Dragon Fighter (2003)

Workers in an underground lab fight for their lives against a cloned dragon they created.

Director:

Phillip J. Roth

Writers:

Micheal Baldwin (screenplay), Phillip J. Roth (screenplay)

Stars:

Dean Cain, Kristine Byers, Robert Zachar

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dean Cain	...	Capt. David Carver
Kristine Byers	...	Dr. Meredith Winter
Robert Zachar	...	Dr. Ian Drackovitch
Marcus Aurelius	...	Dr. Greg Travis
Robert DiTillio	...	Kevin Korisch
Vesela Dimitrova	...	Bailey Kent (as Vassela Dimitrova)
Hristo Shopov	...	Capt. Sergei Petrov
Chuck Eckert	...	Cookie
Kelly Wilborn	...	Dying Mother
Hector Kleist	...	Knight #1
John Barnsall	...	Knight #2
Chad Boyer	...	Knight #3
Matthew Coe	...	Knight #4
Matt Harris	...	Knight #5
Darius Kerns	...	Knight #6

Storyline

A group of scientists, working in a deep underground lab, clones and hatches a 1,000-year-old dragon, after finding its remains in a cavern in southern England. After the critter goes from one cell to full grown in 3 hours, it goes on a rampage, killing most of the scientists and escaping to the surface. Naturally, bullets don't faze it at all. Our Intrepid Hero helps kill if before it can menace all mankind. Sort of "Alien" meets "Reign of Fire".

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Plot Keywords:

dragon | scientist | fire | cave | person on fire | 

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Taglines:

There can be only one dominant species.

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Genres:

Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 January 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

O mythikos drakos

Filming Locations:

Sofia, Bulgaria

Company Credits

Production Co:

Angry Dragon Entertainment, Dragon Productions LLC, Unified Film Organization (UFO)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Visual Effects were done half in Bulgaria, and half in California.

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Goofs

There is a fusion explosion in the lab, with power half the Hiroshima bomb. After it's exploded, rescuers find another lab just 30 meters below explosion point. The lab is still quite operational, and even the second dragon is alive and well.

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Crazy Credits

No animals, including dragons, were injured in the making of this motion picture.

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Connections

Featured in Troldspejlet: Episode #29.11 (2003)

User Reviews

Enter The Cloned Dragon

Ya know, some people really make wonder. This certainly did not deserve a 1 rating.. and definitely not a 10, either. Why anyone would give it either of those is beyond me. What also is beyond me is why the people working on this movie insisted on a Computer Generated helicopter instead of using a real one. Oh, I get it, cheaper to pay someone to do the CGI work, and they musta thought the CGI would look just fine, as real as a real chopper, as real as the CGI rocks falling at the beginning of the movie to seal the dragon in the cave. Oh wait, those rocks didn't look real, they looked horribly wrong. Oy. This movie just lacked what it needed to make it good. Dean Cain was okay in what he was given. I'm not sure why he took this role in such a crappy movie... did he really think it would be good? Maybe he needs money. I dunno. The dragon wasn't too bad, though. I thought that sucker looked pretty real and darn scary. If I came across it if it were real i don't think i'd be stopping to pet it and offer it some candy. To the characters in this movie it was real and it was ruining their day. Would the dragon win in the end? Hmmm, i wonder, i say sarcastically. Also bad about this movie is it was quite predictable and also had that character you just could not stand 'cause he was so freakin' annoying - the messed up, maniacal scientist. It's okay to have a character that you hate but when one is sooooo annoying all you do is roll your eyes at him and you wanna throw a chair at the screen, it's distracting. I really don't know why Dean Cain's character decided he was worth saving. Duty, i guess, since he was U.S. military. I suppose, even though someone's so so so much of an idiot, he or she should be saved. By the way, what were their names? Who cares, the movie sucked. Must kill dragon before he eats us 'cause that's all it does is fry and eat people, does it matter what the character's names were for that? My grade for this slop: D and that's kinda generous 'cause at times this was a little exciting, a little, and Dean Cain had a few funny lines, a few, but this was nothing what-so-ever to rave about.