Metacritic reviews

The special effects work fine for minor acts of magic, but the climactic aerial dragon fight is lame, and most of the performances are at the level of high school plays.

Much of the dialogue is the silliest sort of fantasy mush, and a good deal of the picture appears to have been shot while the lighting guys were out to lunch.

A mildly entertaining but tepid extravaganza more suited to television than the big screen.

The audience has already checked out, long before the formulaic finish.

Good intentions, bad writing.

A cheap "Star Wars" rip-off with swords instead of light sabers.

This fantasy crap, fake-o effects and all, betrays princes of dice, masters of graph and wielders of bong.

Take this as a warning: it's not much fun.

At once laboriously expository and defiantly incomprehensible.

Tacky-looking, incoherent, badly acted and hopelessly directed disaster is easily the dullest adventure film of 2000.