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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: Reign of Fire, like a lot of films these days, is a bunch of eye-popping effects in search of a plot. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Falls neatly into the category of Good Stupid Fun. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Reign of Fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond Road Warrior, it owes enormous debts to Aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: For all its great potential, Reign of Fire turns out to be just another bughunt movie -- a disappointingly talky, haphazard one. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I'm not going to argue that Reign of Fire is a good movie, but it's terribly entertaining it's kind of a classic camp film, so I'm giving it thumbs up. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Suspension of disbelief is one thing but this movie asks viewers to suspend logic and right reason as well. Read more
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune: With McConaughey in an entirely irony-free zone and Bale reduced mainly to batting his sensitive eyelids, there's not enough intelligence, wit or innovation on the screen to attract and sustain an older crowd. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: It has a jamming B-picture buzz -- the kind of swift filmmaking and high spirits that have been missing from movies for a while. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Reign of Fire is basically one great set piece surrounded by thickets of iron filings, oily hair and knotty-pine acting. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: As the rich drama plays out, Reign of Fire proves to be a thoroughly taut, well-considered fable. Read more
Scott Steinberg, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Good clean post-apocalypse fire-breathing fun. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: No one but the performers' family and friends will be coming to Reign of Fire for the acting. It's the dragons ... that carry the picture. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A more enjoyable neo-dragon flick than 1981's Dragonslayer, with its lesser effects, or 1996's Dragonheart, with its soft heart for the monsters. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The season could do with more grinning, spinning, un-self-important, happy-to-be-B throwback movies like this one. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Reign of Fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise, but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Reign of Fire is a good show, hampered by the gnawing suspicion that it could have been better. Read more
Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly: Despite a few epic revelations, we never get a real sense of living, breathing dragons. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is the film that the American Godzilla could have been, but wasn't. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: One regards Reign of Fire with awe. What a vast enterprise has been marshaled in the service of such a minute idea. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The advantage of a postapocalyptic setting is that it can be made on the cheap. Any rock pile will do for a set. Reign of Fire has the disadvantage of also looking cheap. Read more
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: It's hard to imagine a better futuristic flying dragon movie than this, if one can imagine such a thing at all. However, while we wait for such a comparison, we could probably do a lot worse than Reign Of Fire. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The filmmakers might have benefited from more sleep before penning the script. Read more
Joe Leydon, Variety: An uncommonly exciting and satisfying post-apocalyptic popcorn flick. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Peaks early with a vertiginous dogfight; thereafter, spotty CGI and a bamboozling plot conspire toward a colossal anticlimax. Read more