Eragon (2006)

Director: Stefan Fangmeier
Starring: Ed Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Garrett Hedlund
Certificate: 12
Genre: Fantasy
Awards: None

If you pay attention to the plot of Eragon, you will find that it is very similar to Star Wars. A world is being ruled under an evil emperor (Malkovich), a boy (Speleers) comes across something the empire wants (In this case a dragon egg), The boy's family is killed by the empire as they try and find the thing they want, Boy then meets old man (Irons) who wants to stop the empire and believes the boy is the key, boy and old man decide to rescue a woman (Guillory) from the emperor's right hand man (Carlyle) with the help of the antihero, (Spoiler alert!) old Man dies and boy joins the resistance.

I really like the books that the film is based on, but it seems that the director did not make as good a job at explaining the story as the author.  The dialogue is cheesy at times and the dragon doesn't seem to have much of a personality. Apart from Jeremy Irons and Robert Carlyle - who are as brilliant as ever - the actors are mediocre at best. It's definitely no Lord Of The Rings.

***Okay