Instant Favorite.

Absolutely Fantastic

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I would put my money on Cusack with a strong contender in Brody (most likely his worst screen play performance ever).The film kicks off on a note of "based on a true story" in other words "watch out crap ahead".After a brief BMW commercial for the Chinese market the inevitable takes place. Zero to none effort was made to make the film even remotely accurate - at least they could have tried to get armoury and stuff right.While watching you will ask yourself "do they really mean that?" - apparently they do. Otherwise there is now explanation for the bad "storyline" (there is no story anyway).Even the fight scenes are lacking enthusiasm. Please don't hurt your eyes with this one - bad enough I watched it to the end, which I only did to confirm that this is in fact the worst film I have ever seen.

Every language has it's own rhythm, it's on cadence and it's own sound. The way a language is used affects the way it's community view and express how they perceived their world. Mixing two languages, two cultures, in a film is often a tricky thing, as it needs to successfully communicate to two separate kinds of audience who have differing expectations of what movies should be. Dragon Blade is a silly but admirable attempt at trying to marry English, or rather American, with Chinese cinematic sensibilities. Where it succeeds, is the action. The choreography is solid even if Jackie Chan's age is showing. And it helps that they use a double for John Cusack, as he doesn't have the physicality of an martial action star. The premise of the story had a lot of promise, but it was drowned by the transparently lame attempt at virtue signaling diversity and equality, when it would have made the movie much more interesting if it was approached with cynicism and realism. Politics is about power play and to have a Game of Thrones type power play would have been a more satisfying film. Instead, there were a lot of unnecessary scenes that made the movie feel even longer than it's 2 hour length. The writing was also poor, as it uses expositions and monologue to further the story; a tool often used by Hong Kong and Chinese film industry. The acting is mediocre at best and some of the actors - on both sides - were annoying, but bearable. Amazingly, John Cusack was less annoying than usual. Adrien Brody was alright, Jackie Chan was himself and everyone else was forgettable. Still, it was a fun watch.

Inspired by the story of a roman legion which vanished attacking the Parthian empire in 50 BC, this is a tale of civilizations clashing on the silk road. Huo An (Jackie Chan) leads the Silk Road Protection Squad which tries to keep the peace among the warring factions. They are framed for gold smuggling and sentenced to prison work detail at the Wild Geese Gate. Lucius (John Cusack) leads his Legion to the gate with a blind boy named Publius. They are on the run from Publius' murderous brother Tiberius (Adrien Brody).There continues to be an effort to sell Chinese movies by adding Hollywood elements. This has led to bending and twisting stories to accommodate the additions. The stories feel artificial and manufactured. It's a mess of clunky muddle. There are some nice battle scenes in this one. They are wild fun action but this movie is immediately forgettable.

For me, this film is one of the little jewels sometimes can be missed. It s almost a gargantuan production, it seems to be nothing's been saved to give that film the grandiosity and the depth the director want to transmit to us.A mash up of actors, good actors, featuring different characters we usually are used to know them.I don t wanna extend myself and I apologize for the grammatical mistakes, but to me, this films has tremendous action scenes, very moving dialogues and if we manage to relax our eye upon some historical errors that can be found, it's really enjoyable.Thank you for your attention, happy new year.