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DragonHeart (1996)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
7/18
7/18:
DragonHeart means well.
Unfortunately, it's too middling for me to get into the action. Dennis Quaid is perfect and plays a great
character. If it weren't for him, the movie would've never taken off. The other star is Draco whose voice is
supplied by Sean Connery. The dragon looks pretty good for 1996, but how it blends in with the environs is
disappointing. An example of what I mean is the weak to no impact of Draco's force against the landscape or
water surface.
The rest of the cast, which is made up of a bunch of nobodies, ranges from okay to fair. David Thewlis reminds
me of Timothy Dalton from Mary, Queen of Scots. Julie Christie looks
aged and is now plain.
Of course, DragonHeart wouldn't have been made possible until the CGI technology was taken advantage of
for Jurassic Park. That's why Draco looks too familiar, invoking memories
of the dinosaurs. The main trouble is the middle. Good films tend to have a smattering of interesting incidents
for filler, but here, it just goes in circles, leaving me exasperated when I wanted the story to move along.
This is what happens when a studio decides to hire a weak screenwriter by the name of Charles Edward Pogue.
All in all, DragonHeart is a decent fantasy movie for little kids or man-children who want to have a
relationship with dragons.