Alicia I love this movie so much

Nonureva Really Surprised!

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

sergelamarche The evil Tiberius wants it all and plot murders and betrayals. However, even ennemy armies can love and conquer to end in peace. Amen. Very epically thought and produced. Some flaws in the connection between scenes are confusing but the whole is worth some time.

IkhwanArif Every language has it's own rhythm, it's on cadence and it's own sound. The way a language is used affects the way it's community view and express how they perceived their world. Mixing two languages, two cultures, in a film is often a tricky thing, as it needs to successfully communicate to two separate kinds of audience who have differing expectations of what movies should be. Dragon Blade is a silly but admirable attempt at trying to marry English, or rather American, with Chinese cinematic sensibilities. Where it succeeds, is the action. The choreography is solid even if Jackie Chan's age is showing. And it helps that they use a double for John Cusack, as he doesn't have the physicality of an martial action star. The premise of the story had a lot of promise, but it was drowned by the transparently lame attempt at virtue signaling diversity and equality, when it would have made the movie much more interesting if it was approached with cynicism and realism. Politics is about power play and to have a Game of Thrones type power play would have been a more satisfying film. Instead, there were a lot of unnecessary scenes that made the movie feel even longer than it's 2 hour length. The writing was also poor, as it uses expositions and monologue to further the story; a tool often used by Hong Kong and Chinese film industry. The acting is mediocre at best and some of the actors - on both sides - were annoying, but bearable. Amazingly, John Cusack was less annoying than usual. Adrien Brody was alright, Jackie Chan was himself and everyone else was forgettable. Still, it was a fun watch.

blarogtwin For me, this film is one of the little jewels sometimes can be missed. It s almost a gargantuan production, it seems to be nothing's been saved to give that film the grandiosity and the depth the director want to transmit to us.A mash up of actors, good actors, featuring different characters we usually are used to know them.I don t wanna extend myself and I apologize for the grammatical mistakes, but to me, this films has tremendous action scenes, very moving dialogues and if we manage to relax our eye upon some historical errors that can be found, it's really enjoyable.Thank you for your attention, happy new year.

lindsay-72718 No seriously. It's just impossibly contrived and astonishingly bad.I like Jackie Chan, and I like John Cusack. Plus I have a pretty high tolerance for narratively weak martial arts films, but this one sets a new standard.The dialogue is only slightly more coherent than the plot. The costuming and customs portrayed as well as the architecture and technology are a chaotic hodgepodge of historical inaccuracies and arbitrarily invoked stereotypes. The actors barely even have a chance to act well, given the constant melodrama demanded by the script.I get that the film is trying to show a merging of culture's into some idealized vision of peace, but you can't just throw a bunch of random characters together like an ancient epcot center and expect it to work.