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Dragon Wars: D-War (2007) poster

2007 · fantasy · drama · horror

Dragon Wars: D-War

Directed by Shim Hyung-rae1h 30m2007

Ethan learns he carries the spirit of a warrior who battled dragons in 16th-century Korea -- and one day he'll find a tattooed girl carrying the spirit of that warrior's beloved. Years later, he meets Sarah and dragons soon descend on Los Angeles seeking out the two souls of the ancient lovers.

Our read: Dragon Wars: D-War (2007) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive fantasy · drama · horror entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Neutral, breathless, measured fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.

ElsewhereIMDb3.526kRT28%Metacritic33
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • inventive
  • cold
  • epic-stakes
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DNA · twelve axes

How Dragon Wars feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want gloriously absurd dragon mayhem and so-bad-it's-great energy.”

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
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Skip it tonight — Skip if shoddy CGI and incoherent plotting will kill your goodwill fast.

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