Eragon (2006) 5/10

Starring : Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Rachel Weisz
Director : Stefan Fangmeier
Running Time : 104 mins

A young farm boy named Eragon (Speleers) finds a dragons egg and, when it hatches, finds himself psychically linked to the creature, named Saphira (Weisz). Together Eragon and Saphira, with the help of Eragon’s mysterious mentor Brom (Irons), travel in search of the evil King Galbatorix (Malkovich) who destroyed the fabled dragon-riders of old and find themselves in a battle to the death with the King and his head wizard Durza (Carlyle).

This movie was pretty basic, and I found myself pretty bored early on. When I realised that Jeremy Irons was in it I immediately suspected a repeat of his performance in Dungeons & Dragons, but thankfully there was little opportunity for him to ham it up in this weak adventure. Not worth bothering with unless you want to see how the CGI dragon looks, but it doesn’t look that good to be honest.

You’ll like this if you liked : Dungeons & Dragons