Films like Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God.

Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005) reads as Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Bionicle: The Legend Reborn (2009) poster
1. Bionicle: The Legend Reborn2009

Keeps the clean studio craft and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Knight Rider (2008) poster
2. Knight Rider2008

Keeps the clean studio craft and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) poster
3. Green Lantern: First Flight2009

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014) poster
4. Mythica: A Quest for Heroes2014

Keeps the clean studio craft and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017) poster
5. Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire2017

Keeps the clean studio craft and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015) poster
6. The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power2015

Keeps the clean studio craft and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Beauty and the Beast (2010) poster
7. Beauty and the Beast2010

Keeps the clean studio craft and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008) poster
8. The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior2008

Keeps the clean studio craft and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Beyond Loch Ness (2008) poster
9. Beyond Loch Ness2008

Keeps the clean studio craft and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Mythica: The Darkspore (2015) poster
10. Mythica: The Darkspore2015

Keeps the clean studio craft and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Cerberus (2005) poster
11. Cerberus2005

Keeps the clean studio craft and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Lost Future (2010) poster
12. The Lost Future2010

Keeps the clean studio craft and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

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