Of course Durza and the Urgals won’t stop before they kill the boy and his dragon.
Meanwhile Eragon learns how to communicate with his dragon Saphira (the voice of Rachel Weisz) through his thoughts and they learn about their extraordinary powers the more they connect. Brom helps the boy and his voracious pet get to the Varden a group of rebels lead by the tough Aijhad ( Djimon Hounsou) who have been waiting for just this moment. Eragon seeks advice from a grizzled outspoken villager Brom ( Jeremy Irons) who explains to the boy he is a dragon rider part of a legendary group killed off by the king long ago. As Eragon quickly finds out it’s an egg that hatches into a dragon and as cute as it is it eats meat-lots of it. He needs to get the stone back to the king because well it’s not really a stone. Eragon finds a large blue stone sent to him by a princess named Arya ( Sienna Guillory) who has been captured by an evil sorcerer Durza ( Robert Carlyle).
The belief that just because your movie looks a bit like "Lord of the Rings" it must be good like it, is incorrect.Based on the widely popular novel by Christopher Paolini we meet Eragon ( Ed Speleers) a simple farm boy living in a land overrun by evil King Galbatorix ( John Malkovich) and his murderous army of Urgals. It seems that the makers of this movie thought, "This movie has swords, magic, old English style speech, horses and dragons, it therefore must be good".
Eragon is a poor movie at best that fails to be entertaining, especially when compared to the other movies it is copying they style of such as "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter". Every character in the entire movie is like this, if someone is crying over a slain comrade all they do is frown and have a look of "dang it" on their face, if someone is cheering over victory, all they do is leer and go "woooo". Now normally people seeing a small monster burst out of a rock would express quite some level of surprise or shock, but all our star does is raise his eyebrows slightly and give a pathetic tiny gasp.
For example there is the scene where the main character discovers that the stone he has found isn't a rock but actually a dragon egg as the egg hatches.
The acting of the movie is far below par, as it seems that nobody in this movie seems to have emotions as if all the characters were cyborgs from the Terminator series or Steven Segal. It almost seems as if the movie was written by a 9th grade high school student for his English class.
Characters come and go as they please with no relevance to the story, such as the archer who just suddenly appears out of nowhere and then just aimlessly follows the main characters without actually adding anything to the story.
Entire scenes of the movie plod along with absolutely no meaning or relevance to the story, scenes which should have been cut out of the movie to make the narrative flow better. The story is rushed quickly jumping from one thing to the next without any plot development so the viewer is left constantly wondering what is going on, one second our main character is a naive farmer, the next he is suddenly a fully experienced warrior with absolutely no evidence showing exactly where he gained this experience from. The writing of the movie is by far its weakest aspect. The story is rushed unexplained and poorly thought out, the acting is below par, and the cinematography is annoying with its tilted angles and range so close to the action so that you can't see what is going on.