ma-cortes
This silly but entertaining B-grade movie tells about some fire-breathing , meteoric dragons emerge from the space and hurtling toward earth begin setting fire to everything , establishing dominance over world and land in Carpathia ,1410 . After destruction his castle , the king Fastrad ( a tyrannical villain well played by John Rhys Davies ), along with his underling (Tony Amendola) are going to shelter at castle of Wenesbury ruled by a good king ( Hansson ) . They meet a hunter archer named Silas ( Maxwell Caufield ) lead them to the castle . There , the hunter is taken prisoner . One time is freed , Silas team up and band together with the king's daughter ( Angela Boris , a Playboy girl), an Asian fighter named Ling ( W.Park ), a woman warrior ,among others and helped by a large crossbow , confronting the weird dragons monsters . They suddenly find themselves the only people can save the kingdom battling the giant dragons .This is an amazing story that attempts at creating a glimmer fantasy but is compromised by borrowing elements from ¨ Dragonheart , Dragon slayer and Reign of fire ¨, and other latter day movies and belonging to Dragons sub-genre. Film blends adventures, intrigue , battles , exciting action with convincingly computer generator FX , bringing the dragons to the life and is quite entertaining . Work on dragons made by CG sometimes seem authentic, but is also noted its computer realization . The only thing that let it down from this perspective , was that some of the parts in between the dragons fighting were a little dull . It's a moderate success accounting for seeing a direct for video. The picture is produced by Philiph J. Roth, he usually manages his films to write , produce , music and direct and still make them funny , thoughtful and most all highly amusing ,he currently resides in Sofia, Bulgaria and owns a film studio where has been filmed this one . The motion picture is professionally directed by Stephen Furst , he maximize efficiency of movements and shot , he's a habitual secondary actor ( Babylone 5 ) and newcomer as director . It's a bemusing film but is specifically appointed to young people, in spite of a brief nudism scenes. Rating : Passable and entertaining.
chris-boy1
this movie was , without a doubt, the worst movie i have ever seen. you know that point that the movie is so bad that you have to finish it just so you know how it ends so it doesn't bug you and you are forced to rent it again? well this movie is beyond that point. me and my friend rented it and it was so bad that we stopped it about a half hour from the end. we now keep a list of the worst movies ever and this is easily on top with no contender. i saw the movie a couple of years ago so i don't remember what made it so bad but i do remember that the acting was just plain horrible. the only way for you to comprehend how bad this movie is, is to see it but so help me god please DO NOT RENT OR SEE THIS MOVIE i cannot stress that enough.
Paul Andrews
Dragon Storm starts in outer space as various meteorites hurtle towards Earth, cut to 'Carpathia 1190 A.D.' as these meteorites land they hatch & large fire-breathing Dragons emerge. A messenger (Vlado Nikolov) informs King Fastrad (John Rhys-Davies) whose Castle is attacked by the Dragons & his people slaughtered, King Fastrad escapes with Theldag (Tony Amendola) his bodyguard who hire a huntsman named Silas (Maxwell Caulfield) to take them to the Castle of King Wednesbury (John Hansson) for protection. Once there Fastrad tells Wednesbury about the Dragon threat that threatens to wipe out his kingdom. King Wednesbury orders his mage Remmegar (Richard Wharton) & Silas to set up a team of Dragonslayers to seek out & destroy the alien Dragons...Directed by Stephen Furst there is little in Dragon Storm to recommend. The script by Patrick Phillips & Sam Wells is basic, sloppily paced & plotted & commits the unforgivable crime of all but neglecting the Dragons in favour of annoying comedy relief character's & an uninteresting sub-plot about overthrowing King Wednesbury. It's rather predictable & is less than exciting to watch. I would have liked to have seen the Dragons eat some people, one Dragon bites someone's head off at the end but that's it, they just use they're fire breath to wreck havoc which becomes boring very quickly. Also what's with the bizarre notion that Dragons come from outer space?!Director Furst ruins anything the film might have had going for it, the action scenes are so lacklustre & unexciting it's hard to believe anyone could have made such a mess of it. The character's just stand there looking very uncomfortable, almost as if their not sure as what their meant to be doing. The fights & Dragon battles are tedious in the extreme & these Dragons sure do die easily & don't even seem to put up much of a fight.Dragon Strom was made-for-TV, it was shot in Sofia, Bulgaria & had a budget of about $1,000,000. The whole thing has a cheap look about it although most of the CGI Dragon effects are actually pretty impressive which is a bit of a surprise, it's just a shame they aren't used to any great effect & the rest of the film is poor. The locations are obviously derelict run down tourist attractions. The acting is average at best.Dragon Storm isn't very good, it's cheap & doesn't provide much in the way of entertainment. Both Dragonheart (1996) & Reign of Fire (2002), big Budget Hollywood Dragon themed films, are far superior to Dragon Storm in every way. Worth a watch if you can catch it on TV for free & nothing else is on but it's not worth going out of your way or spending good money to secure a copy.
heroquestelf
This movie was bad. Just plain bad. Sci Fi has put out some bad stuff before (See Epoch--or rather don't) but this one is terrible. John Rhys-Davies was poorly cast as the villian (I suppose Sci Fi thought they could capitalize on his success from LOTR) and the movie has more action than plot (although that's not saying much).That being said, the good points: Tony Amendola. Known to most as "Bra'tac" from "Stargate: SG1", Tony does (arguably) the best acting job of any of the bunch. The CGI dragons are pretty cool, although the concept their creation is a bit of a stretch. The big selling point to me had to be Angel Boris as the princess. Yum.Aside from that, it's pretty much a sleeper.