Dragon Tiger Gate, the superhero action movie starring Donnie Yen and based on the popular Hong Kong comic. Wilson Yip once again offers up a movie that is visually inventive, and as with his other collaborations with Donnie, is full of martial arts goodness. They really do play with comic book imagery, without being slaves to the original materials. The commentary by a panel of experts reveals that there are many important differences between the comics and the film (the focus on Dragon rather than Tiger, who lives and dies, etc.), and I'm almost glad to not be familiar with the former. As it stands, the film turns into an almost surreal struggle between Heaven and Hell, in part because the villain sort of comes out of nowhere and is not fully developed.
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Dragon Tiger Gate, the superhero action movie starring Donnie Yen and based on the popular Hong Kong comic. Wilson Yip once again offers up a movie that is visually inventive, and as with his other collaborations with Donnie, is full of martial arts goodness. They really do play with comic book imagery, without being slaves to the original materials. The commentary by a panel of experts reveals that there are many important differences between the comics and the film (the focus on Dragon rather than Tiger, who lives and dies, etc.), and I'm almost glad to not be familiar with the former. As it stands, the film turns into an almost surreal struggle between Heaven and Hell, in part because the villain sort of comes out of nowhere and is not fully developed.Jace Lightner
Poetry in motion.Blade22
fights were excellent