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(1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 46% Rotten Page   1   C "Smothered by its own solemnity."   AboutFilm.com   Carlo Cavagna 2/4 "The movie is cold, miscalculated and hollow, and aside from a few isolated scenes of genuine excitement, it's also rather dreary."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 2.5/4 "...McConaughey goes for broke and turns this guy into an amalgam of every hard-nosed soldier previously committed to celluloid."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "A summertime fun monster blockbuster B- film for the kid inside us that never grew up."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "The premise of Reign of Fire is an exciting one that, ultimately, does not translate into an exciting film."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2.5/4 "The story is undeniably cheesy (its one-male-dragon plot point more so) but the film's set pieces (see the killer skydiving sequence) more than deliver, as does McConaughey."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez 2.5/4 "When the fire burns out, we’ve only come face-to-face with a couple dragons and that’s where the film ultimately fails."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress D+ "We never get the feel that this is a monumental conflict with nothing less than the human species at stake."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov D+ "A Jaws ripoff no less ludicrous than Orca-Killer Whale... not only silly but narratively muddy and visually murky."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "This is the film that the American Godzilla could have been, but wasn't."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Matthew McConaughey takes the movie up a notch with his fabulously over-the-top performance"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Reign of Fire is the schoolyard bully who used to beat the crap out of you during breaks: it is big, loud, dumb and never explains itself."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 4/5 "Humans-vs.-Dragons apocalyptic action film is a blast of pulpy, pop-mythic fun."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/4 "Matthew McConaughey tries, and fails, to control the screen with swaggering machismo and over-the-top lunacy."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 5/10 "I realized that no matter how fantastic Reign of Fire looked, its story was making no sense at all."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 2.5/4 "From the moment he appears on screen, McConaughey seems physically and behaviorally transformed from what we’ve seen in the past."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman 4/10 "Despite the conventional military spin on the old kill the dragon story, the film never really succeeds or goes far enough in being either a taut action thriller or purposefully over the top camp."   Screen It!   Jim Judy 6/10 "This is supposed to be a 'dragon movie', man...show me more dragons, dammit!"   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 5/10 "Wouldn't you have thought that a studio about to spend over $90,000,000 on a movie would have begun with a script instead of a few special effects?"   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "Too bad someone didn't light a fire under the writers, director, and actors."   Light Views   John Larsen 6/10 "Good enough to make viewers a lot less leery of the whole post-apocalyptic future genre after The Postman."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 5/5 "Reign of Fire will likely reign over the box office."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 2.5/4 "If "Reign of Fire" could have spared a few more bucks to pump up the thrills and spent a little longer working out the story's ending, it might have become one of the highest grossing films of the summer."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2/4 "The actual movie fails to do justice to its premise. "   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B- "This is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action, cheese, ham and cheek (as well as a serious debt to The Road Warrior), but it feels like unrealized potential"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 7.5/10 "La carta fuerte de este filme reside en su poderoso trabajo de computadora y en sus fastuosos efectos especiales. Nada más."   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 1.5/4 "Given the choice between the humans in this movie and the dragons, I’m rooting for the cockroaches."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik 2.5/4 "Mankind has fixated on dragon genocide as one last little moral victory"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "Full of tantalizing hints of the fascinating mythopoeic movie this could have been."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "Click to read review"   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina B "This testosterone-laden tale takes no prisoners. It is full of firey action."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 4/5 "Director Rob Bowman obviously realizes that he’s working on a simple popcorn flick, yet still does everything he can to make Reign of Fire a quality popcorn flick."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg C+ "The screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "Dungeons and Dragons" fantasy with modern military weaponry..."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 2.5/5 "It's a lot of smoke, but too few mirrors."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 3/4 "good entertainment"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson 3/4 "The process of figuring out the moment the movie re-imagines the Battle of the Bulge with a bare-chested guardsman and a pike is more than worth the price of admission."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 7/10 Read review   Modamag.com   Brian Orndorf B Read review   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 1/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 5/10 Read review   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper 4/10 Read review   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger Read review   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs Read review   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery Read review   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline  (1 - 44) of 44 OFCS Rating: 46% Rotten Page   1