MOVIES: Eragon

When you go to a movie, which supposed to be based on a novel,
(a kind of a bestseller, I must say) with wonderful actors like John Malkovich and Jeremy Irons (a true giants of the industry).
and the movie supposed to include dragon wars, dragon riders, beautiful princess, knights of valour and arch-villains, you really think to yourself:
"what can possibly go wrong in this movie?"
well...

EVERYTHING!

the plot is shallow like a Kineret on a drought year, no twist, not even a real leading theme, the movie has no start and no ending (as it is a part of a trilogy).
There is no smooth flow of the scenes, it feels like a big part of the movie was cut out at the editing - and that's bad.
The acting is less than competent (and that is a huge understatement), the main hero character is artificial, not credible and don't get empathy from the audience.
(if this is some kind of a "directors trick" to make confusion in the audience in order to identify with the chaos in the movie, he did it right...)

The dialogues are... are... well... how can I say it?... the dialogues are utter nonsense- full of "chewed" cliches, contribute absolutely nothing to the plot, (it is really hard to contribute to something which doesn't exist...).
John Malkovich (the arch-villain) seen three times in the movie, for less than a minute each time... he is really lost in this movie.
The "hot chick" (Sienna Guillory from Resident Evil) doesn't "deliver the goods" (spoiler: she doesn't get naked).
The only person who saves the picture from total loss is Jeremy Irons who carries on his back half of the movie (why half? figure it out yourself...)

but, there are dragons in the movie, (and wonderful scenes of a vast forests and mountain landscape) and because of that, everything I said above is irrelevant, and you will go and see it anyway.



if you like quality cinema, good plot, good acting and good action; go and see James Bond "Casino Royal"
if you love dragons, you just can't miss Eragon.