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      There Be Dragons

      PG-13 Released May 6, 2011 2 hr. 0 min. Drama List
      12% 41 Reviews Tomatometer 54% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score An investigative journalist (Dougray Scott) unearths secrets about his father's (Wes Bentley) ties to the controversial founder (Charlie Cox) of Opus Dei. Read More Read Less Watch on Peacock Stream Now

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      Mum L Cinematography: excellent. Direction: very good. Dialogue: needed refining. Acting: some very good, some needed refining. Music: obsessive, distracting. I enjoyed the movie as I am a fan of both Charlie Cox and Olga Kurylenko, but the music was overbearing and constant. I was tempted to turn off the sound; then the film would have been a better experience considering the dialogue was predictable. Still worth the effort for the history behind it. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/17/24 Full Review Audience Member What a dirge of a movie. Trying to be an epic film about the Spanish War, the Catholic church and the unearthing of grave secrets...it really doesn't hit any of those points well. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/03/23 Full Review Audience Member I felt nothing during this entire movie -wait, that's not true - I felt that it was trying way too hard to elicit emotions. Not least of all in this regard (in this overbearing leftist suck-fest) was the sappy over-the-top score that was more like an musical assault than artistic support. "The strings say FEEL something!! - FEEL SOMETHING!!!!!!" Nauseating... Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent movie. Has a lot of relationship plits and sub plots all under the backdrop of civil war. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Oh, dear god, why, oh why do they still make movies with popular actors doing bad accents? It's like a a bad SNL sketch. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Story about Opus Dei's founder which advocates his work through a much incoherent parallel story of the crimes committed during the Spanish Civil War and the today's stormy relationship of a son and his father. Most of the performing is pretty bad, maybe also empowered by the clear difficulties that many of the Spanish actors have to do so in English, their strong accent when speaking and the grandiloquent dialogues and monologues in the script. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Bill Goodykoontz Arizona Republic Rated: 1/5 Aug 12, 2011 Full Review Joe Neumaier New York Daily News Joffe, working from his own script, presents the men's lives as evidence of difficult choices, but this pedantic movie is never fully invested in any of them. Rated: 2/5 May 7, 2011 Full Review Alonso Duralde Movies.com Putting aside the many aesthetic problems with this overwrought, over-narrated, and overacted movie, the politics of There Be Dragons make very little sense. Rated: 1/5 May 6, 2011 Full Review Kelly Jane Torrance Washington Examiner There's a great film to be made about Josemaria Escriva, the founder of the controversial Opus Dei. There are more great films to be made about the complicated Spanish Civil War. This movie, however, is neither. Rated: 2/5 Jan 8, 2019 Full Review Kiko Martinez San Antonio Current It's unfortunate director Roland Joff fails to capture real emotion and passion within the religious narrative. Without that perspective, there's no way he can breathe any life into the biopic, much less fire. Rated: D Jan 29, 2018 Full Review Sr. Rose Pacatte National Catholic Reporter The cinematography is gorgeous, the art direction excellent, and the historical sequences, including the battle scenes, seem quite authentic. The visual parallel narrative structure, the subtleness of the religious imagery, works well. Jun 29, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An investigative journalist (Dougray Scott) unearths secrets about his father's (Wes Bentley) ties to the controversial founder (Charlie Cox) of Opus Dei.
      Director
      Roland Joffé
      Screenwriter
      Roland Joffé
      Distributor
      Samuel Goldwyn Company
      Production Co
      Antena 3 Films
      Rating
      PG-13 (Violence and Combat Sequences|Thematic Elements|Some Language)
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      May 6, 2011, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Feb 25, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $1.1M
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