teralitha The main plot of the story is interesting. I would give it a 10 except for some of its flaws. First, the bad.1. The early interaction between Berek and Valarius was kinda lame. I know they wanted to portray weakness in the leader of the quest for later emotional points, but that scene was just lame. They should have gone about it differently. Otherwise Berek played his role very well.2. The cleric, Dorian. His part to play in the movie is almost non existent. And the actor playing him was kinda... blah. The only thing he does in the whole movie is bang a hammer, banish spectres, and make a weak fire shield before dying. They should have had a better actor and added more to his role before killing him off, which I didn't mind.3. Malora. I liked her acting for most of it, but the early spell casting scenes were a bit fake looking.4. The movie was too short in my opinion. It needed more. A really good dungeon and dragons movie with a good story would really need like 3-4 hours. Why they cut things out I don't understand, and didn't fix inconsistencies.5. In the bonus features they show the character stats as they would be from the game. And... there are inconsistencies. Berek, Dorian, Lux are all lvl 7. I don't recall seeing Nihms level or Omaleen(elf wizard) But she had to be at least lvl 10 or 11 to have 2 teleport spells memorized. Berek also was listed as having 19 strength(naturally?) They said he was wearing bracers of titan strength, which I believe would be something like 25(Godlike) His character never once was portrayed as having this godlike strength, Nor was did the actor even look remotely muscular to have a natural 19. Malora class and levels and actual profession are confusing. She was listed as a lvl 5 mage/level 1 cleric of obad hai. This would mean she was dual class, and according to the rules she could never gain any more levels as a mage. Yet, at the end of the movie, she was added to the council of mages. Her whole story seemed to revolve around the idea that clerics of ancient Turan wielded elemental magics(like mages) and it was some long lost secret that apparently clerics(finest healers in the land) at the temple of Obad hai had no knowledge of. So basically the writers got mages and clerics mixed up in the back story.The good. I like the action music. I liked most of the acting. I liked most of the story. I liked the emotional drama. I liked how they stayed as true as possible to the game. Overall I like the movie and have watched it many times and will watch it many more times. Im glad to own it.

dreamdemon-1 .... however, from a D&D point of view this only display how a bunch of noobs would handle a stereotypical quest. As an experienced Dungeon Master I couldn't stop laughing for most of the movie and when I did, it was only to underline moments when a competent DM would cut it to "the party dies". The group is so terribly incompetent and all the D&D plot devices so ineptly used that all in all there's no redeeming quality to it at all.Its only viable tagline would be "an incompetent player's understanding of the D&D manuals" but that still doesn't excuse the lack of any acting talent whatsoever and the 80's flavor of special effects.I give it a 2 only to point out it's better than the first movie.

wyldcat2500 Too many complaints about this movie IMO. This movie was fun to watch. It was like seeing a live action version of a very "standard" D&D module. I'm NOT saying it was good or stellar movie making, I'm just saying people need to have a little "fun" with a movie. Had this become a series on sci-fi people would watch it. It's no worse than any sci-fi original movie and a lot more entertaining than TNG doing the same kind of crap on the holo-deck. Besides, the chicks were hot, the cleric actually died doing something foolish, our hero is good looking and a believable leader, and how can you not like the smart ass rogue? Learn to have some fun people.

Paul Andrews Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God starts as 30 Centuries old living dead villain Damodar (Bruce Payne) finds a magical black orb which will allow him to awaken an evil Dragon God & gain revenge on the town where his enemies came from. The town finds out what Damodar is up to & quickly compile a team of assorted warriors to regain the Orb lead by Berek (Mark Dymond), there is a female barbarian named Lux (Ellie Chidzey), the wise cleric Dorian (Steven Elder), the rogue Nim (Tim Stren) & the Elf wizard Ormaline (Lucy Gaskell). These five brave warriors seek out to capture the Orb, even though they have no idea where it is, how to get to it, how to defeat Damodar or how to use the Orb itself, should be a piece of cake then...This German, British, Lithuanian & American co-production was co-written & directed by Gerry Lively & is absolutely awful in every way. The script unbelievably took three people to write it, Lively, Robert Kimmel & Brian Rudnick which is just shocking really. For a start it's a total bore from start to finish, I had lost interest in anything that was happening withing an hour. The storyline sucks & features too many character's with stupid names which I personally found hard to remember & hard to follow who was talking about who, seriously it's hard to relate a seemingly random word like Valerious or Magmin to a minor bit part character's. Everything is a cliché of the worst sort, I mean a strong warrior, a magician, a cleric? Please, for a film which potentially had limitless possibilities & no boundaries but the human imagination Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God is really predictable, dull & unoriginal. Most of the running time is spent with our 'heroes' randomly walking through very European looking forests before they reach their goal where they have to solve some lame puzzles that look like they were rejects from The Crystal Maze (1990 - 1995), please do yourself a favour & avoid this one at all costs.Director Lively does nothing to improve the film as a spectacle, it's utterly bland & forgettable with some truly terrible CGI computer effects. Now if you have millions & millions of dollars to spend on your CGI then it can look absolutely brilliant like Starship Troopers (1997) or Transformers (2007) for instance, while on the other hand if you have a few dollars & a couple of buttons to spend then your CGI is going to turn out like the CGI in Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God which can be summed in in one word, crap. The dragons in this film look like they belong in a 90's computer game, seriously they are so bad it's embarrassing. A badly animated computer game graphic interacting with real actors & a real background just looks so bad & this is a good case in point. The action scenes are lame & poorly choreographed & the blue monster thing that speaks to Damodar with badly fitting teeth looks terrible as do the flying creature things & the hilarious looking lava boy.With a supposed budget of about $15,000,000 one has to say this had a decent amount of money thrown at it & one is entitled to expect something better than this piece of crap for 15 big ones. The special effects are terrible, the costumes look stupid, it's obviously shot in some forest in Lithuania somewhere, the action scenes are lame & there's no big names in the cast either so where did the money go? The acting is terrible, everyone really does look embarrassed to be part of this.Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God is an awful film, I've never played the Dungeons & Dragons RPG but if it's as boring & as bad as this then I doubt I'm missing anything. Everything about this is just awful, please stay away from it at all costs. Watch the original Dungeons & Dragons (2000) again instead, at least that's better than this.