The screening times conflicted, and I had to choose between seeing "Reign of Fire" or "Stuart Little 2." Naturally, I chose
the movie about dragons over the one about a talking mouse. As movies about dragons go, "Reign of Fire" is a pretty good one. It's reasonably smart, rather imaginative and very hard-working. It's probably as believable as a movie about dragons could be, and the dragons look real. It's better than "Dragonslayer," but not quite as good as "Pete's Dragon." I enjoyed it. It is set in a ruined 2020, 12 years after dragons suddenly appeared in London and scorched their way to the top of the food chain. They live on ash, which is why they burn everything they see; they don't care if humans are in the way, and they're not opposed to eating them, too. The few clusters of people left alive have taken shelter in ruined castles and underground fortresses.
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