Eragon (Special Edition)

2006 • 120 minutes

About this movie

In a mythical time, a teenage boy becomes a dragon rider with the help of a wise old man, and with his newly-hatched dragon, avenges the murder of his uncle, rescues a beautiful warrior, and battles a tyrannical king.

Ratings and reviews

If you have read the books, please, please do not watch this movie. You will regret it for the remainder of your life and be physically sick whenever the PTSD flashes bring it to your mind. If you have not read the books, please, please do not watch this movie. It is in no way a representation of the epic books. The movie would leave you concerned that anyone would ever consider making a movie this awful. I try to separate books and movies, and respect each, but this is just too horrifying.

The only good thing about the movie is that it brought previously unknowing persons to the light that is the Inheritance saga. The books are amazing. Well-constructed stories with plenty of both dialog and action. The audiobooks are just as good as the regular books with a whole new depth of immersion. The movie, as compared to the book, is nothing short of atrocious.

Action scenes are okay... other than that I'm one of those that were irked that it didn't follow as closely to the book. A good chunk of scenes take events that occurred from the book, and kind of got spliced together....