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Article: Here be terrific dragons.(Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2002
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Byline: ALEXANDER WALKER
REIGN OF FIRE Cert 12, 102 mins
BIG- BUDGET blockbuster jeopardy melodramas usually screw your nerves tight well before they introduce the Threat (monster shark, mutant spiders, It or Them) to city or civilisation. But Rob Bowman's Reign of Fire gives it to us at jet speed and furnace-hot in the first few minutes.
Flying, fire-spitting dragons: the very Concordes of the saurian species, who've been awakened from slumber under Trafalgar Square by the road improvement schemes (there's topicality for you). Lo! the skies are soon black with them; British cities are reduced to ash heaps ("Edinburgh is gone!"); mankind ...