Dragon Knight

When I saw this available in English I was really glad & snatched it right up. What surprised me was that it seemed to loose some of its poetic & emotional impact through translation. But don't let that detour you from adding this to your collection if your a fan of the genre. This movie has all the elements of a heroic saga of the period, so much so I wonder if it was an adaptation of a folk tale from the period. With the hero far from being a squeaky clean paladin type character there is an edgy theme of realistic disillusionment to this surrealistic tale. The story is complex enough to have supported another half hour of back story. But without the filler it makes this a fast paced adventure that's well worth the watch. If your a fan of the genre you will be happy to add this unique story to your collection.

There goes another $3.99 out the window. Ten minutes into the flick was all I could take. A few fast forwards hoping I was mistaken and finally the pain was over. The only redeeming feature in this movie are the locations were it was filmed. Everything else was second and third rate at best. Its only entertainment value is in watching people like myself squirm in discuss at having wasted money on another monotonous B movie, which there seem to be a lot of these days. If you've more money than sense or no sense at all this could be the movie for you.

I have not finish it, no subtile.

I've been a fan of this short OAV classic since I first watched the VHS dubbed tape at the tender age of 13. It rides on one joke (that a "hero" sent to rescue kidnapped beauties from the all-female kingdom of Strawberry Fields is a lech and likes to take pictures of the inevitably stripped and busty girls before releasing them, but is constantly foiled by an irate woman sent to accompany him in his quest) but at what amounts to 40 minutes of anime, it doesn't really have time to get old. The art is fairly standard for an old anime OAV, but it works for the material. Most of the girls have their tops removed at some point. Nothing graphic below the waist and no actual sex whatsoever. VERY tame, given the rating. It's not hentai and it seems silly to promote it as such. I'd say 16+. The price tag is a bit steep given the brevity of the material included, but I couldn't resist getting this DVD, if only for the nostalgia factor. NOTE: THE other Dragon Knight OAV (I believe it is a follow-up), released separately from this, is typical hardcore hentai with none of the humor or charm of this one. Avoid it if you aren't fond of typical hentai.

THIS FILM WAS A FARCE IT REALU HAD VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH CRUSADERS. A C MOVIE AT BEST. I8T WAS BOARING

I bought this because out of nostalgia and also because my vhs tape was gone.

I wish I had seen other reviews that this is dubbed and only dubbed. I watch French movies constantly, and I am familiar with what several of the actors in this sound like in French. The dubbing is so awful and laughable. Unwatchable.

The art on the dvd box is pretty misleading. It shows Daniel Auteuil crouching with sword and shield while armies battle in front of a castle in the background. The last sentence on the back of the box says "Prepare yourself for a descent into a brutal hell, where armies clash and blood flows like rivers, and where a sharp blade is the only means of defense against an army of evil." None of that happens in the movie. The movie starts out with a young boy named Felix who read stories of the hero knight turned mercenary and wants to accompany him and learn to become a knight himself. The knight is on a mission to return a squire to the Pope for money meanwhile another knight/mercenary and his 20 or so men (maybe that's the army the cover talked about?) is also in pursuit of the squire. The story revolves mostly around the knight and how he's really not what he's cracked up to be in the stories the kid read with his shady past and what not. There's only a handful sword fighting scenes so if you're looking for some epic battles you won't find it here. All and all it's still a good story though. Only thing that kind of irked me about the movie is that it's english dubbed. The dubbing is terrible. I wish there was an option in the set up to just have it with english subtitles instead.