Reception
The film opened at #3 in the U.S. box office in the weekend of July 12, 2002, taking in $15,632,281 USD in its first opening weekend, behind Road To Perdition and Men in Black II, which was on its second week at the top.
Reign of Fire received generally mixed to poor reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 40% on the "tomatometer" based on 147 reviews, and labels it "an enjoyable B-movie if you don't use your brain," though the term B-movie is inaccurate (the film had a budget of $60 million). Metacritic gives it a score of 39% based on 30 reviews from critics, with a score of 6.2 (out of 10) from users.
On July 7, 2005, ABC had scheduled a broadcast of Reign of Fire, but because of the terrorist attack on London that day, it was replaced with another movie, Big Fat Liar.
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