Dragon Inn
by Hark Tsui, Raymond Lee, Siu-Tung Ching
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Actor: Brigitte Lin, Cheung-Yan Yuen, Donnie Yen, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung Ka FaiDirector: Hark Tsui, Raymond Lee, Siu-Tung Ching
Cinematographer: Arthur Wong
Cinematographer: Moon-Tong Lau
Producer: Hark Tsui
Writer: Hark Tsui
Producer: Xiao Yi Wu
Writer: Cheung Tan
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Chinese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Tai Seng
Movie Reviews of Dragon Inn
Movie Review: B movie with Chopsticks
Summary: 3 Stars
This is not a Yuen Wo-ping masterpiece but a good cheesy throwback to the Shaw days when the audience in the theater and not the critics at the film festivals mattered most. Order the Chinese, pop the corn, stop trying to understand and enjoy.
Summary of Dragon Inn
The young director Raymond Lee (Rebel from China) deserves some credit for daring to remake one of the great King Hu's most impressive movies. The 1967 original looked like a vintage Technicolor Western, and it had more sweep and panache than any other movie of its kind. Filming in Taiwan, Hu relished the possibilities offered by a shrewdly limited situation. The plots of the two versions are identical: Among the guests at a remote inn in dusty Northern China are representatives of the eunuch-controlled secret police that secretly runs the imperial Ming government, and a group of staunch rebels who have sworn to overthrow them. The story line could be described as an excuse for the sword fights, between as many combinations of antagonists as possible. But when the result was so intoxicating, who could complain? In 1992 Lee updated the basic conception with some winking sexual innuendo and snagged an all-star cast: Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (Song of the Exile), Tony Leung Kar-fei (The Lover), and Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia (Peking Opera Blues). But his staging of action feels mechanical, and the movie never comes to life. You may find yourself nodding out over the endless whirlwind swordplay. --David ChuteAction & Adventure DVD Video
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