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- 2015
- R
- Lionsgate Premiere
- 2 h 7 m
- 2015
- R
- Lionsgate Premiere
- 2 h 7 m
Summary When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius (Adrien Brody) arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An (Jackie Chan) and his group of trained warriors team up with an elite legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius (John Cusack) to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region. To protect his country and his new ...
Directed By: Daniel Lee
Written By: Daniel Lee
- 2015
- R
- Lionsgate Premiere
- 2 h 7 m
- 2015
- R
- Lionsgate Premiere
- 2 h 7 m
Dragon Blade
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6.2
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Summary When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius (Adrien Brody) arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An (Jackie Chan) and his group of trained warriors team up with an elite legion of defected Roman soldiers led by General Lucius (John Cusack) to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region. To protect his country and his new ...
Directed By: Daniel Lee
Written By: Daniel Lee
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
41
25% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
42% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
41
25% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
42% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
The writer-director has overcome his tendency to weave florid plots that quickly run out of steam, here forging a coherent narrative that’s strong on physical and emotional drive.
Committed performances, a hefty budget and assured hands behind the camera ensure that Dragon Blade delivers on its promise of sprawling battle scenes, intriguing culture clashes and budding bromances, where its giddily high concept and unlikely casting may so easily have seen it fail.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
6.2
54% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
29% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
18% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
6.2
54% Positive
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
29% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
18% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Dragon Blade" is a solidly constructed epic that, despite its many battle scenes, has a strong message of pacifism and unity.
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A perfect movie for Jackie Chan, with touching scenes and some Age of Empires vibes.
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There are alliances and betrayals aplenty, but writer/director Daniel Lee seems more concerned with establishing and maintaining an epic look and feel than in providing cohesion to the narrative.
The picture never quite finds its tone: It's neither go-for-broke outrageous enough to be consistently funny, nor energetic enough to be viscerally entertaining. It's neither as bad as you might fear, nor as much fun as you might hope.
The movie's grandiose emotional quotient never feels any more real than its ham-fisted dialogue, dubious accents, strained "Kumbaya" moments or eclectic hairdos.
Dragon Blade is the kind of nutsy maximalist entertainment that isn’t content merely to tap a handful of influences. Instead, it stuffs an entire encyclopedia of dicey ideas (visual, narrative, political) into a blender to create a wacky, eyeball-popping and -glazing extravaganza.
Slacker and even less involving than the similarly terrible global kill-fest Last Knights, but easier to watch for the inadvertent camp value of two of the prominent performances.
An interesting story line, East meets West, but in 56 BC. The Romans, as in "Gladiator", are killing each other for power. The Good Romans head East to escape and run into the protectors of the Eastern tribes along the Silk Road. Of course, they meet common threats and so unite to survive, and become friends. Did this really happen? Probably not. But an entertaining movie if you like Jackie Chan acrobatics.
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While the story of the movie itself isn't that bad and if you like Jackie Chan movies, then this movie definitely has that Jackie Chan movie vibe, but I think they were trying to make some action scenes with too many effects and especially the slowing down of the action bothered me. You know, if they would do it Matrix style and pull it off it might have been cool, but here it just feels like movie starts playing slower and it feels so unnecessary. It even happened at one point where the kid cried and they slowed that down too. Why? Not only that, even though I rate Brody as an actor, he felt so out of place here. The movie seemed to have lot of budget but still felt like a low budget one because the acting in my opinion wasn't that great. The message and the story line was good, but how they pulled it off - I think the movie had much higher potential
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This is the first film I'm reviewing in my 24 years of life on this planet. The sole reason why is so as to save at least one person from making the horrible horrible mistake I made of watching this festering mess of a film. It took me a month to finish it, I kept stopping it and returning (cause mama ain't raise no quitter) but I needed the breaks so my brain could recover from watching the absolute **** my eyeballs were subject to.
The best way to put this is that my senses were assaulted with the worst film in centuries.
The set pieces were cringe worthy, the dialogue was a steaming pile of excrement and I never thought I'd see with mine own two eyes a film with worse dialogue than fifty shades of grey AND twilight combined. That alone earns this film the unique distinction of being the smelliest most prestigious turd, distinguished in its position as the finest of the worst.
This film was directed by an illiterate toddler, I am convinced of that. And Mr potato head from toy story wrote the action sequences. You know when 2 year olds play with their toys and stage elaborate fights and stories? Yeah, this is what happens when you give that toddler an expensive camera and £60m to make their story come to life. But then again I've heard better stories from babies farts than this film.
The acting is the last thing I'll comment on, it's so bad that if I was an extra in the film, I wouldn't accept payment in cash, I would ask them to delete my face and name from the film in its entirety as payment. How Adrien Brody, John Cusack and Jackie Chan wilfully chose to appear in this film is anyone's guess. Did they think it'll never be seen? Or would it only be screened in the ISS? I dunno.
To the director, screen writers and everyone attached to the creation of this cancerous bilge of a film, I hope you all get stung by hornets on the daily and stubs your little toes on sharp angles nightly for the rest of your lives. May your homes always be cold af and your heating break down in the depths of winter.
Pretty sure the people rating it more than 2 stars are paid russian trolls trying to make life even more miserable for us westerners.
I wish I could give this film 0.1 stars but I can't.
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Production Company
Sparkle Roll Media,
Huayi Brothers Media,
Shanghai Film Group,
Visualizer Film Productions,
Fable House,
Home Media & Entertainment Fund,
Alibaba Group,
Tencent Video,
China Film & TV Capital,
Jackie & JJ Productions
Release Date Sep 4, 2015
Duration 2 h 7 m
Rating R
Tagline When the Eagle meets the Dragon.
Website
http://dragon-blade.com/
Awards
Huading Award
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Jackie Chan International Action Film Week
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hong Kong Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
