Dragonfight (1990)

That was an excellent one.

A different way of telling a story

Blistering performances.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Me and my friends rented this baby just to have something to watch while we drank beer and lied to each other about female conquests of the past... The party ended pretty early since we started to watch the movie. Obviously we had missed the "first part" or.. because we didn't understand anything! My most vivid memory was a line from the film: Two guys are standing in the middle of nowhere. One of them says something like "There ísn't a living soul out here for a hundred miles except us"... and in the background a motorcyclist are clearly visible the whole time. In a normal movie, that would have mean that someone was out to get the guys or.. well, anything! In this movie it truly didn't mean anything. It just ..was...

This movie almost plays as a sequel as whoever wrote it seems to think you should know what is going on so he isn't going to take the time to explain it. The "plot" and I am using the term loosely is I am guessing a bunch of rich people in corporations make bets based on two guys fighting to the death. Sounds simple enough, but wait...somehow one of the warriors is able to come back from the dead. How? Who knows...it has something to do with this gal who I think was some kind of sorceress. This is never really touched upon much, but hey she is cute and I think that is why she is stuck in this one. Nothing much to be said for the fighting as it involves Robert Z'Dar and some other guy. When I first saw this movie I only caught the end and wondered why the heck Z'Dar was dressed as a knight and he was going around killing people (his character goes berserk or something and starts killing more than just the guy he is fighting). I thought this was some movie about time travel, which would have been better than what it was really about. You occasionally flash to these board members watching the fight and other stuff...it does have a rather catchy tune to it and it is rather short so it wasn't all bad. As I have said though it plays like a sequel to something.

This must be the worst movie ever made in the film history... It has no connected story. You don´t understand what the film is about... You´re totally confused.. I think there´s some guys wandering around in the desert looking för each other (like, they want to kill each other)... At the same time there´s some dressed up, fancy-looking guys sitting in a building in a city. They all watch when those other guys try to kill each other. One thing that I don´t understand is that: How is it possible to place all that flying, non-flying cameras in the desert where those two gladiators are located??? Please tell me!!So, if you want a good laugh and some time of thinking why they ever made this film....Then see it!!!Michael Paré does a very nice work as an actor!!! YEEHHOO!!

After seeing films like "Glen or Glenda" or "Terror in the midnight sun", you may think you´ve seen the worst film ever made, but "Dragonfight" really wins that "price". The first films I mentioned, like many of the "bad film classics", have got some charm in just being bad, but "Dragonfight" hasn´t. It´s got worthless actors, a crappy story and an even crappier screenplay. And then I haven´t even mentioned the "special effects" and the "stunts". Commonly, when you watch a film known to be bad, you don´t mind about those things mentioned above, because they are what you expect them to be and you can laugh at them, but in "Dragonfight" it seems like the crew thought that they were doing a great film and that´s what making this film so extremely bad. So if you get your hands on this film, view it so that you can tell your friends that you have seen THE bad one. After that, burn it.