The film stars with a news reporter finding something significant to him that causes him to flashback to a discovery in an antique shop in his childhood. The guy owning the shop flashes back to Korea in 1507 to try to explain the film's lore. After over 20 minutes of explanation, we still weren't totally sure what was going on but here's what we got: every 500 years a girl is born with a birthmark tattoo that indicates that she will need to be fed to a dragon on her 20th birthday. If the bad dragon gets her, it destroys the world. If the good dragon gets her, he saves it. In modern LA this girl is Sarah, a 19-year-old who somehow can drink in bars and can't emote to save her life. The reporter finds her and tries to help her as the dragons attack. Around half the run time is dragon attacks with an evil army of creatures and seemingly immortal guys trying to get Sarah. They eventually do and take her to some kind of CGI nightmare to sacrifice her but the good guys win and the good dragons gets her spirit . . . which he apparently can just return to her after. She's fine. The stakes were even lower than we thought.
This film was pretty amusing, particularly with the lame fight scenes and very cheap-looking but probably expensive effects. We've seen better, but we haven't seen many movies with this good a scene of a guy getting hit by a car.
Spoon Rating: 4
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