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Summary: Good Flick...
Review: This was actualy a good fantasy flick worth at least watching once. However the bottom line of this one is you will either like it or hate it so rent it first...
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Summary: This was a movie?
Review: I could've sworn I was watching an hour or so of out-takes or audition tapes. Well, if this is a movie, IT'S TERRIBLE! Do NOT soil your expensive Hi-Fi TV's with this big pile of Marlon Wayans infected ...! The acting is downright atrocious....even Jeremy Irons gets a sigh of disgust from me. The special effects were FAR from believable, equivalent to a cut out from a cereal box being slid across the screen! The plot was a bore, everything was predictable....with traces from everyother movie in the fantasy genre.......including cheesy ripoffs from Star Wars...don't believe me? Watch it, at your own risk! Personally, I'd rather watch Wing Commander (Yuck!) 6 times back to back than watch this pathetic attempt to profit from the big screen using a popular name. Do what I did...endure to the end of the movie and start taking names of who's responsible for this waste of time.....action should be taken!
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Summary: Horrrrible
Review: Having played Dungeons and Dragons for 20 years, I have to say that this is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The only entertainment value is laughing at just how badly it was put together. Don't wast your money... a much better movie will be Lord of the Rings this winter.
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Summary: Pathetic
Review: As a 20 year player of Dungeons and Dragons, I have to say that this movie is one of the worst ones I've seen in my entire life. The only entertainment value in it is laughing at just how bad the acting, dialogue, and story is. ...wait for Lord of the Rings to come out this winter.
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Summary: How can we possibly still make movies so bad?????
Review: This movie did not live up to even my lowest expectations. The characters were lifeless, the plot lost my interest immediately, the computer graphics were so terrible and obviously fake that it ruined any scene where they were used, and the acting was HORRIBLE (Oh my God, I mean horrible doesn't even begin to describe it). Even Jeremy Irons overdid it with the soap opera drama that teetered on the comedic. The movie centerpiece "rod" looked like a toy picked up at at a local K-Mart complete with a flashing light (and probably even pulsating sound too). I am so mortified that I came so close to buying it without renting it first. The only redeeming qualities were the costumes, the score, and the reason behind why it was made.... to capture the fantastic worlds created by the game Dungeons and Dragons.
Rating: 
Summary: An Entertaining Asset to Your Fantasy Collection
Review: In all honesty I'm going a little high by giving it a 5 but I feel the need to make up for all the undeserved 1's it is receiving here. A truer rating for it would probably be about a 3.75, and a 4 for the DVD version when you include all the added goodies! Dungeons & Dragons while not being Academy Award material, is quite well-done and very fun to watch. The acting by our lead Justin Whalin (probably best known for his role as Jimmy in the Superman TV show Lois & Clark) was captivating enough to have me completely empathetic with his character, our slightly reluctant hero, Ridley. The special effects were also well done. While I would have liked more exposition on the supporting characters and their motivations the movie pulled together fairly well by the end. I grew up on books by Tolken, Terry Brooks and the like. I graduated to PC Role Playing Games such as Diablo and Diablo II, and although I've never played D&D I think that this movie stayed true to its fantasy roots. If you're expecting absolute brilliance, innovation, and movie experience unlike any before you may be disappointed. If you are looking for an enjoyable escape from reality for a couple of hours, this is definitely your ticket!
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Summary: Easy to laugh at, but still worth a watch
Review: Probably I am one of the very few people who went to see this rather disappointing film in Japan. Its release date was same as that of much-talked "Pearl Harbor," so why did I care to see it? Because, one of the cast is Thora Birch, one of the best young actersses up in America. And the poster of the film in Japan displayed her name in VERY large letters alongside with that of, of course, Jeremy Irons. Unfortunately, those two talented people are THE disappointment. One is acting too much, the other too little (which is which, you already know). Moreover, as is seen in films like "Mortal Kombat " or "Street Fighters," another big problem is the lack of script, not the story. Anyway, as this is based on roll playing game, the story must be about the fight between the good and the evil, but the film does not have any other way of staging it than relying old tricks which we have seen in films like "Indiana Jones" (such as a cave full of deadly tricks) in much better form. However, having said these things, as a fan of adventure films, I enjoyed watching it pretty much, thanks to two surprisingly good leads (Justin Whalin and Marlon Wayans) and Zoe McLellan, whose fresh presence is suitable for strong-willed heroine much needed in this kind of tale, (though she deserves much better script). Special effects are not particularly special, but good enough to keep you awake, and some gimmicks are based on good ideas (like a map that swallows you up) After all, it is very easy to be cynical, especially when you remember the lamentable results of the films based on any kind of games (remember "Super Mario Brothers" ?) but you cannot always expect "Matrix." Or can you? Whether you want to see "D & D," totally depends on that point.
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Summary: Stop the pain.....
Review: And I thought Legend was a bad fantasy movie. I though things couldn't get worse then Kull the Conqueror. I was wrong. Well, maybe D&D isn't as bad as Legend. But what really makes it reek is the producer had the rights and was assumedly developing the story for TEN YEARS, and this spasm inducing excuse for a movie is the result. Let us note that I am not biased at all towards D&D; to the contrary, I rather enjoy role playing. But nothing could make me enjoy this. In one word, the single most painful experience in the entire movie is the script. It is bad. You could release it in Arabic and have Saddam Hussein begging for mercy in twenty minutes. Example: "Boy I'd like to give those mages some payback!" "Do you REALLY think you can steal MY DESTINEY?!" "All people deserve to be free and equal." THE WHOLE MOVIE IS LIKE THIS! Watching it with earplugs would probably make D&D about 50% more enjoyable. The story is your usual ho-hum about an evil mage (played, unbelievably, by Jeremy Irons) wanting to take over a kingdom by controlling a bunch of dragons. It's boring, and worse, a little incoherent. Special effects range from a blue-lipped warrior with snakes coming out of his ears to a guy getting sucked down into instant cake mix. Some fight scenes look alright, some look crappy, and some contain a woman wearing armor that only Madonna could be comfortable in. D&D is truly a horrible film, so bad it's even hard to laugh at its awfulness. I congratulate and salute you if you can sit though the entire thing with the volume up and earplugs out.
Rating: 
Summary: Ugh! Poor Jeremy Irons!
Review: You don't know how disappointed I and my fellow D&D gamers were when we went to see this movie. :P My main problem was with the props. The armor and weapons looked like plastic throughout the entire thing! Sure, there were spectacular effects, but they were all but forgotten in the light of the acting and those heinous props! The maze-type scene kept my interest for about a minute, but it was just.. awful. Rent it, don't bother to buy it unless you're a huge fan of one of the actors and don't watch anything but them...
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Summary: Dungeons and What?
Review: If you don't count the script that was probably written by a 5 year old boy, acting that could be improved if all of the actors were replaced by monkeys, and costumes that would have looked better on my dog, there is still 5 minutes left in the movie. But these 5 minutes are credits at the end, so they don't count.
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