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Name: There Be Dragons
Released: 2011-5-6
Cast: Alfonso Bassave, Wes Bentley, Robert Blythe, Alejandro Casaseca, Geraldine Chaplin

There Be Dragons

PG-13
2h 0m
2011

12%

Dougray Scott leads an acclaimed cast in Oscar® Nominee writer/director Roland Joffé's epic story of passion, faith and betrayal. When journalist Robert Torres (Scott) is assigned to write a book about Josemaría Escrivá (Charlie Cox), the controversial founder of Opus Dei, he hope it will bring him closer to his father (Wes Bentley), Escrivá's childhood friend. As Torres uncovers more about his father's past, he learns dark secrets that will change his world forever. Inspired by actual events and featuring Geraldine Chaplin and Olga Kurylenko, There Be Dragons is a rousing epic and a stirring vision of virtue.

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TOMATOMETER®

12%

Reviews

Washington Examiner

Kelly Jane Torrance

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.

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.

January 29, 2018

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National Catholic Reporter

Sr. Rose Pacatte

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.

Unsatisfying, lacking the epic feel it was aiming for, and paid-for image-burnishing for the controversial founder of Opus Dei.

Yes, the film looks beautiful. But unfortunately is stumbles over itself too often to fully realize greatness.

June 22, 2017

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