I expected mediocre effects for this low budget film, but it turned out to be quite amazing. This was a thoroughly enjoyable fantasy action with some incredible action sequences. Plot flaw: in the beginning of the film the evil Buraki attacks a village in search of the girl born with a dragon-shaped tattoo. If they were hoping to find the girl alive, why did they first bomb the village and then searched for her? The chances were very good they could have killed her during the attack.Nevertheless, the film is a fast-paced joyride of thrilling action and incredible effects. The Atrox Army battle in Los Angeles towards the end is insanely entertaining and well on par with the Hollywood blockbusters.

This movie is just terrible from start to finish. I am going to spoil it for some folks. Where do I begin? Well, first of all, the storyline makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Basically, it focuses on some ritual where a young woman has some birthmark and when she turns 20, she must be sacrificed to a giant snake in order for that snake to be turned into a dragon. There are two giant snakes. Each one is supported by a clan. The good one is named Imugi and the evil one is named Buraki. Our Protagonist, Ethan Kendrick meets and falls in love with a 19 year old girl who bares this birthmark. Supposedly, Sarah is part of this so-called "ritual".Throughout the whole movie, Ethan and Sarah are basically just running away from a giant snake and armed lizards. Nothing really happens in the movie and when something does happen it just seems pointless.At times, the plot feels unorganized and unfocused. For instance, Our protagonist has a flashback to when he was a child and opens this box and a light comes out of it. What did that have to do with anything? Also, there is this fat guy, unrelated to the story, who witnesses Buraki and goes and tells everyone about what he saw. Of course they think he's crazy, so they tie him up. Again, what did that have to do with anything? In the final act, Sarah turns 20 and she and Ethan eventually get spotted by Buraki's clan and are taken to their place. I will admit the setting and tone here is pretty neat and impressive. It's like the creators of the film put all of their effort on this one scene and then just got lazy while making the rest of the film. It's like they made the whole movie just for this final scene.Moving on, Ethan and Sarah are tied up and Sarah is about to be sacrificed to Buraki while Ethan is powerless to stop it. Then, out of nowhere, Imugi shows up and the two giant snakes have a showdown. Ethan eventually frees himself and Sarah. Sarah then realizes that the only way that Buraki can be defeated is for Sarah to be sacrificed to Imugi. In doing so, Sarah controls an orb thing and gets Imugi to bite the orb and then Sarah dies. Imugi is then transformed into a dragon and destroys Buraki. Imugi leaves and our hero Ethan is left stranded in the desert. The end. Yep, that's the whole movie right there. I just saved you 90 minutes of your life.Also, the CGI effects are downright awful even for 2007 standards. Let's just say that Sony PS1 and Nintendo 64 had better graphics than this.On a positive note, I liked the concept of the film. I think the name "Dragon Wars" deserves a better movie.

Dragon Wars earned its 5-star rating for seeing to it that - (1) The pretty-haired pretty-boy, actor Jason Behr, as ass-wipe news-reporter, Ethan Kendrik, got (somewhat satisfactorily) roughed up and knocked around and, yes, even got his pretty-hair sufficiently mussed up, too (but not nearly enough for my liking).(2) Los Angeles got royally trashed by both the attacking monster-lizards, along with their allied reptilian friends, as well as by the blundering boys of the U.S. military in their seriously botched attempt at a near-hopeless counter-attack.(3) The final, completely over-the-top showdown that took place between the "good" Imoogi and, yes, the "bad" Imoogi was a real winner. And even though I've grown mighty jaded and blasé about C.G.I. effects, this particular battle-scene between good & bad was exceptionally impressive stuff, if you ask me.Putting all of Dragon Wars' crap aside (and, yes, there was plenty of that), this film actually did more than fulfill its promise when it came to delivering the goods on death and destruction done on a massive scale.And, like, isn't that why people watched this haywire movie? I mean, were viewers really expecting to be entertained by brilliant dialog, and a coherent story, and Oscar-worthy performances? 'Cause I think that only a ding-dong dimwit would've realistically expected that sort of thing from the likes of Dragon Wars.Another one of Dragon Wars' pluses was that, often enough, it was so pathetically stupid that it was actually quite funny. It even got so ludicrous at times that I literally burst out into almost uncontrollable laughter.In some ways I'd actually go so far as to say that Dragon Wars surpassed the likes of Transformers by a Korean, country mile. And, I'd certainly bet you that if this monster-of-a-monster-movie had been directed by, say, Michael Bay, rather than Hyung Rae Shim, then reviewers here on IMDb wouldn't have been so savagely anxious to trash it as they so mercilessly did.Anyways - When it comes to Korean legend, I really can't believe that upon this film's release the people of Korea didn't come forward and publicly protest about how utterly stupid this movie made their beliefs appear to the rest of the world

A lot of people on this page have complained that DRAGON WARS is let down by the story . I disagree it's not so much the story/plot/premise that is at fault but the storytelling itself . For some need only known to the producers several characters have to experience a " they wake up only to find the danger they were in was in fact a nightmare " which becomes very annoying . The only function these nightmares seem to have is to show some CGI special effects which are terribly cartoonish . One wishes the production had limited the number of effects so that when they do come they'd be more convincing There's also another element that let's DRAGON WARS down and that is it's trying to be as inoffensive as possible . This is personified by the opening flashback scene in ancient Korea which sees the villains attacking a village with their dragon army . It's not on a level with Peter Jackson's RETURN OF THE KING but it had the potential to be impressive . I said " potential " because the editing is done in a very blink and you'd miss it technique similar to QUANTUM OF SOLACE which will have you thinking the more violent bits of the scene have been left on the editing floor