A different way of telling a story

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It's very easy to bash low-budget films, and most do not realise the time, effort and passion that goes into their creation. People only seem to comment on the 'bad' acting, the 'bad' SFX, and the 'bad' dialogue, forgetting - and lets be honest here - that's the whole reason we watch them.However, when a film comes along that spends it's entirety in an utterly featureless forest so that superfluous and forgettable characters can spout exposition of unseen events while trying to create a vague air of looming malevolence by waving swords at the ether, you really begin to wonder... "Dragon - why do you hate me?" There's much to enjoy here - endlessly quotable dialogue for the bad movie fans, and Eliza Swenson always commands attention - but entirely let down by a screenplay chock-full of Leigh Scott's brand of plot-less meanderings and the less-than-seminal notion that trees are now suddenly fun to watch. Well they're not. They're trees.

A member of my family recently picked this up, and I watched it today.Even though I'd been warned, before viewing this movie, that this was low standard, none of what I'd been told prepared me for just how poor this was. I've seen a number of low budget movies in my time, but this one has to be just about the worst one that I've yet come across.The actors came across as being merely amateurs, many of the scenes were clumsily shot and as for plot there was barely any of it.Despite early warning signs, I continued to watch the movie. As this is supposed to be an epic adventure production, I was sure that there would at least have to be some action worth seeing. However there wasn't even that! The overall impression I had was that the film makers started this off with a few ideas in mind, but then abandoned most of these later. A movie that I can only describe as being laughable at best.

Don't waste your time. 90% of the movie takes place in a "dark" forest and the heroes are talking about how to kill the dragon. The dragon looks okay and a lot more could have been done if there had been a script. If a bunch of teen agers had gotten together to make a movie it would have been more interesting. At least there would have been more action and some comedy relief. This movie took itself too seriously, and the characters spent most of their time philosophizing about class, duty, etc. Boring in any movie, but this kind of movie is by definition supposed to be exciting. Early in the movie, the princess is offered the chance to kill one of the hated "Dark elves", and is unable to do it. Later we find out that its not because she feels pity, but rather because she "doesn't" feel pity. She doesn't want to "feed the creature her bloodlust". What? Yeah, me too...Don't waste your time or money!!! Just say no!!!

My family sat to watch this movie and were so terribly disappointed that we couldn't sit through the whole movie. Awful acting and even worse special effects. The cast of yet unknown actors and actresses will remain unknown after a performance like this one. We love the genre and sit and watch LOTR and others like it over and over again. I do not expect every movie caring this type of plot to be great but this was substandard even by the lowest of expectations. We recently watched Eragon and were pleasantly surprised. A cast of little known actors { save Jeremy Irons } was a good movie with proper special effects and decent acting.