I honestly don't want to spend much time blogging about this film. It was a waste of my time and I don't want to waste your time by making you read this long drawn out post. Invincible Dragon was a film I picked up while not knowing absolutely anything about the film. I'm not familiar with Max Zhang or Anderson Silva but they seemed to be the main attraction for this film's allure. Fruit Chan made me think what he was thinking about when he was sitting in the director chair, cause is sure must not have been making a good movie.
A washed up cop tracks down a lady police killer after he kills his lover a year before.
Invincible Dragon confirmed all my fears about Chinese martial arts film's recent direction straight into the trash can. These movies in recent years tend to be all action with not story of substance behind them. I can appreciate the attempts at trying to flush out the two main characters however, the acting was so stuff that you wanted to look away whenever there was speaking lines. The storyline felt uninspired to the degree that I couldn't believe that none else involved in the making of this film believed it either. I did enjoy the fact that Taiwan actually allowed a black character to have a major part in a film that even somewhat broke stereotypes about Black men.... Especially the negative stereotype of black male fathers.(they are seen as men who have asian baby mommas then leave the country in Asia too) Silva is actually portrayed as a good father to his fun, even though the young child actor was a better actor than him. He even spoke Chinese...... What I got the most out of Invincible Dragon was the more positive Black male representation in East Asian Cinema. Cringe lines and all....
Taiwan and China has created some beautiful looking films last year so it doesn't make any sense that I'm still seeing Windows 98 looking special effects. That dragon paired with that train crash scene could have used touch ups with a more updated editing software... preferably one from this decade. The fighting scenes/gun shoot outs were fine as a filler in between all the God awful script.
I honestly think Invincible Dragon depended heavily on having a black costar to draw in viewers. It's been done before but nothing else of substance is left in the storyline after you look pass this obvious gimmick. Watch this film after the price goes down to almost nothing you guys. Like one dollar bin price tag... otherwise, you're wasting your money.
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