Dragon Tiger Gate (2. If. there is one Hong Kong movie people are looking to. Dragon Tiger. Gate. Based on the long- running comic book from. Tony Wong Luk- Wong, Dragon Tiger Gate. Pavlovian. responses from action- starved international audiences. Dragon Tiger Gate has it all: copious martial. Donnie Yen. At. its best, Dragon Tiger Gate is an energetic. Yen is the man who makes it happen. But at its worst, Dragon Tiger Gate is uninteresting. Yen gets plenty of blame. He's not the only one at fault, but given his omnipresent. Yen. is the one who gets called out first. Before the film ends, Dragon returns to Dragon Tiger Gate together with Tiger and Turbo, who decides to change his name to Leopard. Category. DRAGON TIGER GATE is the 2nd collaboration of the Wilson Yip-Donnie Yen tag team (The 3rd being 'Flashpoint' in 2007). After the huge success of SPL(2005)(aka. The 2006 movie Dragon Tiger Gate was based on this manhua. Name. Oriental Heroes is the book's official English name. Its Chinese name is pronounced in Cantonese. Dragon Tiger Gate Watch OnlineExpectations. after SPL are sky high, and anything less would. But that's just what Dragon Tiger Gate. Donnie Yen is Dragon. Dragon Tiger Gate, the most righteous. Dragon left. the Gate years ago with his mother (Sheren Teng in. Tiger (Nicholas. Tse). Years later, the two brothers cross paths at. Dragon Tiger Gate Full MovieDragon Tiger Gate is a 2006 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Wilson Yip and featuring fight choreography by Donnie Yen, who also stars in the film. Year: 2006 : Director: Wilson Yip Wai-Shun: Producer: Nansun Shi, Raymond Wong Bak-Ming, Donnie. Lung Fu Moon - Dragon Tiger Gate 2006 English subtitles Donnie Yen,Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue - Duration: 1:45:59. Bernice G. Lecroy 215,128 views. Read the Dragon Tiger Gate movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on Movies.com. Buy Dragon Tiger Gate on Amazon.com FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders. Tiger senses an opportunity. Tiger proceeds to whip major ass, annoying the goons. Ma Kwun (Shaw Brothers legend Chen Kuan- Tai). But Dragon shows up, fists flying and locks of hair. The two tussle briefly. Ma Kwun lets Tiger go. The lesson: even crimelords. However, the two soon. Tiger's friends pick up the "Lousha. Plaque" from the scene of the brawl, and Ma Kwun. The Plaque is a heavy gold badge representing. Jiang Hu concept better understood. Dragon Tiger Gate's comic. Dragon comes after Tiger and his friends. Japanese restaurant brawl (that's two restaurant. Ma Kwun's more dastardly. The fight attracts. Turbo Shek (Shawn Yue wearing a silver. Cue plenty of injured people and nifty slow- motion. Donnie Yen's mug as the wind rustles his. Much of the wind is presumably. Dragon's. punches, but we all know how it's being caused: some. Donnie Yen's face. Ladies and gentlemen: movie magic. But hey, it all entertains - even with an abnormally high level of photogenic. Unlike the gritty bodyslams of SPL. Dragon Tiger Gate goes for a mixture of choreographed. The. artifice of Dragon Tiger Gate can plainly be. Donnie Yen as a man in his twenties?), to the CG- enhanced. Action director Yen gets the most. Nicholas Tse. and Shawn Yue), and director Wilson Yip stages many. But Yip's camera is upstaged heavily by. Yen's action, which uses lots of movement to little. Dragon spends a lot. The fighting is a step below. SPL's bone- crunching action as it lacks a consistent. And. at least the power- to- posing ratio is greater than. The Storm Riders. However, Storm Riders. Dragon Tiger Gate just has obligatory story. The film's first scene is a cutesy first meeting. Tiger and Ma Kwun's daughter Ma Xiaoling (Mainland. Dong Jie), but luckily the film hits overdrive. Japanese restaurant melee. After that, Dragon Tiger. Gate stalls heavily, relying on too many shots. The flashbacks do explain. It's as if someone opened. Logically, this shouldn't. Dragon Tiger Gate. But nothing about the. Backstory gets filled in. Shibumi, evil leader of the Lousha Gate - never feels that involving. After a while, it seems. Dragon Tiger Gate is simply. Wilson Yip's best works. Dragon Tiger Gate. For one thing, the. Shawn Yue's Turbo Shek. Dragon Tiger Gate. Wong Jianglong, played by Yuen Wah in the film's. The two have a couple. Turbo resolves. to train harder, but their story disappears in favor. Dragon and Tiger's estrangement, plus a tragic. Dragon and a Lousha Gate member. Lousha (Li Xiao- Ran). Their romance gets. The other romance, between Ma Xiaoling. Tiger, is only marginally more interesting because. Tse and Dong make a photogenic pair, but their cutesy. Nokia mobile phones. Both Tiger and Xiaoling own Nokias. Turbo Shek and probably everyone else in the. Dragon Tiger Gate. Yay, commercialism! Knocking a movie for. Dragon. Tiger Gate. Nitpicking on the film is easy because. The film has solid production. Wong Jianglong's showdown. Shibumi packs an effective emotional punch). But in the end, the defining memory of Dragon Tiger. Gate is not how exciting the action sequences. No, the defining. Dragon Tiger Gate is how. Donnie Yen is supposed to look, and. Aside from his extreme poses, flowing hairdo. Yen also gets to brood like. Even the film's final showdown is all geared towards. Yen. Dragon shows up to take down Shibumi without. Turbo or Tiger, and his exaggerated. Perhaps a better title for the film should have been. Dragon, or maybe the Greatest Looking. Martial Artist Ever and his Brother. Gripes aside, Dragon Tiger. Gate does have your action fix, and non- fans of. Still, as an actual 9. Dragon Tiger Gate only entertains part. That last gripe once again falls upon Donnie Yen. Ballistic Kiss, anyone?). The man likes to. SPL's gritty trappings. Yen struts across the screen like the Hong Kong Cinema. U2's Bono. But to be fair, Yen is probably. Hong Kong who understands. We should just be glad that he's still trying to give. Dragon Tiger. Gate is a mixed bag, but "mixed bag". Pick. that stuff out, and leave the rest. That's what I. did.
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