Review #240: D-War (Dragon Wars)
So I never make “best of” lists at the end of the year because I don’t remember what came out when. I will say now, however, that this is the best movie of 2007. If you read the reviews on IMDB, you will see that nearly everyone thinks it’s terrible. In fact there are so many reviews that I’m sure people felt it was their duty to speak out against it. It’s true, the movie is chock full of bad acting, cliches and run-of-the-mill CG (which some people thought was good), but I think what is resposible for it being terrible also makes it terribly interesting. It’s a movie in english starring American actors but it was made for a South Koeran audience. That’s why the dialogue sounds like a program on Nick Jr. It’s slow and clear because it’s intended for an audience who’s primary language isn’t english.
The story’s not very complicated but when the back story was being told there were so many times i tuned out. Even the kid hearing the story kept saying “What do you mean?”
In a nutshell…Good serpants and bad serpants want the soul of this reincarnated chick to become big dragons. The bad one will destroy the world if he gets it. The bad one also has an army of magic dudes and huge lizards with lazers on their backs and flying mini-dragons and stuff. And while the bad dragon is so very prepared, the good dragon shows up at the end. What was he doing all this time? What a lazy good dragon. Or imoogo or whatever they call it in the film.
The battle scenes are pretty cool. Shit gets fucked up and you can tell by the way the crowds run and scream that this was made by an asian director.