Firstly, stop calling it "Star Wars with Dragons". George Lucas admitted to full-blown lifting the archetypes of the Hero's Journey from Joseph Campbell and plugging them into space with little to no variation to create the first Star Wars movie. So if you damn this for being unoriginal, then you should damn Star Wars as well.
Secondly, the book Eragon by Christopher Paolini is actually pretty good and deserved a much better adaptation than this. Don't get me wrong, some faithless adaptations are pretty good films (The How To Train Your Dragon movies are nothing like the Hiccup books by Cressida Cowell but they're good films nonetheless.) That said, this wasn't one of them.
Are there some good things this movie? Yes but they were all in the book which the genuinely bad things about this film weren't. (For instance, in this movie Durza's a unidimensional character whereas in the book, he actually has his own backstory which humanizes him.)
If there's one takeaway I want to have from this review, it's this. Even (perhaps especially) if you hated this movie, give the book a chance.
Secondly, the book Eragon by Christopher Paolini is actually pretty good and deserved a much better adaptation than this. Don't get me wrong, some faithless adaptations are pretty good films (The How To Train Your Dragon movies are nothing like the Hiccup books by Cressida Cowell but they're good films nonetheless.) That said, this wasn't one of them.
Are there some good things this movie? Yes but they were all in the book which the genuinely bad things about this film weren't. (For instance, in this movie Durza's a unidimensional character whereas in the book, he actually has his own backstory which humanizes him.)
If there's one takeaway I want to have from this review, it's this. Even (perhaps especially) if you hated this movie, give the book a chance.