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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 manhua Oriental Heroes, which bears the same Chinese title as the film. 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.
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. Jul 28, 2006 Dragon Tiger Gate. (2006) Dragon Tiger Gate is an academy established by two powerful martial artists. The academy aims to train students with martial arts in order to uphold justice and combat the threat of the triads. The academy is also a haven for children who had been orphaned by triads. Adapted from the manhua 'Oriental Heroes.
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2006‘龍虎門’ Directed by Wilson Yip
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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.