Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire

The free-breathing dragon Drago : voice by Patrick Stewart , attempts to end the rivalty between brother : Tom Rhys and sister who is supported by nasty Vikings . Things go wrong when a new threat takes place , as these Vikings try to take the kingdom .

A fantasy movie packing thrills , emotion , spectacular battles, and overwhelming adventures . This is a medium budget follow-up in which there's a strong confrontation between two brothers and some Vikings . The plot is well known and similar to other entries , as dragon Drago and two siblings become intricately bonded, as their bodies share with one heart . The huge dragon is brought to life by means of state-of-art special effects . The film was produced in budget enough by Raffaela de Laurentiis , Dina's daughter , and she financed the complete series . Adding an emotive musical score in which is usually heard the classic leitmotif by Randy Edelman . The motion picture was professionally directed , though being inferior other entries .

This one belongs to Dragonheart series formed by the following ones : the best original Dragonheart 1996 by Rob Cohen with voice Drago by Sean Connery , Dennis Quaid , Dina Meyer , Jason Isaacs , Julie Christie. Dragonheart a new beginning 2000 by Doug Leifer with voice by Robby Benson , Chris Masterson, Figueroa , Harry Von Gorkum. Dragonheart 3 the sorcerer's curse 2015 by Colin Teague , voice by Ben Kingsley with Julian Morris , Tamzin Merchant , Roger Ashton Griffiths . Dragonheart Battle for the Heartfire 2017 by Patrik Syversen with voice by Patrck Steawart , Tom Rhys Harries , Jessamine Bliss Bell, Tamzin Merchant . And Dragonheart 4 Vengeance 2020 by Ivan Silvestrini , voice by Helena Bonham Carter with Joseph Milson, Jack Kane

This film was a pleasant surprise! I found this one enjoyable. I liked this one much better than the 2nd in the series. I like this one quite a bit.

6.5/10.

This movie was very touching. It was more character driven then your average Dragon Fantasy. You feel for these characters.

A few quibbles: the revisionist Feminism did not make sense. There was a lot of Game of Thrones. Especially the Brother-Sister "close" relationship. Some of the supporting characters were throw away.

On the other hand, for a low budget movie the special effects were pretty good. Patrick Stewart is a worthy successor to Sean Connery.

All in all I enjoyed this movie.

I can see that most of the male contributors hated the movie and most of the female contributors loved it. This could be happening because the movie revolves more around psychological and emotional aspects of both dragons and humans insted of bloody wars and fights as you would see in, for example, game of thrones.

I think Rafaella de Laurentis is giving her fans something that is almost non-existant in the movie market. Yes, the plot is extremelly weak, as have been all of the Dragonheart plots after the first movie. The dragons and the effects are probably not the best in Hollywood either. But these movies keep coming out despite their poor economic revenues, and that's something dragon fans should be greatful for.

NOT EVERYBODY likes beastly, evil, brainless, pet dragons as those of games of thrones. When I picture a dragon, I picture a wise, elder creature, just as these movies present them. If I want to see a winged dinosaur out of control, Hollywood is full of them.

I am more than willing to sacrifice CGI perfection just to see dragons as those from the DragonHeart franchise. I've fallen in love with every one of them. The plot, however, should be improved. The first DragonHeart had an awesome plot and I'm sure they can go back to that.

This was not a good movie. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't good either. 3 stars at the most. Much of the action was predictable and the story was all too similar to many others. It's time (past time) to retire this franchise.

The forth installment is a failure!