Dragon Tiger Gate Review

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2. Nov 09, 2006 Unfortunately this impetus is diffused by the final act and confrontation between Dragon, Tiger, Turbo, and Shibumi which doesn’t show-piece enough Kung fu and relies too much on flash CGI moves. I’ve probably made Dragon Tiger Gate sound a lot worse than it is. The truth is that at just under 95minutes long the film never drags at all.

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Dragon 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. The film is based on the manhuaOriental Heroes, which bears the same Chinese title as the film. The film's release in all English-speaking territories is handled by The Weinstein Company.^[1]

Dragon Tiger Gate. 2006 TV-14 1h 34m Chinese Movies. Dragon and his fellow students at Dragon Tiger Gate martial arts school team up to battle the ferocious villain Shibumi. Starring: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue. Dragon Tiger Gate tells the story of two half-brothers, Dragon and Tiger, who learn of one another's existence the hard way: by getting into a knock-down, drag-out fight in a restaurant after.

A punching bag constructed for the film, measuring about 8 feet (2.4 m) high, 5 feet (1.5 m) wide and weighing about 400 pounds, was certified as the world's largest by Guinness World Records.^[2]

Plot[edit]

Dragon Tiger Gate is an academy established by two powerful martial artists. It aims to train students in martial arts in order to uphold justice and combat the threat of the Triad. It is also a haven for children who had been orphaned by the Triad. While Luocha Cult is a Pan-Asia heretic cult/drug trafficking organization led by the dictating might of its cult leader: Shibumi the Jashin of Frame Cloud. Shibumi, who is the only master of the legendary Yijin Jing and has many fearsome Kung Fu masters at his disposal, controls the entire Asia-Pacific Underground Drug market with Hong Kong as his base of operations.

The story begins with the two sons of Fu Hu Wong, one of the founders of the academy, who were each born to different mothers. The older is named Dragon and the younger is named Tiger. When the boys were young, Dragon's mother left the academy and gave Dragon half of a Jade amulet pendant and told him that his half-brother, Tiger, has the other half. When Dragon's mother was killed in a fire, Dragon was taken under the care of the Triad boss, Ma Kun, and he grew up to become his bodyguard. Ma Kun's gang is a subject of the evil Luocha Cult, which supervises Hong Kong's Drug dealing on its behalf. Tiger was raised by his elder uncle, Master Xian Lung Wong, after his parents' disappearance.

Several years later, Tiger and his friends are dining in a restaurant and encounter Ma Kun and his men, who are receiving the Luocha Plaque. A symbol of authority within the Luocha Cult indicates that the holder is second only to the cult's leader, Shibumi. Ma Kun and the leader of the White Lions Gang were arguing over the plaque when Tiger accidentally interrupts the meeting. One of Tiger's friends makes off with the plaque while Tiger starts a fight with the gangsters. Just then, Dragon appears and fights Tiger, whom he does not recognize to be his half-brother. Ma Kun calls for Dragon to pull back.

Later that night, Dragon confronts Tiger and his friends at a Japanese restaurant to take back the plaque. Tiger and his friends have been drugged by Scaly, one of Ma Kun's lackeys, who also wanted to retrieve the plaque to prove to his boss that he is the better man. Scaly and his followers fight Dragon over possession of the plaque. Turbo Shek, another eater at the restaurant, is aroused by the commotion and he joins the fight on Dragon's side. Dragon and Turbo defeat Scaly and his men and Dragon takes back the plaque from Tiger. Just then, Tiger discovers that Dragon has the other half of the jade amulet pendant and realizes that Dragon is his half-brother.

Turbo follows Tiger back to Dragon Tiger Gate, wanting to be enrolled into the academy to improve his martial arts skills. He is refused by the current leader of the academy, Master Wong, for his arrogance. Dismayed, Turbo waits outside the academy and promises not to leave unless he is accepted as a student. Master Wong agrees to spar with Turbo and defeats him easily. Turbo is humbled and accepted by Master Wong as a student.

Meanwhile, Ma Kun returns the Luocha Plaque to signify his retirement. He is supported by Dragon, who wants to return to Dragon Tiger Gate, and his daughter Ma Xiaoling, who wants a simple life. Shibumi sees this as an insult and sends his henchmen, the Double Devils, to kill Ma Kun. He uses his subordinate Rosa to lure Dragon away while his minions kill Ma Kun. Dragon returns to rescue Ma Kun, but it is too late. Dragon slays the Double Devils after a vicious fight and leaves Ma Xiaoling in his brother's care before leaving. Although he collapses on a grassland after succumbing to his wounds, he survives after having a vision of his young self giving him the jade pendant (his mother once gave him). Meanwhile, Tiger befriends the grieving Ma Xiaoling.

Shibumi was impressed with Dragon for defeating his henchmen and goes to Dragon Tiger Gate to issue a challenge. With Dragon absent, Master Wong, Tiger, and Turbo takes on Shibumi's challenge but were no match for him. As Master Wong had managed to put up a fight before being defeated, he is deemed worthy enough to die at Shibumi's hands while Shibumi spares the severely wounded Tiger and Turbo for their lack of skill. Ma Xiaoling, realizing that Shibumi will eventually come back for her and the rest of them and with Dragon not there, they would lose just as they had this time, brings Tiger and Turbo to Mount Baiyun to seek help from Master Qi as Dragon senses the passing of Master Wong and returns only to find the demolished Dragon Tiger Gate as he realizes he is too late to protect Master Wong, his brother and Xiaoling and screams in sadness before collapsing. Master Qi heals the wounded Tiger and Turbo and trains them for their incoming final battle with Shibumi, including teaching new martial arts techniques: Spinning Lightning Dragon Kick and Invulnerable Golden Bell Technique. Dragon also practices to fight Shibumi for the first and final time after having reminisced of his time with Xiaoling and appears to have developed a new one.

Tiger and Turbo storm Shibumi's Black Pagoda to stop his reign of terror once and for all and engage him in a fierce fight, using all their greatly improved martial arts abilities and the new techniques they have learned to battle him. However, despite putting up a far better fight than before and even being praised by Shibumi for their improved abilities, Tiger and Turbo are ultimately still outmatched and severely beaten. As Shibumi mocks them for having embarrassed the techniques they have learned and is about to finally kill them, Dragon appears to engage Shibumi, tossing the Plaque back in honor of the Gate, and after luring Shibumi away from his injured brother and Turbo, engages him calmly with his improved abilities as he gains the upper hand and even mocks Shibumi to provoke his temper, eventually killing him with his Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms technique. Before the film ends, Dragon returns to Dragon Tiger Gate together with Tiger and Turbo (who decides to change his name to Leopard) to carry on Master Wong's legacy.

Cast[edit]

• Donnie Yen as Dragon Wong / Wong Siu Long
  • Howard Sit as young Dragon
• Nicholas Tse as Tiger Wong
  • Tam Chun-ho as young Tiger
• Shawn Yue as Turbo Shek / Dragon Long
• Dong Jie as Ma Xiaoling
  • Isabella Leong as Ma Xiaoling (voice)
• Chen Kuan-tai as Ma Kun
• Yu Kang as Shibumi
  • Louis Koo as Shibumi (voice)
• Li Xiaoran as Lousha
  • Ella Koon as Lousha (voice)
  • Chan Kwan-king as young Lousha
• Yuen Wah as Master Wong
• Wong Yuk-long as Master Qi
• Vincent Sze as Scaly
• Tommy Yuen as Xing
• Sam Chan as Ming
• Alan Lam as Patch
• Nick Lam as Hei
• Xing Yu as Fan
• Yan Hua as Stick
• Sheren Tang as Dragon's mother

Sequel[edit]

In a Hong Kong interview with the production crew, it was quoted that the cast and crew intends to create a sequel to expand the story on screen by summer of 2007. However, with the original cast committed to a long list of other projects, there has been no indication of any level of production or completion by the announced date. As of now, there has been no further mention of a sequel.

References[edit]

1. ^Weinstein Watch: Dragon Tiger GateArchived 13 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine, Twitchfilm.net, 11 April 2006 (Retrieved 26 July 2006).
2. ^Dragon Tiger Gate Enters Guinness World RecordsArchived 15 July 2006 at the Wayback Machine, CRIENGLISH.com, 9 July 2006 (Retrieved 26 July 2006).

External links[edit]

• Dragon Tiger Gate at IMDb
• Dragon Tiger Gate at AllMovie
• Dragon Tiger Gate at the Hong Kong Movie Database
• Dragon Tiger Gate on LoveAsianFilm.com

Dragon Tiger Gate Review

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Dragon 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. The film is based on the popular Hong Kong manhua, Oriental Heroes, which bears the same Chinese name as the movie.

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• Donnie Yen in cargo pants wearing a cheap wig pretending to be a teenager out from the pages of a manga is not as fun as it sounds.

• This is the cargo pantiest martial arts movie ever made.

• 'Instead of believing in some god you should believe in yourself.
  And I WILL protect you!'

  'Dragon Tiger Gate' is a martial arts flick adapted from a comic book, directed by Wilson Yip and stars Donnie Yen who's also responsible for the choreographies.

  It's a pretty fantastical story full of superhuman fighters with terrible, terrible wigs and an over the top evil masked villain.

  Now there's a bunch of cool elements in these fights, mainly Donnie Yen's fists but there are hardly enough fights and far too much melodrama and of course the comic book approach makes this a big wire fu fest.

  Nicholas Tse and Shawn Yue are great young martial arts talents but with these fake fights and…

• “We’re back, my brother and me.”

  A movie as good as it’s wigs (it’s wigs are quite silly, don’t make much sense and are too long but also goofy and lots of fun). The fights are also pretty great.

• Proving to be the HK action duo to beat, 2006 saw another Donnie Yen and Wilson Yip collaboration with a far more vibrant and over the top setting than we've come to expect from the Ip Man. A modern day fantasy through the 2006 lens, Dragon Tiger Gate finds two supernaturally gifted martial artists going up against an even more supernatural criminal organisation.

  This is very much a comic book movie, as it announces with a faux-Marvel title sequence. Whether there is an original source material or not I don't know, but the speed and power of the fighters is far above human and Yen & Yip use this to craft some insane, over the top set pieces full of color…

• something went down in the wig department and im not sure what but something most definitely happened. my guess is that they wanted to buy 1 bad wig but accidentally made a bulk order of 100 of the same bad wig. now having used the entire wig budget and not wanting to let them go to waste they decided to actually use all 100 bad wigs. i could be wrong however and they somehow just thought the wigs were neat

• soundtrack level = god-tier

  Donnie Yen in one of his best roles.

• Wilson Yip makes an admirable commitment to making his epic kung fu manga adaptation look like an epic kung fu manga. Special effects and character designs are just dripping cheese, including Donnie Yen's wig, which is not at all concealing that he's in his mid-40s here. The fight choreography is clean, graceful and attractive, but in an era of brass-balled insanity (see: Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais) it ends up feeling a little pat. Yip wisely pours more of his juice into the characters' interlaced narrative arcs, which are heart-tugging and melodramatic in all the right ways. Not unlike a lot of shounen manga, actually.

• does anyone know if this was based on a comic book

• Donnie Yen in a bad wig kicking people. I'm in...

• Hoo boy I love this stupid movie

  From 2005-2008 Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen teamed up for a movie a year, Yip directing with Yen starring/serving as action director. Dragon Tiger Gate was their 2006 collab and it sort of speaks directly to me

  Comic book/Kung fu movie starring Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, and Shawn Yue? Down. And I actually never realized until this revisit that Louis Koo plays the bad guy, seems like it should be a crime to put him in a mask with a voice changer for an entire movie.

  I was 16 and just getting into martial arts movies in a big way when I first saw this movie (in no small part thanks to Fearless) so I have a major nostalgia for it too. It’s, uh, pretty silly though.

  Donnie Yen’s posing: 10/10

  Gratuitous shots of Donnie Yen’s biceps: 10/10

  Donnie Yen’s wig flowing in the wind machine: 10/10

  Shawn Yue’s wig: 0/10

• So this is based on some comic, you can tell because the prologue about the martial arts school is all done like a comic. Also it says so in the opening credits.
  There's some bullshit about plaques and gangs and mystical pagodas and shit. Donnie Yen, Shawn Yue and Nicholas Tse all have terrible hair and also kick the crap out of a bunch of people.
  It's bright and colourful and kinda camp but charming. Fun at times but it's mostly really boring nonsensical weirdness.