Dragon Fighter (2003)

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

A lot of fun.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

there are those movies that are bad they are funny, then there are those where you scream "i want that one and a half hours of my life back"...thats pretty much what this is.dean cain tries to be an actor but fails. the sfx are really bad (repeated scenes and rocks that look like falling paper) and the fake plastic guns that have torches taped on them...the split screen effect used to show multiple things happening at once is just terrible.this movie cant even be used as one of those simple night entertainers, its just that badif i could go negative ratings, i would

First, I love horrible direct to video SciFi movies. Dragon Fighter has all of the typical SciFi standards (crazy scientist, hot chicks, bad cgi, absurd dialogue, predictable plot). Dragon Fighter is not one of the greats bad SciFi greats(that's reserved for Frankenfish), but this film does have a few things that separate it from the pack.*Dean Cain. Yes, he can actually act and is actually quite likable. Despite having to speak some ridiculous dialogue, he does his best and makes it work.*Editing. During the more boring parts of the movie, they do some fancy editing to show the scene from multiple angles. This actually keeps the movie moving along in a much more interesting way.While the deaths aren't particularly creative, this movie did a reasonably good job of entertaining me. Give it a whirl if you love this kind of crap as much as I do.

I caught this movie on Sci-Fi before heading into work. If you've any interest in seeing Dean Cain dive and avoid being enveloped in flames at least a dozen times, this movie is for you. If that doesn't peak your interest, well, I'm afraid you'll wish that YOU were the one about to be enveloped in flames, because this movie is pretty bad. The acting, to begin with, is awful, awful, awful. The characters are all completely obnoxious, and the dialogue is worse than your typical Z-grade, Sci-Fi movie. Towards the end, the movie began to remind me of 'Hollow Man' (complete with escape via elevator shaft), except with a Dragon, not a naked, invisible man. Unlike other similar flicks, however, this one wasn't even awesomely bad...it was just plain bad.

Not quite, Dean, more one of those old creature features from the 1950's. This may be a totally predictable film but I found it quite enjoyable as a throw-back to the old square-jaw, thud & blunder movies of the past.Yes,the plot is the old 'trapped in a contained space where the hunters become the hunted' etc and perhaps all done by the numbers. But it's played straight and the cast do well, flashes of humour, the dialogue is OK and Dean Cain makes a reasonable action hero.It's fine for what it is, a dumb monster movie that passes the time and moves along without becoming too boring or outstaying it's welcome. The multi-split screen bits weren't as annoying as I first thought they would be. The CGI effects were pretty decent too, you can see from repeat shots of the dragon that both time and money was at a premium but it still looks quite effective.Not a classic of the horror/creature genre by any stretch of the imagination but as lightweight popcorn entertainment, I felt it did pretty much what it set out to do.