2002 · action · sci-fi · fantasy
Reign of Fire (2002)
Directed by Rob Bowman1h 41m2002
In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit -- leading a clan of survivors to hunt down the King of the Dragons -- has much at stake: His mother was killed by a dragon, but his love is still alive.
Our read: Reign of Fire (2002) (2002) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
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