Dragon Blade is Cusack-kino. It doesn't take itself too seriously, which is good otherwise it would suck. It's got a great climax. And it's got an '80s vibe of "let's set aside our differences" which they do as Romans and Chinese work together, and combining the great talents of the Latin and the Gook, overcome all odds! Montages throughout, not sure if deliberately cheesy or if that's just how chinese do.
There's a distracting subplot involving an annoying child who is the Roman heir and Adrien Brody is in it but if you can stomach his schnoz he gets brutally killed (so does the kid thankfully).
Cameron Walker
That's one of the chink's traits, overly cheesy and/or melodramatic. Hence why their wave of counter directors are overly dry and raw, almost nothing romanticized. Prime example of this is the korean cinema of the 00's
Cooper Allen
You're a cuckold that doesn't know what he's talking about. Fag.
William Johnson
you retarded son?
Dylan Young
So, what else good action Hong Kong movies are worth watching besides pre-Hollywood John Woo works?
It's so easy to get VPNs in China these days, isn't it silly chink? Too bad you don't use your energy to fight your shitty government.
Aiden Fisher
Did i touch a nerve, Chang?
Jackson Hughes
Ringo Lam, Johnny To and Tsui Hark are probably the most professional and resourceful Hong Kong action directors. At least one or two of their movies are worth watching.
Jackie Chan is also always good for the action, even old Jackie today puts in more stunt work than the entire capeshit industry. Yuen Biao and Sammo are good too but YB made a lot of filler and Sammo is a fat meme. Shanghai Express was awesome though.
Jet Li had great fights, but his most of his movies coast on his stardom; they are otherwise a wide range of Chinese fantasy tropes mashed together by barely sane writers. He's basically the Chinese Van Damme.
Donnie Yen has great fights and his work this decade pioneered how to film MMA as movie fights, but most of his movies are almost cookie cutter Chinese heroic bloodshed. He's basically the Chinese Seagal.
John Rogers
God of cookery was pure kino tbh
Ethan Cook
This exact reason is why I always said the long-hated kane and lynch 2 was an underrated kino masterpiece. Albeit it had pretty shit gameplay, it's atmosphere captured that exact gritty, corrupt, crime driven hong kong so perfectly the chinese government got asshurt enough to sue the devs over defamation
