Rating: 3 / 10

“Dragon Wars.” The very title would put the idea in ones mind that this movie would focus on two main things: dragons and wars. This promise, along with a laughable trailer, were the main reasons why I agreed to watch a movie titled

“Dragon Wars.” However, this title is as misleading to me as Charles Bukowski’s book “Ham on Rye,” which turned out to be nothing about sandwiches. However, at least the Bukowski book was quality. “Dragon Wars” is a frightening movie, but for all the wrong reasons.

The scariest part about “Dragon Wars” is the acting. The main character looks something like the potentially neglected offspring of Demetri Martin and Tom Cruise, and he is not as funny as either one.

The movie itself looked to be a possible B movie with computer generated images, and it was just that, however, most B movies are tongue-in-cheek enough to keep the viewer entertained. “Dragon Wars” took itself too seriously to keep me entertained.

There was of course the 30-minute back story, of which about two minutes worth made some sort of sense. Had they chopped the entire back story, the movie only would have been five percent more complicated and 25 percent shorter, and those are odds I can work with.

This movie took itself too seriously, was unnecessarily complicated, and was most of all dreadfully boring. As I sat in an empty theater, watching dinosaurs with cannons march on a city, I wondered why I wasn’t laughing all the way out of the theater.

Then it dawned on me: “Dragon Wars” was a colossal waste of time.