THE INVINCIBLE DRAGON is a real mess of a film, an attempt at a serial killer thriller focusing on the martial arts action courtesy of IP MAN star Max Zhang, but the end result is laughable more than anything. Following on from Mike Tyson and Dave Bautista's roles as heavies in Hong Kong cinema, this one casts real-life fighter Anderson Silva as the antagonist, but it's fair to say his acting ability is limited. The story is all over the place, jumping back and forth between Hong Kong and Macau, with lots of senseless plot decisions and so little of it feeling linear that they had to add in a narrator in post-production to try and make sense of it all. Zhang has little of the screen presence we've seen from him previously, although a couple of the fight scenes aren't bad, although still not fantastic. The one thing you'll remember is the ridiculous climax, which offers awful FX and then a jaw-droppingly awful supernatural twist.
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The undercover agent with dragon tattoo Kowloon continually helped the police to solve mysterious cases, which made him known as a rising star. However, his impulsive personality dragged him into endless troubles.
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A massive swing and a miss in Hong Kong cinema...
I hadn't heard about this movie from writer and director Fruit Chan prior to getting to sit down and watch it. And it being a Hong Kong action movie was essentially all that was needed to catch my interesting.
It would be an overstatement to say that "The Invincible Dragon" (aka "Jiu long bu bai") is an outstanding moment in Hong Kong cinema. This movie was a massive swing and a miss.
For me it was the storyline that was the source of where it all went wrong, because there was no red line throughout the course of the movie. It all just felt random and like something director Fruit Chan made up as they went along, without taking into consideration what happened just 15 minutes ago. The movie was a befuddled mess of chaotic confusion and very little sense permeated the movie.
And it didn't help much that the character gallery in the movie was about as interesting as wet cardboard. So it was an uphill battle that the actors and actresses were fighting, and they weren't doing much to win the battle.
I managed to endure the movie to the end, but believe you me that this was a prolonged experience, and the movie felt to be dragging on forever and ever. As the movie hit 55 minutes, I was good and ready to call it quits, because the movie just trotted on in a stupor. But I endured, and I hung in there to the very end.
However, I can honestly say that this movie is not one that I will be sitting down to watch again. My rating of "The Invincible Dragon" is a mere three out of ten stars.
Jin Zhang and serial killer with beautiful yoga trainer!
It is average action movie. Though story is interesting script is some messy makes us to loose interest. There is no shocking suspense for serial killing. This part is so weak. Other hand leading action star Jin Zhang does not impress us as his previous movies like 'Kill Zone', ' Grandmaster' etc. He is impressive martial arts actor especially for his flying actions. Lady yoga trainer is another attraction for this spiritless story plot. Her fight with Jin in train is main interesting part in the movie as me. Over all movie is once time watchable not with expectation of perfect action movie.