Plot Holes In The Movie Reign Of Fire, In No Particular Order
Reign of Fire is about post-apocalyptic world in which dragons rule the skies and humans are forced to hide underground. It stars Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale. These are its problems.
1. The dragons’ diets consist solely of ash. This is explained in a little bit of expository narration at the start of the movie. Dragons burn everything so they can eat the resulting ash. Ash has almost no nutritional value. The notion that dragons that wiegh thousands of pounds could survive on a diet of ash alone is preposterous.
2. Christian Bale is the leader of the English resistance against the dragons because he was one of the first people to see the dragons when he was a child. He has no other qualifications besides that.
3. Christian Bale has no plans to defeat the dragons. His entire leadership consists of making sure all the humans he knows hide underground away from the dragons. When Matthew McConaughey arrives in England from America, he stuns Christian Bale by informing him that, yes, dragons can be killed.
4. Matthew McConaughey travels from America to England in a helicopter. I am pretty sure helicopters cannot cross the Atlantic.
5. Dragons hibernate for periods of thousands of years, which is why nobody had seen them since the Middle Ages. I doubt ash would provide enough sustenance to support a hibernation spanning thousands of years.
That’s all I can think of right now. But I’m writing an article about Reign of Fire for The Economist, so I plan on doing some more research.
Previously: Plot Holes In The Movie Little Man
