Karry
Best movie of this year hands down!
Nonureva
Really Surprised!
Kailansorac
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Sameeha Pugh
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
teralitha
The main plot of the story is interesting. I would give it a 10 except for some of its flaws. First, the bad.1. The early interaction between Berek and Valarius was kinda lame. I know they wanted to portray weakness in the leader of the quest for later emotional points, but that scene was just lame. They should have gone about it differently. Otherwise Berek played his role very well.2. The cleric, Dorian. His part to play in the movie is almost non existent. And the actor playing him was kinda... blah. The only thing he does in the whole movie is bang a hammer, banish spectres, and make a weak fire shield before dying. They should have had a better actor and added more to his role before killing him off, which I didn't mind.3. Malora. I liked her acting for most of it, but the early spell casting scenes were a bit fake looking.4. The movie was too short in my opinion. It needed more. A really good dungeon and dragons movie with a good story would really need like 3-4 hours. Why they cut things out I don't understand, and didn't fix inconsistencies.5. In the bonus features they show the character stats as they would be from the game. And... there are inconsistencies. Berek, Dorian, Lux are all lvl 7. I don't recall seeing Nihms level or Omaleen(elf wizard) But she had to be at least lvl 10 or 11 to have 2 teleport spells memorized. Berek also was listed as having 19 strength(naturally?) They said he was wearing bracers of titan strength, which I believe would be something like 25(Godlike) His character never once was portrayed as having this godlike strength, Nor was did the actor even look remotely muscular to have a natural 19. Malora class and levels and actual profession are confusing. She was listed as a lvl 5 mage/level 1 cleric of obad hai. This would mean she was dual class, and according to the rules she could never gain any more levels as a mage. Yet, at the end of the movie, she was added to the council of mages. Her whole story seemed to revolve around the idea that clerics of ancient Turan wielded elemental magics(like mages) and it was some long lost secret that apparently clerics(finest healers in the land) at the temple of Obad hai had no knowledge of. So basically the writers got mages and clerics mixed up in the back story.The good. I like the action music. I liked most of the acting. I liked most of the story. I liked the emotional drama. I liked how they stayed as true as possible to the game. Overall I like the movie and have watched it many times and will watch it many more times. Im glad to own it.
Wuchak
RELEASD TO TV IN 2005 and directed by Gerry Lively, "Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God" amasses a good group of protagonists who seek to find some magical black orb and save their kingdom, Ismir, from the wrath of a malevolent dragon slumbering in a nearby mountain. This involves an evil wizard, Damodar, played by Bruce Payne, who is the only one to return from the first D&D film from 2000. I liked the whole adventure-quest aspect of the story and the colorful group of characters who join together to defeat the wizard and save the kingdom: A noble ex-knight statesman (Mark Dymond), a cleric (Steven Elder), a rogue (Tim Stern), a hot warrior woman (Ellie Chidzey) and an elf girl mage (Lucy Gaskell). The stunning Clemency Burton-Hill is also on hand as the nobleman's wife who does her part to help save Ismir. The towering Chidzey (5'11") is nice & curvy rather than unappealingly thin, like the stereotypical model. Although I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, I read one of the books years ago and numerous others from the sword & sorcery genre, especially Conan, Gor and ERB, not to mention numerous sword & sorcery flicks (some being sword & NO sorcery, like "First Knight" and "King Arthur," lol). Anyway, this second "Dungeons & Dragon" movie works just good enough for me to give it a decent grade. Although it was relatively low-budget (I'm actually surprised it cost $15 million) it's generally superior to the typical Syfy fare and thoroughly austere compared to the campy first film. I liked how the writers actually threw in some nice character bits, like the developing friendship/respect of the rogue and the barbarian. They should've included more."Dungeons & Dragons" is a fitting title because you get your fill of both. There are numerous dungeon scenes with torches and secret passageways, as well as two impressive dragon sequences, one featuring an ice dragon and another with the mountain dragon who looks like Satan himself. On top of this you get some quality forest locations and Medieval sets.THE FILM RUNS 105 minutes was shot in Lithuania. WRITERS: Robert Kimmel, Lively (the director) and Brian Rudnick.GRADE: B-
Leofwine_draca
We're talking fantasy on a bargain-basement level here, of the kind not seen since the woeful days of BEASTMASTER 3 and KULL THE CONQUEROR. With a threadbare narrative propelling along a tired old story about "collect X magical relic of old and destroy X evil wizard in the process", WRATH OF THE DRAGON GOD is a walking cliché through and through.With copious nods to Lord of the Rings along the way, this film follows a party of adventurers as they set out on a seemingly impossible quest and...yep, I'm bored already. Although I haven't seen the original DUNGEONS & DRAGONS film, I can't imagine that it was much of an improvement on this. When a movie's sole actor of note is hammy B-movie stalwart Bruce Payne (PASSENGER 57), you know you're in trouble, and the would-be thespians appearing here instill zero confidence in the viewer. This is a cast picked for their looks alone, which occasionally pays off (Ellie Chidzey's female barbarian is a pleasure to watch) but often fails (Clemency Burton-Hill's wizard would look more at home pushing a pram around Bluewater).There are set-pieces galore, from a lich ambush in the woods to the battle with an ice dragon in a ruined village. Along the way, there's some dungeon adventuring stuff, a magic battle and a supposedly full-scale dragon attack climax. The CGI effects are never less than awful, but even worse are the rubbery masks worn by the likes of the guy playing the lich...absolutely terrible, Halloween-party stuff. As for Payne, he hams it up as you'd expect but would be more suited to a pantomime role instead of this dreck. Give WRATH OF THE DRAGON GOD a miss if you respect this genre even a tiny little bit.
stormruston
This version of a D&D movie is a vast improvement over the first as far as staying within the realm of D&D goes. I was surprised just how much I enjoyed this movie. Good acting , charismatic characters, well done Sword-fights( this surprised me) and some very good special effects, OK a few were cheesy but most really were very good.This movie stays within the world of D&D and that should please the game fans. For those who are not fans of the game but love a good fantasy, this movie will work for you too. It is no lord of the rings but when comparing apples to apples this movie does more then hold its own given the budget. I highly recommend this top quality "B" movie.