{"id":1622,"date":"2005-06-21T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T00:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1622.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:13","slug":"reign-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/06\/21\/reign-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Reign Of Fire<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I know why this wasn&#8217;t a hit at the box office:  too many beards.  Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey (both of whom <em>rock<\/em>) are found here sporting decidedly <em>odd<\/em> facial hair.  They&#8217;re both buffed up, and take on heroic action roles, but when it comes down to the classic &#8220;men want to <em>be<\/em> them, and women want to be <em>with<\/em> them&#8221; test, I think I&#8217;d rather hang on to my Gillette triple-action, thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, it&#8217;s actually pretty good.  In a burned-out world where long-dormant dragons have awoken and laid waste to mankind, a group of survivors are forced into a position where they have to fight for their lives, and for the survival of mankind.  It&#8217;s dark, it&#8217;s violent, and not everyone lives happily ever after.  The absence of a PG certificate means it doesn&#8217;t have to try and please delicate sensibilities, but neither does it stray all the way into gory last-man-standing mode.  Director Rob Bowman seems to have resisted any pressure to fit the story into an established audience-pleasing mode, and instead just tells it like it is.  Uncompromising, and very watchable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I know why this wasn&#8217;t a hit at the box office: too many beards. Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey (both of whom rock) are found here sporting decidedly odd facial hair. They&#8217;re both buffed up, and take on heroic action roles, but when it comes down to the classic &#8220;men want to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}