Director: Daniel Lee
Writer: Daniel Lee
Stars: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Lin Peng, and Amanda Wang
127 minutes, 2015
Dragon Blade is a Chinese adventure film which takes place in the ancient times where every nation or race speaks in their own language except for the Romans. They learnt English for the sake of the movie.
We are in the first period of the Han Dynasty (48 BC). Jackie Chan's character is a commander who has a Hun heritage. He leads a special division of soldiers and helps the Chinese to protect and maintain the peace od the Silk Road between the all kinds of races living around the area. Due to a conspiracy he and his squad is wrongly stentenced on penal servitude. During their time they meet a Roman legion. They form an alliance which complicates the events even further. John Cusack and Adrien Brody play Roman generals in the film.
There were some quite entertaining moments like when the Chinese and Roman armies join forces to rebuild a wall around a huge building. The theme and imagery of the movie remembered me of Gladiator in places.
It was so nice to see John Cusack and Jackie Chan together in the same movie because I like both actors. However I just cannot say the same in case of Adrien Brody. It was written on his face that he didn't want to be in this movie at all. Even a wooden rod could have played the role of a mad Roman general much better than that. It would have been a much more believable performance.
In Dragon Blade I was interested in the drama and the fights too. Jackie had more action scenes than in Police Story 2013 Lockdown. This time the editing and the choreography of the fight scenes were much better. In Police Story 2013 Lockdown these ended up too fragmented.
However I didn't understand why were they trying to present it like a true story. We get a subtitle in the beginning which says "based on a true story". It felt like a fantasy sprinkled with just a few historical facts or real life events. It could have worked much better as a fantasy. This movie is based on true events just as much as 300. Dragon Blade is interesting to watch because of the performances and the action scenes even though it has got a naive story.
There were some quite entertaining moments like when the Chinese and Roman armies join forces to rebuild a wall around a huge building. The theme and imagery of the movie remembered me of Gladiator in places.
It was so nice to see John Cusack and Jackie Chan together in the same movie because I like both actors. However I just cannot say the same in case of Adrien Brody. It was written on his face that he didn't want to be in this movie at all. Even a wooden rod could have played the role of a mad Roman general much better than that. It would have been a much more believable performance.
In Dragon Blade I was interested in the drama and the fights too. Jackie had more action scenes than in Police Story 2013 Lockdown. This time the editing and the choreography of the fight scenes were much better. In Police Story 2013 Lockdown these ended up too fragmented.
However I didn't understand why were they trying to present it like a true story. We get a subtitle in the beginning which says "based on a true story". It felt like a fantasy sprinkled with just a few historical facts or real life events. It could have worked much better as a fantasy. This movie is based on true events just as much as 300. Dragon Blade is interesting to watch because of the performances and the action scenes even though it has got a naive story.
Dragon Blade was shown in the cinemas from the 18th February 2015, at the summer in that year it had its DVD release. The movie had its American premiere on 4th September.
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