I finished watching it 20 minutes ago, and I thought the movie itself was very enjoyable. I'd give it an 8, mostly for originality and entertainment value. Impressive effects, and sufficient acting. If you are looking for Academy Award performances, then you should know better than downloading something like this anyway.

The dark atmosphere throughout made for difficult filming, I'm sure. Therefore I rated the visuals at 8. Most groups can't release a watchable dark movie, much less something that maintains decent clarity like this. There were two or three times the picture froze up, but only for a couple seconds.

The audio on the other hand, I rated a 6. The voices were clear, the bass boomed appropriately, but there were several very disruptive hisses and static bursts. The fiddling with the audio source is more disruptive to me than picture imperfections.

Overall a nice 7-ish effort. If you like Sci-Fi it is worth your time.

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yeah ..not too bad... weird begining i agree with a few in here perhaps they missed a bit of the start?- not a bad rls really- i watched it -so i cant complain really .. i dont think i would have given it a high mark that it has - thats a bit misleading .worth the download?? yeah i guess it was - the peeps at the end were a laff pulling there wedgies out etc - but for a new group ..yeah not bad ..beats the crap out of the really dodgy minority report rls's etc - but i guess they should have clipped the seats etc at the bottom -
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I'm not complaining but i wish they would put something in the nfo file about the movie being edited. Since the movie has the whole introduction about how they started to come out cut off. almost ruins the whole movie

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Total time for this movie on the cd's are 95 minutes and 35 sec.

According to IMDB it says the movie is 100 minutes.

I have not seen the movie in the theatre so i dont know what is missing. Nor have I seen any trailers of this one.

So people saying that 15-20 minutes are missing.......

Maybe this missing parts will be in the DVD version of it.
Since they always seems to add scenes to the DVD.
So the people who already have watched it will buy it just to
see the missing scenes.

Quality wise it was one of the bettter TS i have seen. I cropped the movie myself and edited it before i burned it and corrected some minor stuff. I just hated the people in the lower part of the screen and the theatre ceiling in the top.

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Total time for this movie on the cd's are 95 minutes and 35 sec.

According to IMDB it says the movie is 100 minutes.

I have not seen the movie in the theatre so i dont know what is missing. Nor have I seen any trailers of this one.

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Originally posted by ^Om3n

Well when you concider ~3 maybe 4 min or credits, maybe nothing is missing at all. People think something is missing because of the lacking storyline and it jumps straight into it. Seems to me thats just the way the movie is.

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This version is essentially a re-encoded version of the UTi release with an improvement in the sound quality. However, it is still missing a significant portion of the beginning of the movie (ie. the discovery and origin of the dragons). Alice Krige (she was the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact), whose name appears in the end credits, is nowhere to be seen in this release (she plays Quinn's mother). While the movie is certainly watchable without the beginning and you can infer a lot from the existing dialogue (despite how insipid it is), the missing opening segments would have explained or cleared up some seemingly bewildering plot developments and character motivations later in the movie. Frankly, it probably doesn't make a whole lot of difference since, aside from the CGI effects, the rest of the movie is pretty lame (flimsy plot, cardboard cut-out acting, and horrible screenplay). Still, it would be interesting to see what the beginning is like (obviously, I haven't seen the movie in the theatres). There is supposedly a montage shot of the dragons defeating the world's military forces over a span of fifty years; I would certainly be intrigued to see that. Hopefully a screener version of Reign Of Fire will surface eventually.

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d/l this version . I have d/l'd 3 dif versions and this is the best . I realy dont care if 5 mins are missing , the movie still kix ass

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I wonder if it can get ANY darker.

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well i don't know why you rate this movie so high... it was watchable off course..

but on the 2nd cd you see the chairs of the cinemar and on the ending greets how the stand up and ran across the picture...

little hinte: add some black crossbars on top and down so that shit isnt seeable :-)

and am i'm wrong ? or did they switched camara perspective on 2nd cd.. ??? first cd was ok.. but they i think it was a little oblique ? as they cam'd it from upper left to lower right ?!

bye

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watcheable.. good sound and ok pic. could be better..but i def. watched worse. overall 7/6/7.. decent movie. i would check it out. the sound seemed better than the picture. the pic was often very BLUEISH and dark.. I would have thought by now this movie would have been released in much better quality..but for now, this is the release to grab...

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This release of this movie was definitely watchable. I was not a big fan of seeing this movie after watching the trailers, but I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised after watching it. There may have been some parts missing, but all in all I found that I walked away from watching this release with at least most of the story and I found while watching it that I didn't have to strain to see and hear what was going on. Everything (sound and video) came through just well enough that I could tell what was going (I had to turn my brightness up on my TV a bit though -- but that can probably be seen from the JPGs).

Anyway, if you want to see this movie out of curiosity and don't want to pay the big bucks to go to the theatre then this release will suffice for you. If you are one of those who wanted to see this movie very badly then I would recommend paying the money for the bigger sound and the better visual quality to be able to get more from the special effects efforts that were put into this movie.

My rating: 6/6/7.

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