One Paragraph Review: Reign of Fire

This is a movie of ups and downs which ends up as better-than-average action entertainment. It gets points for forgoing the traditional "dragon movie" themes and setting in favor of something a little more creative, but loses points for hokey dialogue and somewhat mashed together story. McConaughey fits his part nicely, but Christian Bale looks stoned and is underutilized and some girl named Izabella Scorupco fills the unfortunate role of token pretty blond girl. The whole point of this movie is the novelty setting of "post-apocalyptic future society meets savage, badass dragons," which I admit is pretty neat. In the end, this is actually a B-grade Sci-Fi Channel Weekend movie dressed up with $100 million dollars, which makes it wasteful, but still entertaining.