Title: Dragon BladeRating: 6.5/10
Director: Daniel Lee
Dragon Blade is a Chinese historical movie Starring Huo An (Jackie Chan), A warrior who is part of the Silk road peacekeeping force, Lucius (John Cusack) a Roman general who is being hunted by Tiberius (Adrien Brody) Consul of the Roman Empire. Tiberius had tried to kill his little brother Publius but Lucius interferes and saves him and flees to the silk road. Taking refuge with his army at the Wild Geese Gate which is a ruined fortress. He and Huo An combine forces and restore the fortress to its former glory, Meanwhile Tiberius comes looking for them.
This film looks extremely promising but the mediocre acting done by John Cusack and Adrien Brody tones it down, However the superb acting done by Jackie Chan is the saving grace of this movie. As expected by any Chinese movie, This movie has some pretty intense and expertly choreographed action scenes, From battles to chases this movie lives up to the expectations of an action film.
However the movie is not very well balanced in terms of its plot. It has an extremely silly plot and an even sillier antagonist who fails to capture the essence of playing the bad guy. One of the good things about this movie is that the ending is simply one of the best and it does not come without a heavy sacrifice.
Perhaps a very underrated movie due to abysmal marketing Dragon Blade is not that bad if one simply ignores the bad acting and abysmal dubbing due to the movie being in Chinese.
Perhaps not historically accurate but Dragon Blade is really entertaining when combined with Jackie Chan's humorous acting.
REVIEWED BY:
Yasir Zafar
First of His Name
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