ahmadtattoo12 Review of A Dragon Arrives!

A Dragon Arrives! (2016)

one of the most time wasting movies I have ever seen.

[1/10 · 26 May 2016]

I just got back from watching this movie with my friends, and we all have the same thoughts on it, it felt like this movie was based on no script at all. i don't care about the technical aspects, i just care about the story, the structure and the level of its entertaining and I'm here to tell you it was simply awful and boring. throughout the movie we were waiting for something to happen, something to kick it off but nothing happened, and it's all due to terrible writing. it was supposedly based on some actual events. now, actual events need some kinda processing for them to be entertaining in the form of a movie, none was done in this case, which makes it only suitable for a documentary. the movie was full of unnecessary scenes just to compensate for the script's lack of content, scenes like the director him self talking about how he got hold of some evidence that helped him in writing the script. the trailer for this movie suggest the horror genre, but it fails perfectly to convey any of it. at some point we see the director saying "we had to postpone the rest of the filming for 9 months because we needed to find the other eye witnesses to get rest of the story from". what does it mean? does it mean they had begun the production of the movie without even knowing the end? which also means they didn't have the full script at the beginning. well, i don't wanna keep on going on how bad the movie was cause i can go for ever, so bottom line is, It is terrible, just like 99% of Iranian movies are.