DVD: Dragon Wars (D-Wars)

Dragon Wars, or D-Wars, stars Jason Behr, Amanda Brooks, Robert Forster, Aimee Garcia and is Written and Directed by Hyung-rae Shim.

D-Wars (or Dragon Wars) is based on a Korean folklore, about dragons. We follow a journalist Ethan (Jason Behr) who is somehow connected to the folklore story. We find out that he is the reincarnation of a apprentice of a master from back in the 1500s in Korea, and is job is to protect a 20 year old woman (known as Yeouijoo) who has a dragon mark on her shoulder from the Evil Imoogi, (that the Dragon) Buraki.

The day when the Evil Buraki rises again is drawing near as Sarah (played by Amanda Brooks) is about to turn 20. Ethan along with his camera man Bruce (Craig Robinson) finds Sarah just in time to save her from the giant serpent. All three time to run from this evil force all alwhile their is a war between the Dragon's followers against the army.

When I first saw the trailer for Dragon Wars, I must admit that I was a little of bit interested (at least it wasn't another sequel or anything of that matter). The movie is something that gave a fresh experience from seems like a year with very few original concepts out there. But from an entertaining point this is were the movie sort of goes down in a downward spiral.

Dragon Wars is not that well good in the casting spots of the movie, the actors Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks (who at first thought was Alison Lohman from the movie Matchstick Men, but then Alison Lohman can actually act. So that got crossed out). The movie also has Craig Robinson who I like in The Office (US version) hes really funny in that show. But the two leads Behr and Brooks I thought did a horrendous job of actimg in Dragon Wars.

I hate how trailer promotes that this was an action movie, but to then watch the movie and find out it had only good action in the last parts of the movie and they took that footage for the trailer. I remembered as I was watching the beginning where its placed in Korea and the Evil army is attacking, they have these lizard monsters with cannons on their backs, I thought this was just an extension of the Star Wars Episode I, Gungan vs Trade Federation battle.

Overall I wasn't impressed with Dragon Wars. I saw it and with about a couple minutes I'll most likely forget all about this movie. Dragon Wars (D-Wars) is a Skip.

DVD

Dragon Wars DVD has as features: "5,000 years in the Making: Featurette; DRAGON WARS Animatics: From Storyboard to Screen; Conceptual Art Gallery.

The DVD features are very short the only reasonable feature I though was watchable was the "Making of" feature, it has the Director Hyung-rae Shim talk to a crowd of fans in Korea about his journey of making this film. It runs for about 18 minutes long. The other features has sort of a spilt screen between the story board pictures and the actual movie footage. Overall I thought the DVD portion was very week, not even Commentary by Hyung-rae Shim. This DVD much like the movie is a Skip.