Starring: Chen Kuan-Tai, Yuen Wah, Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Alan Lam Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Tai Seng Number of Items: 2 Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 27, 2007 Running Time: 94 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Exciting and beautiful action scenes. Fun to watch due to it's comic-like tone. It's action scenes are exciting and beautiful. It's fun to watch due to it's comic-like tone.
It's one of interesting films starring Donnie Yen. Others are Kill Zone, Flash Point and Iron Monkey. I own it.
ONE of DONNIES BEST His fight scene on the football field is SICK!! Also the guy with the nunchucks (spelling?) was cool to. The end scene got a little to cartoonish for me, but overall I give the movie five stars it was awesome!
Nutritious as a bag of chips - and equally tasty Dragon Tiger Gate goes down easy. It doesn't ask a lot (except in the middle) and delivers a pleasing visual aesthetic and plenty of action.
Here we have all the features of a typical Hong Kong martial arts film: a school of Kung Fu caught up in the feuding between rival clans of gangsters, a conflicted lead with a true heart, an emphasis on action, and only the most rudimentary elements of plot, character, or theme. The middle section plods along wearily connecting the dots of the story, but really, no one is watching this for the romance or the drama, and that's just as well because the script and the acting don't manage to evoke even a hint of empathy for its characters.
Where the film shines is in its sets, costuming, direction, and choreography. There's probably not much here that hasn't been done before, except perhaps for the bird's eye view of a three-room fight, with the camera panning back and forth across the rooms and down the hallway, and in making the head gangster of Hong Kong a comic-book villain in a cape and mask who lives in castle-like fortress with suitably moody lighting. The leads are coiffed and dressed in the androgynous style popular across East Asia, and hang out in trendy looking homes and neighborhoods.
See this one with your brain turned off, a beer in one hand, and the remote (for skipping through the middle chapters) in the other.
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Donnie Yen does it again! Martial arts fans have been searching and searching... waiting for a GOOD movie to come out that has that perfect mix of storyline AND action. Where choreography and plot are prioritized. In Dragon Tiger Gate, Donnie Yen does a comic-turned movie where there is a perfect blend of story and martial arts. The mixture of fighting styles in this movie is superb and executed with finesse. Donnie is his usual "cool" self and proves once again, why he is the "underground" martial arts movie master!
for all of us emotionally scarred by the film Double Dragon... ...buy this film. If you loved the Double Dragon arcades & Double Dragon II for the NES and you were just hurt at the approach of Double Dragon in theaters especially casting a member of Patry Of Five to play Billy a.k.a. Bimmy...you need this film to be complete again! If you love martial arts films in the modern day dress attire minus the traditional robe wear, this is for you. Except it was weird that in the flashback to when they were kids they still had the same wardrobe...I mean, who dressed like they do in present day back in the day?...sorry but parents rarely give their kids exactly what they will look like 10 or 14 yaers in the future at the moment...weird. BACK ON TRACK NOW! Those who love martial arts action including the fantasy special power moves, this one is great for you. (Super Sentai fans will enjoy) If you like anime you love that this film is based off of a comic and they have hair in their face when they are talking and fighting but still that will not limit their much needed vision! (most non-anime people will adjust or not) I'm glad this is a Tai Seng release and not some bigger release label because then they might slap on some dumb down advertiser on it like "if you liked Kill Bill or Iron Monkey", or even a "Quentin Tarantino Presents..." (sorry QT fans but QT had little to do with Hero unlike Guillermo Del Toro presenting the Orphanage and actually taking part in its make) then you will pleased with this release.
Tai Seng rocks, Dragon Dynasty peops are almost as good. Martial Arts fans get or check out this film!
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