Only one species is getting out of this alive. ![]() They're starving now, and they're more dangerous than ever. You have to understand our past, because you will decide our future. But in the end, we only helped them, till the world burned, and the few of us that were left fled the cities, found shelter where we could. ![]() We could only look on as our leaders used their greatest arsenal to destroy them. Our weapons shot fire back at them, yet for every one of them killed, a hundred took its place. Too late, our scientists discovered their true identity: a species which had burned the dinosaurs to dust, whose ash had brought on ice ages, who in eons past had scorched the world clean of life, then starved and slept, waiting for the Earth to replenish itself, waiting to start their cycle anew. Ancient man had made them into myths, but nature had made something far more terrible. Even then, we couldn't believe they were real. No one knew how they spawned so fast, they swarmed like locusts, burning everything in their path, driven by one purpose: to feed. Or when he offers a drink from the flask he’s been drinking from the whole movie and it turns out it’s just water. We can do this easy, or we can do it real easy. Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Gerard Butler, Alice Krige - its a shame that the film itself is a little underdeveloped to match that star power. But when a group of Americans lead by the arrogant Denton Van Zan (Matthew McConaughey - The Wedding Planner) arrive the fragile harmony is shattered as Denton. I saw the first, but soon the world saw millions. I used to love this movie and Matthew mcconaughey’s cheesy badass character. In the beginning, it was ignorance that destroyed us. Knowledge is the only weapon we've got left. I've kept this for years, because someday it will be up to you. With a steady supply of crowd-pleasing highlights, Reign of Fire is a pyrotechnical treat. Mixing high-tech gadgetry with primitive survivalism, X-Files alumnus Rob Bowman makes the most of his midlevel budget, establishing a lavish castle base for the rugged, adversarial teaming of Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey as dragonslayers on the brink of extinction. While the earlier film offers a richer, more whimsical medieval adventure, Reign of Fire is a fast-moving tale of man versus dragon that takes place in the charred England of 2020, after Earth has been scorched by rapidly multiplying dragons and the aftermath of a futile nuclear counterstrike. Reign of Fire exists primarily to give us a bigger and better dragon than the Vermithrax Pejorative of 1981's classic Dragonslayer, and in that regard, the special effects are mightily impressive the reptilian fire-breathers are stupendously convincing. ![]() The Road Warrior meets Dragonslayer in the briskly entertaining post-apocalyptic action thriller Reign of Fire.
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