Movie: Dragon Tiger Gate

This entry is late because I was really tired, and other than 4 hours of karaoke in the afternoon yesterday, I had spent most of this weekend sleeping.

I watched 龍虎門 on fri night, with en'en, slt, wilfred and ec.











I give the show 3.5 stars out of 5, but you should never take my word for it when it comes to cinema watching, for I have very extraordinary taste.

And all 3.5 stars are for donnie yen. =)

If I am not looking at his fantastic stunts, I am looking at the rest of the stunts thinking how talented donnie yen is to be able to choreograph them.

Donnie yen is the 武术指导 for this show and I must say the stunts are the only thing worth seeing other than donnie yen himself. The plot of the show sucks.

For one, if xiao long (that is donnie yen lah!) is the one who is going to beat shibumi (the bad guy who had strength that was almost paranormal), why isnt there more scenes showing how he trained his skills?

But instead, he took some miracle substance that shibumi gave (who thinks too highly of himself and wanted his opponent to be stronger), saw the women he loves die before him, falls into water and emerged with earth-shattering skills.

What the?

And if it wasnt weird enough, there were scenes depicting how nicholas tse and shawn yue trained, when they will be eventually be beaten by shibumi.

The flow of the show was weird too, because there was too much time spent in the beginning of the show explaining who is who, and the scriptwriters tried too hard to include humour into the show. Towards the middle, the show quickly tells you why there is a need for the grand fight, and gears the audience into believing that the ending part would be highly interesting.

Xiao hu (nic) and shi hei long (shawn) were defeated by shibumi and they had to seek guidance from someone who supposedly had good skills.

For shawn it makes sense, cos his skills sucks to begin with. But for nicholas it is weird, cos he was training under 龍虎門 all along what, how come his skills so lousy one?

But to his credit, his character's skills were merely on the footing, and in real life (as seen on kxll), nicholas really can kick above his head, so his stunts feels very real, unlike shawn's.

Ok, back to the show. Xiao hu and shi hei long , after training, went back to challenge shibumi but was beaten, xiao long came and beat shibumi. End of story.

The whole show is 98 mins, but the last fighting scene is for like 10minutes?

Chey! I changed my mind, it is worth 3 stars only.

And all 3 stars are STILL for donnie yen.