
A young journalist long ago rejected by his now aged and dying father finds himself investigating one of his father's former friends, a candidate for canonization. Uncovering the two men's complicated relationship from childhood through the horrors of the Spanish Civil War unveils a compelling drama filled with passion, betrayal, love, and religion. An action-packed story set during a murderous time in history that ultimately serves the present by revealing the importance and... (Full plot summary below)
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A young journalist long ago rejected by his now aged and dying father finds himself investigating one of his father's former friends, a candidate for canonization. Uncovering the two men's complicated relationship from childhood through the horrors of the Spanish Civil War unveils a compelling drama filled with passion, betrayal, love, and religion. An action-packed story set during a murderous time in history that ultimately serves the present by revealing the importance and timeless power of forgiveness.
Leave your thoughts about There Be Dragons.
| Movie DearestFr. Chris CarpenterA visually stunning, undeniably intriguing saga about a controversial Catholic saint. Overly earnest at times...but this is still one of the more genuinely spiritual contemporary films to hit the big screen. |
| AV ClubAlison WillmoreCertainly looks lavish, from the battle scenes to the beautiful period costuming, but it's so stilted and humorless that it's almost campy. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekDespite its high-mindedness, an almost complete misfire...a lopsided film as well as a turgid, boring one. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertBernardo Bertolucci and David Lean used to make movies like this. More, please. |
| Decent Films GuideSteven D. GreydanusAlas, it's precisely these glimpses of the film There Be Dragons might have been that make its failure, and the lost opportunity it represents, all the more disappointing. |
| San Antonio Current Kiko MartinezIt's unfortunate director Roland Joffé 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. |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff Meyers...whitewashing the origins of the controversial Opus Dei movement, this lesson in unabashed embellishment will fail to excite any but the most starry-eyed Catholic. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe flashback sequences sometimes come across like "'For Whom the Bell Tolls' for Dummies." |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum[A] florid, convoluted historical drama from writer-director Roland Joffé... |
| Christianity TodayFrederica Mathewes-GreenA movie doesn't need CGI dragons to be exciting. But it does need real characters and conflict -- it needs to be a real story. Here, that story always is just beyond our grasp. |