Fantastic!

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I hate writing too long. It is a waste to ruin a Korean movie. Even the name of a movie is a shame. I hope there is no one who wants to see a movie just for poster. It is the life that does not look good.

I'd heard once that the director of Dragon Wars made his film because he wanted to prove that Korea could produce a summer blockbuster on the same level as the Americans.That, unfortunately, is true. About the time the movie hits its halfway point, it becomes an all-out special effects bonanza that tries desperately to emulate the level of insanity and destruction that Michael Bay is known for.And if that's all you're coming for, I suppose it's not the worst thing in the world.But it's everything surrounding the ridiculous "war" scene that's the problem. This movie doesn't have a plot so much as it has a collection of loosely-connected scenes buffered by multiple and repeated dream sequences. Can't understand what's going on? That's fine, it's probably just another dream sequence. Still can't understand what's going on? Well, welcome to Dragon Wars.It's best to just not question it and go with the flow, because the movie isn't going to make any effort to help you understand why any given thing is happening. Given that the movie is apparently based on an ancient Korean legend, perhaps it's just something lost in translation, but if that's the case, there's still no excuse for making it so incomprehensible. Characters come and go without any explanation as to who they were or why they were relevant, and random things just seem to happen that are hand waved away as "Oh, I guess that was just magic."I've somehow ended up seeing this movie three times now, and only by reading the plot synopsis by people on the internet (who are likely familiar with the original legend) did any of it begin to make any sense whatsoever.At the very least, you could consider this to be a poor adaptation of whatever Korean legend it is technically based upon. But you can't pretend it's a good movie. Not in any way shape or form.

This movie is just terrible from start to finish. I am going to spoil it for some folks. Where do I begin? Well, first of all, the storyline makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Basically, it focuses on some ritual where a young woman has some birthmark and when she turns 20, she must be sacrificed to a giant snake in order for that snake to be turned into a dragon. There are two giant snakes. Each one is supported by a clan. The good one is named Imugi and the evil one is named Buraki. Our Protagonist, Ethan Kendrick meets and falls in love with a 19 year old girl who bares this birthmark. Supposedly, Sarah is part of this so-called "ritual".Throughout the whole movie, Ethan and Sarah are basically just running away from a giant snake and armed lizards. Nothing really happens in the movie and when something does happen it just seems pointless.At times, the plot feels unorganized and unfocused. For instance, Our protagonist has a flashback to when he was a child and opens this box and a light comes out of it. What did that have to do with anything? Also, there is this fat guy, unrelated to the story, who witnesses Buraki and goes and tells everyone about what he saw. Of course they think he's crazy, so they tie him up. Again, what did that have to do with anything? In the final act, Sarah turns 20 and she and Ethan eventually get spotted by Buraki's clan and are taken to their place. I will admit the setting and tone here is pretty neat and impressive. It's like the creators of the film put all of their effort on this one scene and then just got lazy while making the rest of the film. It's like they made the whole movie just for this final scene.Moving on, Ethan and Sarah are tied up and Sarah is about to be sacrificed to Buraki while Ethan is powerless to stop it. Then, out of nowhere, Imugi shows up and the two giant snakes have a showdown. Ethan eventually frees himself and Sarah. Sarah then realizes that the only way that Buraki can be defeated is for Sarah to be sacrificed to Imugi. In doing so, Sarah controls an orb thing and gets Imugi to bite the orb and then Sarah dies. Imugi is then transformed into a dragon and destroys Buraki. Imugi leaves and our hero Ethan is left stranded in the desert. The end. Yep, that's the whole movie right there. I just saved you 90 minutes of your life.Also, the CGI effects are downright awful even for 2007 standards. Let's just say that Sony PS1 and Nintendo 64 had better graphics than this.On a positive note, I liked the concept of the film. I think the name "Dragon Wars" deserves a better movie.

When elderly antiques dealer Jack (Robert Forster) fakes a heart attack so that he can be alone with young Ethan Kendrick (Cody Arens), and proceeds to tell him a bizarre story about how they have a special connection, the boy doesn't turn on his heels screaming 'stranger danger', but listens attentively, despite the tale being virtually incomprehensible. Hell, he doesn't even get a Werther's for being such a good boy.Weird old Jack's story goes something like this (possibly): every half a millennium, a Yuh-Yi-Joo is born who has the power to transform an Imoogi into a powerful celestial dragon. 500 years ago, evil Imoogi Buraki, aided by his Atrox army, a swarm of Bulcos and squadron of mighty dawdlers (I kid ye not), was narrowly thwarted by the Yuh Ji Yoo's appointed protector. Soon, Buraki will return to seek out the latest Yuh-Yi-Joo and it is up to Ethan, the new protector, to ensure that it doesn't succeed.Fifteen years later and Ethan (now played by Jason Behr with floppy hair) has all but forgotten his strange encounter with the old man (probably on account of his story being so crap), but gradually begins to understand his destiny when the massive serpent turns up to trash the city in its hunt for a mysterious girl named Sarah (Amanda Brooks).Written and directed by Korean Hyung-rae Shim, but starring an all-American cast, D-War is a colossal mess, a big-budget CGI-packed monster movie that throws an awful lot at the screen (including an elephant being eaten by a snake and a huge oriental dragon) but still somehow manages to be about as exciting as an episode of The Waltons: the script is all over the place, virtually every performance is diabolical (although you have to feel for the actors wrestling with such lousy dialogue), and the huge-scale action scenes, although visually impressive, completely fail to engage the viewer due to the sheer inanity of proceedings.