Rob Cohen (2) (1949–)

Nostalgia glasses do of course heavily colour my impression of "Dragonheart" to this day, it arriving as it did in a time where big screen fantasy and dragons were even rarer than today, but I'd hold the film holds up quite well. The villain is exquisitely unlikable (where so often such villains are simply bland), the interplay between Quaid and the dragon is charming and cosy, and the story is reasonably different and inventive in its set up (if predictable enough in its eventual resolution). Finally, the film has a score blessed with a beautiful and memorable main theme, which alone helps carry this into a quite pleasant movie experience. I suspect this would strike me as decent but a bit bland should I see it for the first time today. As it is, though, I saw it at a far more impressionable age, and find I still like it a good bit more than that.… (more)