1996 · fantasy · action · adventure
DragonHeart
Directed by Rob Cohen1h 43m1996
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.
Our read: DragonHeart (1996) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive fantasy · action · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme fantasy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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How DragonHeart feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want classic 90s fantasy with Sean Connery voicing a witty dragon.”
Skip it tonight — Cheesy CGI and medieval tropes will pull you out every scene.
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