When Quinn says there are still children in the castle, Creedy takes his place to go back up … with only one tiny fire extinguisher to keep him safe. Quinn and Creedy have gathered all the children they can in a bunker. It happens when the male dragon attacks the castle. Then, as soon as you fall in love with the human Shrek that is Gerard Butler, a dragon burns poor Creedy alive. Creedy does reason with one of the castle people by saying, “Eddie! Eddie, what are you doing? You got kids, man?” Because the filmmakers allowed Butler to use his real Scottish accent in this film, I heard, “You got cats, man?” You will be 100% on my side on this. You get so caught up in this grimy world that Butler doesn’t get enough chances to stand out. When viewing the film again, I missed Butler for most of it. McConaughey’s villain forces Butler’s character, Creedy, to destroy that one male dragon that cannot stop sexin’ and producing only female dragons.
Why, it’s Gerard Butler (or the Butt Man, as I like to call him). Most of the film’s strong points are in the confrontations between Bale and McConaughey’s characters. So, Matthew McConaughey comes into Quinn’s town, fronting a largely militarized team that’s out to hunt and slay the one male dragon nearby. But you know he wants to take revenge on those dragons, right? Cool motivation. Christian Bale intensely plays Quinn as an adult, who now leads a community of survivors within a giant castle. On the day the dragons were released, a young boy named Quinn saw one kill his mom. Well, I suppose if you read the title of this article, then you do, in fact, know that Gerard Butler has a small role in this dragonslayer epic set in 2020 England - when half of the world’s population has been destroyed after the accidental early-21st-century awakening of dragons (who made dinosaurs extinct, I guess). In its displeasing, grey bleakness, Reign of Fire is proto-Zack Snyder but it’s also impressively acted and the CGI dragons look pretty decent for the time. However, it’s challenging and rewarding in the way Waterworld is now, viewed through an unrestrained lens as time has passed. It’s not a film many people remember because dragons were not yet as popular in 2002 and because it’s also not a super-fun film. Let me assure you: They are not the same film. Reign of Fire is an interesting post-apocalyptic film that some people still confuse with Dragonheart. This week’s installment comes from Greg Lindberg, host of Crazy Townies, a podcast about the band Crazy Town. That’s but a small sampling of this Scottish export’s quarter-century run - whose body of work will be highlighted biweekly this month in a retrospective series. Instinct tells us otherwise: People really love Gerard Butler.ĭisfigured catacomb vocalist. SEO tells us the piece’s popularity is thanks to its reference of one character’s inscrutable “Peckerwood” tattoo. No one piece has persisted as powerfully as our 2018 review of Den of Thieves, which we called an “unswervingly painful” waste of 140 minutes. Since 2017, Midwest Film Journal has prided itself on delivering thoughtful commentary on current and classic cinema.
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