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Entertaining fantasy movie with thrills , emotion and state-of-art special effects bringing the fabulous dragon to life .¨Dragonheart 3 The Sorcerer's Curse¨ by Colin Teague boasts a passsable cast cast as Ben Kingsley , Julian Morris , Tamzin Merchant , Roger Ashton-Griffiths , Christopher Fairnbank , Jake Curran , all of them get together to battle and protect themselves from a ruthless sorcerer : Jonjo O'Neill . Spellbound Dragon picture with overwhelming fights and sensational scenarios . This film blends witchcraft and wizardry , adventures , battles and is extremely fun and amusing . It is set in the 10th century , A.D. When aspiring knight Gareth (Julian Morris) goes in search of a fallen comet rumored to contain gold, he is shocked to instead encounter a set of dragon eggs guarded by dragon Drago. Then , Gareth spontaneously meets a dragon named Drago (voice by Ben Kingsley) and joins forces a brave warrrior girl (Tamzin Merchant) , and a young monk , Lorne (Jassa Ahluwalia) , to vanquish the evil sorcererer . All of them unite a free-breathing dragon to fight a villain knight , Sir Horsa (Dominic Mafham) , as well as must work together to defeat an evil sorcerer (Jonjo O'Neill) and stop his reign of terror. They inspire the people to fight for their freedom and taking on a tyrannical ruler. Along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being a knight and the sense of life .

This is a medium-budget film in which there's some slow spots but the enjoyable relationship between Garth and Drago make for a fun pairing . The plot is well known and similar to other entries , after Drago saves Gareth's life the two become intricately bonded, as their lives there now share with one heart, joins forces to protect a nest filled with dragon eggs, from there, Garth and Drago have to save the entire kingdom from the rule of the ominous sorcerer . The huge dragon does seem , well , real , thanks to the splendid work carried out by digital effects team . This fantasy movie packs noisy action , witchery , fantastic events , sorcery , impressive battles and a little bit of humor . Likable performance by Julian Morris and Jojo O'Neill as the villainous , evil-hearted sorcerer .The story has many familiar dragon motifs found throughout Western culture , in particular Saint George and the Dragon, in which maiden sacrifices were made to appease a harassing dragon. Saint George's tale also includes a sacrificial lottery resulting in the surprise condemnation of a princess , Saint George is also frequently depicted with a magic blessed lance or a sword . Smart screenplay by Matthew Feitshans, dealing with fantasy medieval , dragons , necromancy , fantastic kingdoms and many other things . Entertaining and fun movie with acceptable special effects bringing the dragon to life . Work on dragons made by CG sometimes seem authentic , but is also noted its computer realization . It is entertaining and funny and with decent computer generator special effects bringing the dragon to life . The movie was produced in enough by Raffaella De Laurentiis (Dino's daughter) . Decent musical score by Mark McKenzie , though he takes sounds from excellent and memorable Randy Edelman's soundtrack . As well as a colorful and glimmering cinematography by David Luther . The motion picture was professionally directed by Colin Teague . It's a family film , a fantasy action-adventure for the ages , but is specially appointed to kids .

The picture belongs to Fantasy/Dragon sub-genre ; other important films dealing with Dragons are the following ones : The original ¨Dragonheart¨by Rob Cohen with Dennis Quaid , Dina Meyer , Jason Isaacs and Julie Christie ; the sequel ¨Dragonheart , a new beginning¨ 2000 by Doug Lelfer , a regular follow-up with little budget and average FX , including unlikely premise from the first part to be continued in a similar plot , there is also a last dragon and a young knight that dreams of becoming a brave knight in shining armor with Chris Marterson , voice by Robby Benson , Figueroa and Harry Von Gorkum ; ¨Dragonheart 3 The sorcerer's curse¨ 2015 by Colin Teague ; ¨Dragonheart 4 Battle for the heartfire¨ 2017 by Patrick Syversen with Patrick Stewart , Andre Eriksen , Tom Rhys ;¨Dragom Storm¨ (2004) by Stephen Furst with Maxwell Caufield , Angel Boris , Tony Amendola and John Rhys Davies ; and other latter day movies and belonging to this Dragons sub-genre are ¨Reign of fire¨ (2002) by Rob Bowman with Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey , Izabella Scorupco , and Gerard Butler ; ¨Eragon¨ (2006) by Stephen Fangmeier with Edward Speleers , Robert Carlyle , Sienna Gullory and John Malkovich .

Third film of the unnecessary Dragonheart franchise. I never saw the first film and am not quite sure what compelled me to record this off of the El Rey Network, but I did. The first sequel was better than I expected and I actually liked this third film just about as much. The story here is about involves another young person, a knight this time, befriending a dragon. The conflict involves the young knight helping the dragon protect a clutch of eggs from an evil sorcerer, as well as other plot lines involving Hadrian's Wall and barbarian hoards. Like the prior sequel 15 years earlier, this PG-13 film felt as if it were basically a kids movie, but with PG-13 levels of violence, rendering it not appropriate for the kiddies and left me wondering who was the target audience? Still, I did find myself entertained and never really bored, which is more than I can say for a lot of films.

I should probably rate the movie with just one star because the plot is crap, the actors are like playing during their bath time (awful) and even the music feels out of place in many parts.

More in detail the plot is full of so many holes that we could open a golf course. I could play better in ANY movie ANY day than most of them, (except maybe a little from the female actor which had some shinny moments, the master druid and the master knight) and the music was like drunk people were playing and they were trying to keep up with the scenes but were too stoned to succeed.

The only reason that i 'm giving it 4 stars is because of the CGI, which are mesmerizing. The details in everything, well, fake are absolutely stunning. The problem was with the living parts of the movie... That's all. A totally destruction of the dragonheart story. Do not bother.

Dragonheart joins the rest of the plethora of movies that churn out a third movie to rake in the last few dollars before the idea is officially overdone and dead. This movie, like most franchises when they reach the third movie resembles that watered down concepts from the first movie. The first Dragon heart was fresh original and great. In these days for the movie to be great there has to be more than just fancy CGI.

This movie is let down my poor, lame acting. The characters all fulfilled their one=dimensional scripts.

It seems the directors had to highlight parts that are meant to be funny by adding a Irish jig to the soundtrack in some random places.

The bad guys are just plain evil for no reason than to be evil.

And the dragon.....come one peps this is meant to be focusing on the Dragon relationship with the lead character but instead he seems to pop in and out of the story like some lost little puppy. He seems tough and is willing to take lives at the start of the movie then he just flys around looking scary later on. The morals in this movie are a mess.

Ultimately now days there are better entertainment experiences with dragons to be had in games so I think I will stick to Skyrim.

I had the first Dragonheart on video when I was young and I was crazy about the movie. Not just because of the cool Dragons, but the way how they made the relationship between human and Dragon seem so fun. You could experience everything with them and laugh at jokes. The effects for that time was amazing.

This franchise has the most amazing Soundtrack of all time. In the first two movies they made the scene where the song played, and what the Actors did, seem so special. So I fell in love with the movies.

But unfortunately not everything can be kept to a high standard and while I was watching the third movie last night, I was horrified by the poor standards of the scenes, the poor interaction between human and Dragon. Literally just ONE scene where there was a little humor. You almost never see the Dragon and the way he looked, compared to the previous films was terrible! They made him look more like a wild animal than a character with a purpose in the movie. It;s just humans humans humans.

It's so obvious to see where scenes have been cut and pasted, scenes that didn't really have a impact on the film enjoyed the longest camera action.

You guys had one job, you had two previous movies to help you make the movie better or at least keep the standard.

I'm very disappointed with the effort and the low standard of this movie, you really ruined this franchise for me.

I'll keep my faith in the first two great movies

-Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse (2015) movie review: -Dragonheart-ish 3: The Sorcerer's Curse is a prequel (I think) to the original cult-classic Dragonheart, whose legacy really died with Dragonheart 2…. Anyway, in this rip-off, we follow an unrealistically good looking squire who, after rejected from knight school, goes over Hadrian's Wall to find a meteor, only to discover a dragon inside. But when the male dragon's eggs are stolen by a sorcerer, he, the dragon, a random loser in a robe, and epic Merida from Brave must work together to stop the sorcerer from using the eggs to hatch dragons to attack the wall and free his people. Yup. I'm not done! One subplot includes Merida and the loser monk-ish guy wanting to help their own people beat the kinda evil knights at the wall to set their people free. So they want the same things as the villain. Who also makes the dragon useless through most of the film. This. This is why I said Dragonheart-ish.

-As you can tell, I did not like this film. It is okay though, Syfy will love it.

-The story is dumb. Aaaand it makes no sense. And it is inconsistent. And it doesn't tie into the other films. Also medieval knights at Hadrian's Wall. Fighting Woads and Druids. With a dragon. A medieval dragon. The writer failed history. Every history. Ever.

-The pace was not good, because nothing happens much. Also the dragon is barely in it.

-Ben Kingsley voices the dragon. Huh. I have no idea how they got an Oscar winning actor to do that. Also the rest of the cast barely tries.

-The characters are inconsistent, unmotivated, and unlikable. Even the dragon. Who doesn't use fire to beat his enemies. Instead he just flies around. And does nothing.

-The music was mostly lame. Some fun Celtic music played during a tense fight, which made it awkwardly funny. Also playing the original Dragonheart theme does NOT earn them points in a film this bad.

-The effects were just as good as the original! The only problem was that they did not update them in 30 years….

-Like everything in this is bad. From costumes to lack of blood or inconsistent everything. Video game quests and no driving force behind anything. Dragons are also aliens now? Whatever. Dragonheart-ish 3 is already on Netflix, but that doesn't matter, because Dragonheart-ish 3 is not worth seeing. Ever!

After an excellent opening film and a relatively poor sequel, we have the first prequel to "Dragon Heart". Set in the Full Middle Ages, a time where dragons supposedly existed (it is a fantasy version of the medieval world, as you can see, and also due to the large amount of fantastic and unrealistic elements, in the scenery and costumes), the script tells how a would-be knight makes the acquaintance of a dragon in the lands beyond Hadrian's Wall. With that ally, and the friendship of a friar and a courageous Pictish warrior, he will try to defeat the oppressive forces of Britannia: a tyrannical feudal noble and an evil sorcerer.

Dragons, castles, evil sorcery, relatively uncivilized tribal peoples, amidst what remains of the legacy of the vanished Roman Empire. A recipe that works very well, even if it is completely invented and gives us a very wrong idea of what the Middle Ages really were. But that's something I'm willing to forgive. What is not forgivable is the fact that the script recycles the story of the first film again, in its essential points: we have a very noble and decent knight, accompanied by a beautiful girl and a dragon, fighting a tyrant , and again the old story of sharing the heart. At its core, this film is almost a remake of the first film... but the magic of the original has been lost somewhere.

The film has some good actors. Right at the top, I would highlight the excellent vocal performance of Ben Kingsley. The actor, a veteran full of British nobility and chivalry, is impeccable in the task of voicing the dragon. A deep, dense, warm voice, but with soul and emotion. Julian Morris was also very good at his job, and establishes a good relationship with... the fictional CGI dragon, invisible to his eyes. Tamzin Merchant does not disappoint, in a character that is quite predictable and cliché, and that reminds us a bit of a tribal version of Princess Xena. Jonjo O'Neill is not bad, but he does what other actors have done much better than him: giving life to an arrogant and tyrannical medieval villain. The rest of the cast makes a welcome point of support, but doesn't have the time or chance to shine.

The film was produced by Raffaella, daughter of Dino de Laurentiis, producer of two films that I like a lot ("Blue Velvet" and "Serpico") and a huge amount of films that I hate ("Conan", in its various versions, "Dune", the clear original, "Barbarella", "Flash", etc.); so when I saw her name associated with this movie I feared the worst. The film, however, offers us good cinematography and quite satisfactory CGI effects, considering that it is not a particularly well-off production. There's a lot of action and adventure here. Less happy was the soundtrack, which seeks to match the original film, ending up just copying it.

Definitely better than the second one, but not as charming as the first one. Of course this had better CGI, and did a good job on Drago. This one was interesting, as this is supposed to be a prequal to the first Dragonheart. There are a few inconsistencies with this plot in relation to the first one. The plot feels like they stole a lot from the first one as well.

This one however had a different feel than the other two (well, the sequel should be forgotten) as it was a little slow at times, but had amazing cinematography, and they squeezed in a few historical references that I liked, the Wall of Hadrian for example. The acting was good, and the characters were likeable and the villain was great. It was great to have a bounce-back film from the sequel.

Muddled story. Poor acting. Don't waste your time on this.

"Dragonheart 3: The Sourcerer's Curse" is a fun fantasy movie with brilliant action sequences and just enough story to keep most viewers entertained. The film is immediately better than its "A New Beginning" predecessor and is a decent sequel to the original, incorporating enough of the lore and original score to make any fan geek out for a moment.

The film starts out at a brilliant pace, but is held back by some really glossy character development towards the middle, but is ultimately redeemed by its final action set piece and good casting choices. It is not clear where the film takes place in the time-line, but it seems to take place decades or even a century or two before the first film on the series.

The ending sets up the now confirmed "Dragonheart 4" which will be a great film if Universal can continue and/or improve the the quality.

Most of the people giving this film a low rating have not even seen the film and are a disgrace to critics everywhere.

Although I said before that I would probably never do this again, I lied. The movie is watchable, and in my wife's opinion (which I respect) was 'nice'. It's not all the horrible things that the 'critics' say it is. It is a 'nice' movie and was watchable for a movie night that I had no idea what to pick which usually results in me picking a movie that I think might be good but for no reason other than I think "why not?". Sometimes it really works out, most of the time it doesn't, but it's never 'bad'. This movie is in the 'it's not bad' category. Dang, once again I'm hit with the 10 line minimum and I really thought I could get past it via the old 'high school essay method' of double spacing my response. Sadly, it doesn't work. They reformat your text. So I have to babble on just to qualify. Seems a little silly, doesn't it?

Granted, when I sat down in 2022 to watch the 2015 adventure fantasy movie "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" for the first time, I have to admit that I wasn't really expecting a whole lot from director Colin Teague. Yet, as I hadn't already seen the movie, of course I found the time to do so.

The storyline told in "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" was actually adequate enough. Sure, it wasn't a particularly outstanding adventure fantasy movie, but it was actually entertaining enough for what it turned out to be. And yeah, I was adequately entertained by the movie, no doubt about it.

However, the movie feels somewhat rushed and superficial, as the storyline never really takes times to let the audience delve deep into whatever is being pushed through the storyline at a rapid pace. On that account, then director Colin Teague was sort of delivering a halfhearted movie.

Visually then "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" wasn't an impressive movie. The special effects and CGI definitely worked as intended, but for a movie from 2015, then the CGI felt inferior. The movie, being a fantasy adventure and all, would definitely have benefitted a lot from having greater effects and greater CGI.

The cast ensemble in "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" was all unfamiliar faces for me, and that was actually a good thing. I enjoy watching new talents and faces in movies, especially since they aren't associated with other previous characters and movies. So that worked well for me. The only known perfomer here, for me at least, was the voice of Ben Kingsley, as the voice of Drago.

Sure, "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" can be watched and enjoyed for what it is, especially if you are a fan of the fantasy and adventure genre. But don't get your hopes up, because this is not an outstanding foray into the genre.

My rating of "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse" lands on a five out of ten stars.

Thanks to the Directors for ruining Dragonheart for me I loved one and two but this film is a total disgrace to the franchise, why not quit while your ahead and cancel Dragonheart 4 before you ruin it anymore than you already have with Dragonheart 3.

The story was confusing for me and didn't make any sense and Drago sharing his heart with the guy was nothing like it's been with 1 and 2 something totally new that ruined it and Drago claiming he couldn't speak until he bonded with the guy is total rubbish doesn't explain how dragons in Dragonheart 1 & 2 could speak without needing to share a heart I mean Drake was a young dragon and he could speak!

So I say once and I'll say it again you've ruined a perfectly good franchise you should of left Dragonheart to 1 and 2 and that be it but no you had to screw it over.

So I recommend any true dedicated fan of Dragonheart like myself NOT to watch this movie you'll be sorely disappointed

Hadrian's Wall was built by the Romans occupying Britain in the 2nd century. Its purpose was to keep the various tribes of Druids from crossing over into the area south of the wall. While the wall roughly parallels the present day border between England and Scotland it is completely in present day England, and towards its east end is as much as 68 miles south of Scotland.

This fictitious story is set in that time, and features Julian Morris as Gareth, a Squire who has been in training to become a Knight. There is a medium sized village nestled into the wall on the south side and one of the tasks of the Squires is to collect "tax money" from the residents, presumably for the protection afforded. But when Gareth came back "a bit light" in the coin sack, for taking pity on a potter whose business had turned down, Gareth was denied Knighthood.

So he escapes over the wall into Druid territory and witnesses a giant ball of fire from the sky, upon finding it the next day, and chiseling on it to see if he can extract some gold, the big rocky ball explodes and out comes a full grown dragon, which he names Drago (voiced by Ben Kingsley). Drago had also been carrying 9 dragon eggs for safety until they were ready to hatch. When Gareth is injured by an arrow Drago transfers some of his Dragon magic to Gareth, this goes to his heart, he has become a dragonheart.

In the process Gareth also encounters Druid warrior Tamzin Merchant as Rhonu, good with bow and arrow and also hand-to-hand fighting. Together they and Drago fight the good fight to overcome the bad Druids and also to break open the gate to the wall for passage to the south side.

It is all fantasy, the CI is good and overall the costuming and acting are good, for those who enjoy this type of fantasy story.

When aspiring knight Gareth (Julian Morris) sets out in search of a fallen comet rumored to contain gold, he is shocked to actually find the dragon Drago (voice of Ben Kingsley). After Drago saves Gareth's life, the two become inextricably linked, and must work together to defeat an evil sorcerer and stop his reign of terror. Along the way, Gareth learns the true meaning of being a knight in this fantasy action-adventure for the ages.

Very cute, it surprised me, I thought it would turn into something infantile, it kept the magic and youthful charm, with juvenile protagonists, magicians, druids and dragons, but well produced, captivating, cute....

One of the main feature of this kind of movie is that the protagonists are always people who hold the justice above all while the antagonists play with their own set of rules. And of course the general rules of Hollywood applies as well; i.e.: the hero is always full of hesitation when it comes to make a final decision. This is so annoying when you watch a movie that defy logic of common sense. However, that is what Hollywood is all about and as long as there are suckers who will pay for this kind of video, there will be people making it.

The story begin with all the wrong theme. It start with some historical fact but then it digress into something of a fantasy which was what it was originally intended. To make it more complicated, a castle is created with the "king" who can knighted a commoner to become a knight just because this guy can collect tax for him ? And of course a dragon which looks enormous during the fight but small during rest ? To complete the fantasy, a female protagonist is created with the feature of an American Indian complete with the face tattooed with lines.

One of the things which I could not understand is why people with money in Hollywood always fall for this kind of stupid video. Don't they have any brain and common sense and choose to finance a better story....

What an incoherent low budget direct to video trash fire.

I wrote this ages ago, but I thought I'd publish it since the fifth movie is about to be released.

If you were expecting a sequel to my favorite film of all time, you would be wrong. It has nothing to do with the original movie. It actually has nothing to do with anything. But I'm a sucker for sword-and-sorcery movies, and had to see it regardless. Plus it was on Netflix and I was already laying there.

Primer: There are only three things you should expect from a DragonHeart "sequel"

1. A dragon sharing his heart with a human

2. The Old Code of the Arthurian knights being recited

3. That fantastic, tearjerking musical theme the original is famous for.

This movie managed to half-ass all three. The dragon shares his heart, but with the most implausible motivation (which is technically based on a lie that the hero never owns up to). Also, the heart-sharing mechanics don't work the same as the original. The Old Code is never recited in its entirety; just phrases here and there. And the trademark music does play... for like 15 seconds as a dragon egg shares its heart? sacrifices its life force by magical abortion or suicide? or something to a poorly developed character that we've become mildly concerned about.

Even taken on its own, DragonHeart 3 is not a very good movie. Nothing is remotely plausible. Drago (c'mon, you guys can name a dragon better than that!) shares his heart with Gareth after knowing him for 5 minutes. An old lady gives Gareth a pendant she "would have wanted her son to give to his true love" after knowing him for half an hour. There is one other woman in the movie, and after a tumultuous four days of adventuring and about 10 lines back and forth with Gareth, guess who gets the pendant? And we didn't even get to see the dragon egg hatch. I feel ripped off.

I didn't hate it, but in a few years I'll be like... "DragonHeart 4? Oh yeah, that's right: they made a third one." I kind of hated the second one, but I appreciated that it was a kid-friendly PG so you could start the young 'uns early on DragonHeart. This one's a tame PG-13, but not an obvious "kids' movie." Will probably play on streaming and cable a lot.

One positive thing to say: the CGI ghost effects for Drago were pretty cool. They should've done more with the "shadow jumping" idea, because that was pretty neat.

The best scene is after the credits, so if you watch it, make sure you don't miss it.

Wolfie's verdict: Didn't like it, didn't hate it, didn't care.

I think we all know that nothing will ever compare to the original DragonHeart and Draco will always be the best dragon of all time, but I really enjoyed this sequel. Much better than the second(though I still enjoyed that one as a kiddo). Its a little cheesy, but I still loved it. I might just be a huge DragonHeart nerd. I liked the story line, I think they put more thought into it this time around. It was a fun adventure and the effects of the curse were very interesting! I enjoyed most of the characters. I feel it must be a requirement of the DragonHeart movies to have an annoying monk ha but they all grow on you. I think Drago and Gareth were fantastic. This is a fun new chapter to the wonderful story that we have known and loved for almost 20 years.

Why don't female dragons have female voices (will one did, "Eragon"), but all the rest that happen to have human vocal cords seem to sound like Sean Connery. Leaving aside total animation films, those with joint human/reptile billing seem to not be able to decide if dragons are nasty or puppy dog nice (at least to the right person). Bad list - Potter, Dragonslayers, Hobbit, Reign. Nice list - How to Train, Neverending, Dragonhearts, Game. Westerners think they flew about in the, ball park, middle ages. Easterners place them at least 4000 BCE when the Earth was a cube. Ahhh, the fun begins when superstition and religion encounter dinosaur fossils - what imaginations.

Well, this film's particular dragon actor had great CGI which was easy to accomplish since the computer graphics code was already written and the dragon look already established in many films dating back to the '80s. The storyline was "Game of Thrones" borrowing (haha, stating it tamely) with wall, tribes, eggs and general overall feel. Creative storytelling, dialogue and acting would get a barely passing grade from a middle school film critiquing class.

The core of the concept of Dragonheart is HEART... which this movie has replaced with repetitious and almost constant violent battles. Okay, this is a fantasy movie, it's a dragon movie, it's going to include battles. But the violence in this was significant. Not a family film by any means. For me, it was simply too continuously and aggressively violent to enjoy.

We haven't seen Ben Kingsley in many good roles lately... often playing an unbelievable villain. He did decent enough voice work in this, but with today's digital voice modification techniques (heavily used in this film) that's not really saying much. The female character added some interest to this, as did the young Druid. The main character was difficult to tolerate, as was the dragon's motivation in trusting him with its most prized possession.

The main villain was properly vile (decent enough acting on his part). Most other characters were fluff. Surprisingly the dragon was so non-essential to the story line that it could have been completely written out of the script and the story remain pretty much the same. The CGI was excellent, but these days that's taken for granted. With the software and talent now available , a movie company would have to do a really bad job to have poor CGI. So I can't really give it much credit there.

In short, the film presents a mediocre script that lacked any of the heart of the first movie. If one is a fan of medieval battle movies and lots of violence, this certainly qualifies. But if the viewer is looking for substance, viable story and believable plot, this will likely disappoint.

I reckon our voice choice for the Dragon still had a contract to come back for a low budget movie. Or Sir Ben Kingsley does love Fantasy that much he did it for fun (I don't think the money was that intriguing, that it could've been the reason). Whatever the case, you get a great voice to a - let's say decently made CGI Dragon (that's taking into account that this is not big budget mind you).

Apart from OK CGI (if you lower your expectations), the story is pretty decent too. You've seen it before of course and the story of our hero in despair will not surprise you that much. Hairstyles and other things aside, that might not be accurate (but look cool I guess), this can be fun at times.