Dragon Soldiers

Given the movie's title and synopsis, I must admit that I wasn't having much of any high hopes for this 2020 movie titled "Dragon Soldiers" from writer Dan Sinclair and director Hank Braxtan. But since it was a movie that I hadn't already previously seen, and I was given the chance, of course I sat down to watch it.

Well, the concept idea of the movie was ludicrous. I will say that much. I mean, a dragon out somewhere in the mountains. Sure, why not? Just how did it manage to stay hidden? A dragon would consume a massive amount of food, much less be able to stay hidden whilst midflight. Nah, there just were too many plot holes here.

But the movie was actually entertaining enough for what it was - a campy movie that you shouldn't take too serious. It was actually fair enough for mindless entertainment.

The dragon was interesting in design. Sometimes the CGI were quite good, but at other times the CGI were questionable and dubious at best. It made for a strange viewing actually.

Now, a movie such as "Dragon Soldiers" wouldn't warrant any award-winning performances, and you are not in for anything out the of the extraordinary when you watch the actors and actresses perform in this movie.

If you don't mind wasting an hour and a half - give or take - and you enjoy campy movies that makes little sense, by all means go ahead and watch "Dragon Soldiers". However, if you want a movie that is a memorable experience, then this is not the right choice.

My rating of "Dragon Soldiers" lands on a very mediocre five out of ten stars.

I didn't have high hopes for this movie, but man... was I Riffing the hell out of it. I was having a great time. It's not the best movie in the world, but the jokes that can be made are priceless. I LOVE the fact that the movie is self aware of how bad it is. Release date, 05/11/2020 and one of the missing posters has a dude gone missing on 05/12/2020. Which was the date I was watching it on. Too funny. Now it will make sense, in future viewings but, har har. If you love doing MST3K to movies, this one's for you!

Give this a solid five stars, Acting was fine, CGI was well above average for a low budget, so yes, an ok movie.

Well dragon Soldier was clearly no reign of fire or dragonheart so don't get your hopes up even a little bit. I mean when you first see the dragon the CGI doesn't appear that bad but that's probably the best they did in the entire movie other than that the rest of it is 100% ridiculous full of holes and makes very little even common sense. Granted when I watch the movie I wasn't paying much attention but they seem to leave out the part about how the dragon controls people's minds and make them turn into zombies that kill white people hey just left that issue unresolved. And these people who are being hunted by a flying lizard sure don't seem to grasp the concept of looking up to see the animal approach I meanhow many times does it have to swoop down from the sky and land on you before you start aiming your guns up instead of looking around the woods constantly and how many shots were fired by these professional soldiers before the guy in the end of fires one bullet that kills the animal you know hundreds of rounds out of machine guns and they don't hit the thing one time but then the guy shoots one bullet from a handgun and somehow it's an explosive in its stomach and kills it I mean that bullet would have killed the dragon without hitting the explosive if he shot it down its throat I mean I don't know too many animals that can swallow bullets from what looked to be essentially a desert eagle handgun and then live to tell the tale. And why did they keep showing the from the dragons viewpoint with it's crazy color vision when the dragon never saw the people from its view so why were they showing what the dragon was seeing and why did it have the crazy coloration if it didn't enhance the view to like show the people through the tree cover like heat tracking cameras infrared to show how the dragon can easily spot them no matter where they are because they can see their heat signature instead it just showed the dragon flying over the lake in Orange how did that help it you know rain tear down on these people no matter where they went what was the point of the dragon vision.and right where did the dragon come from was it a government genetic experiment that escaped how did it come to be in the woods with no parents how did it lay eggs with no mate you know and it didn't make any sense at all and I think they were kind of alluding to that fact in the end where the guy is talking to a squirrel and mentioned that he dropped the bombs in the dragon's stomach and then ran for the butthole in the skate and then he was now telling the squirrel the story I think that was just as realistic as any other part in the movie and if they were all going to go live happily ever after in the end why didn't the soldier when he went to the politicians office and shove the dog tags down his throat why didn't he get the money the other 80% of the payment so that they could all go right off into the sunset rich and heavy when that have made more sense than to just stuff the dog tags in his mouth and leave you should have also taken all the money that the politician thought he was going to get the keep now that all the soldiers were dead and his problem was gone you know kind of a Stick it to the Man I could have wrote a better plot for this movie in like 30 minutes of editing this script I could have made it a lot better I can't believe that they spent probably hundreds of thousands of dollars on this movie and this was the best that they can come up with I mean Jesus Christ how do people this dumb have access to this kind of money and I don't life is not fair that's stupid people get paid to do stupid stupid movies. Don't waste the dollar 80 at Redbox and shame on you Redbox you tricked me I thought the movie was in your box that it was up to some kind of standard this was totally a straight to Netflix movie and should have never been in a red box.

Wow, so many holes. Not the greatest action, but kinda fun?

The key to a good movie is the suspension of disbelief, sadly this movie starts out by shattering that, never tries to fix it, and even makes it worse as the movie goes on (I will avoid the spoilers).

My biggest problem is with the plot holes. Dragons are in the presented day, but its not that big of a deal? ... yet they are still trying to figure out how to defeat them? ... and would rather just send a small squad?

Sorry I can't give advice on whether to watch this or not. As I watched this I was dreading the next scene as much as I wanted to see it to see if it made sense or not.

The dialogue is at time just plain corny, although they didn't mean to be. The acting is not bad. The cinematography and directing are actually ok. The script tries to be Rambo-ish, Predator-ish, and others-ish, and fails ... but not miserably. Not sure how to describe it.