Reign of Fire

Quality: * * * Acceptability:-1

RATING: PG-13

STARRING: Matthew McConaughey Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler DIRECTOR: Rob Bowman

DISTRIBUTOR: Touchstone Pictures/Buena Vista (Disney/Hollywood Pictures)

GENRE: Science Fiction/Action Adventure INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults

SUMMARY At the beginning of Reign of Fire, 12-year-old Quinn awakens a nasty, fire-breathing dragon hibernating underground in London. Soon, the dragon population explodes to millions, and their flaming rampage turns cities to ashes and humans to food. Twenty years later, the earth is a post-apocalyptic disaster. Quinn has survived to adulthood and shepherds a group of half-starved people hiding out in an ancient castle. Their life is one of constant fear and vigilance. No one knows how theyll survive. Soon a dangerous looking "dragon slayer" with a small army appears. Should Quinn trust his crazy schemes?

Reign of Fire is a combination of a Road Warrior movie, Aliens and a King Arthur movie. It's a classic monster movie where the audience feels that at any moment the heroes may be roasted alive or eaten at any moment Despite several strong profanities, the movie has no sex or nudity, and the director does a good job of holding the gore to a minimum, while keeping the suspense to a maximum. The movie lacks a God-centered attitude, however, so it deserves a caution for older Children. Nevertheless, Reign of Fire is an entertaining adventure story. CONTENT: Light humanist worldview with brief talk about evolution, plus some morally uplifting elements about being a "white knight" and helping and protecting the community, especially children; 11 mostly mild exclamatory obscenities, four strong exclamatory profanities and one mild profanity; intense, strong story-driven combat with lots of man vs. dragon violence and explosions; upper male nudity; several scenes of drinking homemade liquor; smoking; and, some insults, disobeying orders, arrogance rebuked, confrontations between adults, and endangering the survival of a community.

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