caught this on dvd recently and be happily surprise . it a post apocalypse story where mankind be reduce to live an almost stone age existence by a global disaster and but this time the apocalypse be bring about not by nuclear weapon but a race of dragon unleash from the depth of the earth by over ambitious mining . ok and it a pretty silly concept and but the whole thing be handle with panache . director rob ( x file ) bowman be obviously at home with this kind of subject matter and the visuals be excellent thanks to cinematographer adrian biddel and a dab hand at photograph the impossible thanks to his work on the two mummy film and the world be not enough . critic here in the uk pan it when it come out and say that it need more special effect and but they completely miss out on the charm of the film and which be in the ingenious way that it show the human race have be change by the onset of the dragon . i love the scene where quinn and his sidekick and have to entertain a castle full of child without the benefit of tv or video game and enact a scene from star war and provide both dialogue and narration a they go . don not listen to the critic and this be definitely worth a look .