![]() ![]() Afterward, Alex Jensen (Izabella Scorupco), a scientist on Van Zan's team, explains that every dragon they have killed has been female. ![]() They have slain around two hundred already, dissecting them along the way.Īfter a harrowing, if illogical, aerial battle that, at times, steps firmly into the realm of full-blown horror, Van Zan's men kill the dragon that attacked Quinn's colony. Where Quinn's goal has been survival above all else, Van Zan's men are committed to killing the dragons and retaking the planet. A dragon attacks, killing the thieves and destroying the crops, effectively sealing the survivors' fate.Īt Quinn's lowest point, a group of American soldiers led by the eccentric Denton Van Zan ( Matthew McConaughey) arrive at the castle sporting a tank, advanced tech, and a helicopter. With the current crop expected to be too small to feed the community and supplies incredibly scarce, one man gathers his family and leads a group to steal the crops for themselves. But, by the time the film begins in earnest, the community is on its last leg.Įach year, their field yields fewer and fewer crops, the soil turned from overuse and environmental corruption. Quinn's plan is to survive long enough for the dragons to go back into hibernation. The survivors harvest crops and have devised a meager dragon defense system comprised of fireproof clothing, worn-down fire trucks, and stealth. By 2020, the combined devastation of nuclear fallout, the dragon's locust-like feeding habits, and general famine have reduced the human population nearly to the point of extinction.Īn adult Quinn, played by Christian Bale, now leads a small community of survivors in an abandoned castle in Northumberland with his second in command, Creedy (Gerard Butler). Militaries around the world are hopelessly outgunned, and the war against the dragons destroys much of the planet's surface. ![]() Over the next two decades, more dragons, all significantly smaller than the first, emerge from the Earth and sweep the globe, feeding on everything in sight. Quinn's mother is crushed to death, trying to protect him, leaving him as the only survivor. As Quinn and his mother desperately try to escape through the elevator lift, the creature surfaces. The dragon's breath kills everyone at the site. The workers dig too deep, penetrating a hidden cave and awakening a hibernating dragon. The film begins in 2002, when a young boy, Quinn Abercromby, visits his mother, the lead engineer overseeing construction on a new line of the London Underground. ![]()
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