Dragon Blade

2015 [CHINESE]

Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / History

93
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 47 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 22362 22.4K

Plot summary

Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and becomes enslaved. On the other hand, a Roman general escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The heroic duo meet in the Western Desert and a thrilling story unfolds.

Director

Daniel Lee Photo
Daniel Lee

Top cast

Jackie Chan Photo
Jackie Chan as Huo An
Vander McLeod Photo
Vander McLeod as Tiberius's Roman General
Kevin Lee Photo
Kevin Lee as Roman Solider
Adrien Brody Photo
Adrien Brody as Tiberius
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
943.43 MB
1280*534
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 4
1.94 GB
1920*800
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by misha_kerogazov 6 / 10

Only for Jackie's Hard-Core Fans

The story in the movie is a complete mess. I'm not going to go into details, but if you are considering watching this movie, you must have already accepted that legions of Romans in China is OK. It would be more plausible if they shifted the accent a bit more into fantasy (e.g. different kingdoms, one is more like Roman Empire and another like China, but not actual countries), so there are not so many complaints about historical inaccuracies, but it is what is and according to them, it's based on historical facts. There are also a bit too many secondary undeveloped characters.So, as the title says, you would enjoy it if you just watch it for Jackie. The sword fights are pretty good; other fights, well some are not bad, some are meh. I watched it to the end, skipped only a few times, overall not his worst movie, but far from his best one.Summary: Recommended only for true Jackie Chan's fans.
Reviewed by blueskyy_ng 6 / 10

Quite a bad movie

I've read some of the reviews -- the bad reviews, I generally agree more, the good ones were often too exaggerated. Although I am not a master of the Chinese language, I'm able to understand both English and Chinese movies without subtitles, so I'd like to first address the title. I've no problem with the English title, whatsoever, but to the reviewer who said that it has something to do with lions? He's WRONG. If you want me to translate it, it's something along the lines of Top Gererals, Brave (Mightly) Armies (Troops).Now, to my review. First, the good. The actors were good. The fight choreography was good. The cgi was good. That's pretty much it! So, what was so wrong about the movie? The message of the movie is simple, to promote harmony among people despite the obvious differences in race, ethnicity, culture, creed, etc, etc. I get that! I have nothing against that either. The challenge however, is to incorporate that message seamlessly into the story without it feeling too forced or cliché -- and that was exactly how I felt when I watched some of those scenes.But the bigger failure... is that the story makes absolutely no sense at all. It makes no sense to me how easily they could move and deploy their armies along the Silk Road from Rome to China or vice-versa. It makes no sense that they were all able to understand a common language, that is English. In ancient China, Chinese don't speak a common Chinese language, they speak different dialects. And if you add to the mix, the European languages, and the Middle Eastern languages, there is just no common ground in there for them to be able to understand each other.It makes no sense that Jackie Chan is so trusty from the start (almost like a fool). It makes no sense that Adrien Brody would (for the sake of not spoiling) find himself eventually in that predicament. A lot of things that happened in between didn't make hell of a lot of sense either...
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