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Four Dragons

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

Rented this and i must say i am almost as disappointed as the other lone reviewer. The film looks recent and looks great. Good cinematography, scenery, and locales and the fight choreography is pretty good. Sharp, fluid, fights with some nice kicks, stunt-work and some stylized scenes make for fairly exciting action.

However....

The dubbing is really bad and makes the movie seem extra bland and lifeless. The four dragons or heroes of the film come off as uninteresting. The story is straight-forward enough for the most part(rebellion and betrayal), but the dubbing i'm sure has dumbed down the characters and situations to the point where you probably won't care. There is a love sub-plot sort of, but that is short-changed too. There are a few good fight scenes, but one of them is repeated quite a bit(2 or 3 times), to the point where i had thought it accidentally skipped back to that chapter. The animated blood is odd too. Not sure if this was an added thing for the western release or if the Asian filmmakers actually put this in. And the betrayal part of the plot, as well as the ending of the film, is rather abrupt and leaves you thinking "that's it?!?"

Worth a rental at best as is. But honestly, if you never saw this, you wouldn't misss much but a few good fights scenes(a three-way fight in a cavern, a cage fight sequence, and the lengthy fight that repeats mentioned earlier). 2 1/2 rounded up to 3 cause i do think the fights and camera-work/visuals were good. Who knows, this might be a 4-star film in its original form, but the dubbing drags it to mediocre at best.

First off amazon says this movie is from 1992 but it's actually a recent movie.To tell you the truth I cant even tell you the plot because it was to nonsensical for me to follow. Now considering this is a Kung Fu movie the plot doesn't really matter if the fight scenes are awesome but unfortunately they are below average and few and far between. It's not so much that the scenes are poorly choreagraghed as the over directing, IE zooming in and out and going fast the slow then fast again. But what was really annoying was the animated blood that would splatter across the screen during fight scenes. So overall avoid this and get one of the other 100s of Kung Fu movies that are far more entertaining.

Spoiler Alert! This is a waste of time don't even watch it. The 4 main stars (Dragon, Blaze, Ace, and Tiger) couldn't even hardly fight. I thought when this movie came on that these guys were going to be bad as hell. Not! All this movie kept doing is rewinding back and showing me scenes from earlier on in the movie. They spent about an hour doing this and the movie is only about an hour and 30 minutes. Oh and to make it even worse, they didn't start training to be better fighters until like an hour and 8 minutes into the movie. Leaving about 22 minutes to get to the great fighting. And then they still weren't good fighters. Then They put things in the story line that didn't move the story line along because it had no purpose to the story line. Such as the bad guys daughter liking one of the 4 main stars. What was her purpose? From what I saw all she did was have him repeat the rules for the watcher of the movie. Again with the repetition. Then what was with Blaze turning trader. There was no good enough reason behind this part of the story. What I really hated was how they try to make scenes so dramatic when they were really nothing. Case in point, when Blaze met with Master Sam about his father's killer and then turned trader. Where was the drama in that? This movie was a waste of film.

I could not imagine how bad this movie is until I watched it. It was so painful to finish this movie. The plot is all over the place and extremely hard to follow. The audio is not on the same level all the time. When they were talking Malay, the audio drops to very low level. Just a bad movie overall, please do not waste time or money to buy or even watch this. You won't miss anything.

This film was utter tripe! Wan't sure what was happening in terms of the plot, but I wasn't watching because of the story. I was hoping for some decent martial art sequences, and was denied even that. Overly stylized, weak story, poor fight sequences; it's a movie to be avoided.

I was highly disappointed with this movie. It was almost painful to watch, but seeing to it that I bought it ($9.99) and thinking it would be good after reading the back cover, I had to finish it. The only good thing about the movie was the location/scenery the shots were filmed. Other than that, the fights were so few and far in between that it made it so painful to just sit there and "wait for something to happen". With all the supposedly talented cast to their own style of martial arts involved, the film never showed their true talent. Also, what was with the fake blood splatter? Was this supposed to make the fight scenes interesting? It made it quite annoying!

Save your money, even if it is just to rent it. Don't say I didn't warn you.