Review of Dragonslayer (1981) by Stuart K — 28 Aug 2008
An underrated but visually stunning mythical adventure from from director Matthew Robbins, (one of Coppola's best mates.) Set in Medieval Britain, it has a dragon stalking the kingdom, old wizard Ulrich (Ralph Richardson) is due to set out to go and kill the dragon, but he is killed before he can do it, so the task falls to his apprentice Galen Bradwarden (Peter MacNicol), who is inexperienced but confident that he can do it, but he had a dubious king to convince first.
For it's day, it has some of the best special effects put to screen, plus it's well made, and got good locations, (North Wales looks lovely), there's not much else to it, but the dragon battles are suspensful enough, and it has a good score by Alex North.
This review of Dragonslayer (1981) was written by Stuart K on 28 Aug 2008.
Dragonslayer has generally received positive reviews.
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