Dragon Wars - Comments on the Movie

My brother and I went to see the movie Dragon Wars. He liked it and I didn't. If he sends me a review, I will post it. These are my comments.

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The main problem that I have with this movie is that it bored me. There were very nice visual effects, but I can get visual effects for free on my computer... AND visual effects are to be expected in any sort of monster movie. We can pretty much make anything look extremely real, so special effects do not impress me unless they are 'stunning.'

the movie starts with a somewhat lengthy narrative to introduce the 'situation.' Later in the movie, the history of the serpentine feud is related by the wise old sage. Although this narration has flashback scenes to go along with it, it is still a narration. About this time, I was starting to feel rushed. There was a LOT of story... a lot of INTERESTING story rushed along in this manner. There was also a lot that probably should have been explained in THIS narrative. Who exactly was the evil general leading the dark forces for the bad imoogi? Why was he leading them? What did he expect to gain? Where did he get his army, and his saurian mounts? While I watched the immense horde of dark soldiers on their dinosaur mounts launching rocket attacks against a small Korean village, I wondered why this dark general didn't continue on to take over the world. Or, maybe, all this horde was in some way tied to the evil imoogi... but where they came from and where they went will remain a mystery to me... maybe I missed it in the narrative.

Return to modern day Los Angeles for the D-War to continue. and there, I have several problems with just the way the movie seemed to be edited. There were scenes that just ended in what seemed to be critical parts. One was when the dark general first visits the old sage's (Jack's) antique shop. The old sage says "Ah, Lord Balax (sp)..." the scene pretty much stops after the initial greeting, the audience never sees what happens inside the Antique shop. this is important, because the evil general seems to have taken over the shop and from the relics there resurrects his saurian/dragon evil soldier army. I would have like to have seen how the evil general ousted the mystic kung-fu master Jack from the shop. I'd also like to know why Jack hadn't long centuries ago destroyed the scolls and makic staues that would become the evili legion. There is another scene where the comic news cameraman Bruce asks the reincarnated hero Ethan if he believes all the Dragon stuff, and the scene switches to something else. I think that Ethan's answer to that question was important.

Another problem I have with more than one scene is that the bad imoogi had the girl trapped at least twice, and instead of snapping her up to gain ultimate power from the yi yoo Joo, he roars for about a minute allowing opportunity for her to get away again or for others to resue her. I understand that this is needed for the movie to have suspense and to keep moving, but once is enough. Granted, this sounds like I am picking nits, but there are enough nits to suggest total infestation... I think that I am only asking for the movie to complete important scenes, explain what the magical fantastic stuff is doing there and not just have things happen because it looks cool.... Oh, and why did the good imoogi wait until the very end to make an appearance.. they could have used his help in that battle for Los Angeles....

I give D-Wars a Thumbs down... I didn't like it...