Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005) poster
2005 · action · adventure · fantasy · tv-movie

Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God

Directed by Gerry Lively1h 45m2005
ElsewhereIMDb4.67k
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Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Due to a curse from his former master Profion, Damodar survived his death by Ridley Freeborn as an undead entity in pursuit of an evil artifact for some hundred years, so that he might be capable of unleashing unstoppable destruction on Izmir and the descendants of those who caused his demise.

Our read · Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God (2005) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · adventure · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want earnest tabletop fantasy, dragon gods, and Bruce Payne camping it up.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou cannot enjoy cheap Syfy-era effects and wooden quest dialogue.

If Dungeons & Dragons is your film
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Low-budget sword-sorcery with dragon stakes
(You need modern TV polish)
Eragon (2006)
Young hero dragon-fantasy with earnest scope
(You want villain-forward camp)
Dragonheart (1996)
Dragon mythology driving a redemption quest
(You need party-based D&D structure)
DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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