No Saint George, No princess, Just terror.
Dragon Fighter is a 2003 Syfy Science Fiction Action film directed by Phillip J. Roth starring Dean Cain.
When a group of scientists and newly appointed security guard (Cain) are shocked to discover that a creature cloned from a recently uncovered sample of DNA found in England that dates back to the Middle Ages is actually a real fire-breathing dragon, they are then forced to find way to escape their underground facility before the creature slaughters them all.
Tropes:
- Dragons Are Dinosaurs: It is speculated by the scientists that the dragon is actually a descendent of the dinosaurs.
- Dragons Versus Knights: The film opens with six knights hunting a dragon that has slaughtered a village, all but one ends up dying with the dragon in a cave-in.
- Jurassic Farce: The movie is essentially a low-budget knock-off of Jurassic Park with a single dragon instead of a bunch of dinosaurs.
- Mad Scientist: Dr. Ian Drakovitch is revealed to be this, being obsessed with dragons and knowing the DNA belonged to a dragon all along.
- Maker of Monsters: Drakovitch.
- Mockbuster: Alien meets Jurassic Park meets Reign of Fire.
- Our Dragons Are Different: The dragon is a rhinoceros-sized bipedal creature with skin thick enough to withstand a shotgun at point-blank that is speculated to be an evolved dinosaur.
- Punny Name: Drakovitch… guess what he has an obsession with.
