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"A knight is sworn to valor, His heart knows only virtue, His blade defends the helpless, His might upholds the weak, His word speaks only truth, His wrath undoes the wicked."

- The Old Code

Dragonheart (stylized; DragonHeart) is a 1996 fantasy action-adventure film directed by Rob Cohen, starring Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, Dina Meyer, Julie Christie and Sean Connery who voices Draco.

Plot
The young, sickly Einon was wounded in a battle while his father was giving away his crown to his son until died. In order for Einon to survive, he is healed by Draco, a dragon. Some years later, a dragonslayer Bowen encounters Draco. The two team up to form a travelling duo that perform an act, but the act is only known by themselves due Draco was the last remaining dragon. Bowen supposedly "slays" Draco and then collects a reward from the town or village that he protects by killing the dragon who had been "terrorizing" them. From there, Bowen and Draco must save the entire kingdom from the evil King Einon.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The computer-generated animation of Draco is very impressive like facial expressions and appearance which it still holds up today.
 * 2) Beautiful and amazing score by Randy Edelman.
 * 3) The cast is very solid and really good from Dennis Quaid as heroic Bowen, David Thewlis as evil king Einon, most notable voice role was Sean Connery as the last remaining dragon known as Draco and much more.
 * 4) The plot of the last remaining dragon who teamed up with a formerly dragonslayer to fight against the evil corrupted king is a interesting concept.
 * 5) Really good and likable characters from Bowen, Draco, Kara, Gilbert, notably the main antagonist Einon and others.
 * 6) The settings from the castles, villages, waterfall and even the scenery is perfect that it fits well in the middle ages.
 * 7) TBA.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the plot and characters are really good, there are many plotholes and lack of character development or motivation.
 * 2) * There are many scenes that was been cut out and was never appeared on any DVD or Blu-ray release, luckily the deleted scenes was managed to appeared in the novelization. (check in TV Tropes of entire deleted scenes)
 * 3) TBA.

Box office
The film was released on May 31st, 1996 and grossed $115 million against the budget of $57 million.

Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film 50% with 30 critics compiled retrospectively with an average rating of 5.7 out of 10.

Roger Ebert gave Dragonheart 3 stars out of 4, saying "While no reasonable person over the age of 12 would presumably be able to take it seriously, it nevertheless has a lighthearted joy, a cheerfulness, an insouciance, that recalls the days when movies were content to be fun. Add that to the impressive technical achievement that went into creating the dragon, and you have something to acknowledge here. It isn't great cinema, but I'm glad I saw it."

Trailer
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Review
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Trivia

 * Liam Neeson was originally going to casted as Bowen, which the test footage that featured Clive Owen as the stand-in of Neeson.
 * Draco was originally going to have animatronic effect by the late legendary-puppeteer Jim Henson.
 * Very surprisingly, the film was green-light within 48 hours (two days) by Universal Pictures which other film studios took months or years to green-light a film.
 * TBA.