Here is a case where they got good actors in Dennis Quaid as the dragon slayer and Sean Connery doing the voice of the main dragon, but the story really was not very good. It has its high points, but to many low as well. The story of a really annoying prince turned king who is evil and the knight who blames the evil portion of him on a dragon that gave part of his heart to save him is just not all that good. The highlight of this movie comes in the form of the fight between the knight and dragon and their subsequent teaming to help the dragon slayer make a little money. Then the movie goes south again as the dragon is captured and we have just a typical movie without the title character the dragon which makes for a very anti-climatic last portion of the film that ended about how you would expect it to. The effects are okay, not quite on par with a movie such as Jurassic Park, but the dragon looks real enough. I am guessing they tried to keep him out of the movie as much as possible to keep the costs down, unfortunately this hinders the film and it is not as good as it could have been. Still it is worth a look.
Review of DragonHeart
