A failed movie franchise

Before watching this flick, following the (very bad) critical response, I wasn't expecting much. Indeed, when it was released, it was literally destroyed by the critics and the viewers so I thought it would be pretty bad. Still since Nick, my step-son, has a weak spot for dragons, I ended up renting it at the DVD shop thinking I was wasting my time and money. Honestly, to my surprise, I didn't think it was that bad at all and I seriously didn’t get what was all the fuss against this movie. Indeed, I thought it would be completely awful but the whole thing was actually rather entertaining. In my opinion, the special effects were rather convincing and there was a nice cast as well (Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle , John Malkovich, Garrett Hedlund, Djimon Hounsou). Basically, after the massive success of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise, they started to adapt almost all the available fantasy book series they could find and many, like this one, just flopped. The funny thing was that they even put a nice open ending for a future sequel. That's how confident they were... But no sequel ! To conclude, even though it was a flop, even though it is pretty much hated, I don’t think is that bad at all and I even think it is actually worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10