend The Host (for my review of it click here).

1 comment:

Frayed One said...

No - Jason Behr is just a bad actor - in all situations.