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The word on the street was that this was a riff on one of my all-time favorite films, Forbidden Kingdom 2008, so I could not resist checking it out.
(Word to the wise, if you have not already seen FK, and you like MMA and/or Wushu and/or Fantasy and/or Adventure, check it out. FK has humble beginnings, features two of the greatest cinematic martial artists of all time - Jackie Chan and Jet Li -- a killer script, great scenery, and solid performances. Some reviewers, including this one, think it is one of the best of its kind ever done.)
Let's start with what Warriors Gate was intended to be, and work from that.
The production team clearly thought they would 'improve' on FK by adding more 'teen humor.' Presumably they also felt this would more than compensate for the film's considerably lighter 'feel' and the awkward void formed by not having ANY famous film martial artists at all.
Which is not to say it is not worth a watch. A lot of effort was put into the humor aspect (as explained above) and this does keep things moving along.
(For example -- if you are film buff, you will remember fondly the famous tag line from Airplane 1980 - 'Don't call me Shirley' which became a sort of iconic inside joke for years afterwards. This script contains a number of attempts to mimic that sort of dialog, my favorite being -- 'KILL HIM! -- slashing noise -- 'NO, NOT HIM. HIM.')
Bottom Line: One hour and 45 minutes of reasonable entertainment. However, it suffers from the 'curse' common to all knock-offs. Unless you see the original, you will never know what you are missing.1:352:062:184:033:212:311:27:2615:522:080:291:42:132:244:592:24
Directed by
Matthias Hoene |
Writing Credits
Luc Besson | .. | (written by) & |
Robert Mark Kamen | .. | (written by) |
Cast (in credits order)
Mark Chao | .. | Zhoo | |
Ni Ni | .. | Su Lin | |
Dave Bautista | .. | Arun | |
Sienna Guillory | .. | Annie | |
Uriah Shelton | .. | Jack | |
Francis Ng | .. | Wizard | |
Ming Xi | .. | Nymph #1 | |
Kara Wai | .. | Mountain Spirit | |
Zha Ka | .. | Brutus | |
Ron Smoorenburg | .. | Black Knight | |
Tianyi You | .. | Nymph #2 (as You Tianyi) | |
Lijie Liu | .. | Nymph #3 | |
Dakota Daulby | .. | Travis Leigh | |
Luke Mac Davis | .. | Hector | |
Yilin Guan | .. | Messenger #1 | |
Xiaochuan Li | .. | Messenger #2 | |
Tao Chen | .. | Treasurer | |
David Liu | .. | Tailor | |
Fei Huang | .. | Priest / Shaman | |
Joel Adrian | .. | Viking Barbarians | |
Eva Day | .. | Sales Girl | |
Byron Gibson | .. | Viking Barbarians | |
David Torok | .. | Viking Barbarians | |
Svitlana Zavialova | .. | Viking Barbarians | |
Jia Dong Liu | .. | Emperor | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Henry Mah | .. | Mr. Cheng | |
Breanna Watkins | .. | Local Pedestrian |
Produced by
Luc Besson | .. | producer |
J.C. Cheng | .. | executive producer |
Natacha Devillers | .. | line producer |
Mark Gao | .. | producer |
Olivier Glaas | .. | line producer |
Claude Léger | .. | executive producer |
Gregory Ouanhon | .. | executive producer |
Kathian Pascal | .. | assistant producer |
Jonathan Vanger | .. | executive producer |
Ariel Zeitoun | .. | executive producer |
Music by
Klaus Badelt |
Cinematography by
Maxime Alexandre |
Film Editing by
Audrey Simonaud |
Production Design by
Hugues Tissandier |
Art Direction by
Lilith Bekmezian |
Gilles Boillot |
Christian Vallat |
Costume Design by
Edith Vesperini |
Makeup Department
Jill Bailey | .. | key makeup artist |
Russell Brady | .. | key hair stylist |
Jennifer Kaminski | .. | assistant makeup artist |
Frédérique Ney | .. | makeup artist |
Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen | .. | make-up and hair designer |
Production Management
Tia Buhl | .. | production manager |
Bin Shen | .. | unit production manager |
Fei Yu | .. | assistant unit manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jason Furukawa | .. | first assistant director |
Su Guo | .. | third assistant director |
Pei Pei Lin | .. | second assistant director |
Clea Mihalik | .. | trainee assistant director |
Fei Wong | .. | first assistant director |
Jason Yeung | .. | third assistant director |
Art Department
Charlie Clerc | .. | graphic designer |
Kate Ferguson | .. | set dresser |
Meng Jia | .. | art department coordinator |
Anamarija Josipovic | .. | set designer |
Chad Kerychuk | .. | graphic designer |
Andrej Kostic | .. | storyboard artist |
Stephanie Seidle | .. | assistant art director |
Daniel Hyun Lim | .. | poster artist (uncredited) |
Sound Department
Matthieu Autin | .. | assistant sound editor |
Jérémy Babinet | .. | foley editor |
Pascal Chauvin | .. | foley artist |
Matthieu Dallaporta | .. | adr mixer / dialogue editor / foley mixer / re-recording mixer |
Michael Hough | .. | boom operator |
Didier Lozahic | .. | re-recording mixer |
Stephane Rabeau | .. | sound editor |
Clémence Stoloff | .. | adr editor |
Franck Tassel | .. | foley artist |
Hugo Thouin | .. | second assistant sound editor |
Graham Timmer | .. | sound recordist |
Mike Xu | .. | ADR Mixer (as Xu Zilu) |
Ken Yasumoto | .. | supervising sound editor |
Special Effects by
Guillaume Colas | .. | main titles |
Visual Effects by
Steve Beaucamp | .. | visual effects artist: Mokko Studio |
Simon Beaulieu-Cyr | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Reda Benkhadda | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Danny Bergeron | .. | visual effects executive producer: Mokko Studio |
David Bessette | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Wasselena Bilak | .. | coordinator: Mokko Studio |
Bruno Blain | .. | character rigger: Mokko Studio |
Francois Bordez | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Gaëlle Bossis | .. | digital compositor |
Vincent Boucher-Cormier | .. | concept artist / matte painter / texture artist |
Crystal Bretz | .. | cg artist |
Jean-Francois Burdin | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Jillian Cabernel | .. | visual effects coordinator |
Felipe Carpinetti | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Carole Chanal | .. | digital matte painter/environment artist |
Dan Charbit | .. | visual effects supervisor: Mokko Studio |
Ian Charlton | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Kevin Cheas | .. | compositor |
Thomas Chesny | .. | machmove artist |
Guillaume Colas | .. | visual effects artist |
Yoann Copinet | .. | vfx editor |
Frédéric-Vincent Couture | .. | it support: Mokko Studio |
François Dagenais | .. | visual effects artist: Mokko Studio |
Benoit De Longlee | .. | visual effects supervisor |
Brune Marie de Miscault | .. | 3d generalist / 3d generalist: Mokko Studio |
Rosa Debals-Gonthier | .. | matchmove artist: MoveMatcherS |
Adrien Delecroix | .. | matchmove artist: MoveMatcherS |
Elisa-Ann Dion | .. | roto-paint artist: Mokko Studio |
Dan Dixon | .. | visual effects supervisor |
Maxime Dontigny | .. | roto-paint artist: Mokko Studio |
Brandon Doty | .. | 3d generalist |
Stanislav Enilenis | .. | visual effects |
Cederic Estevao | .. | roto-paint artist: Mokko Studio |
Guillaume Floret | .. | cg supervisor: MoveMatcherS |
Antoine Flotin | .. | technical director: Mokko Studio |
Jonathan Gagnon | .. | visual effects artist: Mokko Studio |
Gilles Garceau | .. | supervising animator: Mokko Studio |
Francisco Garcia | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Yazmin Garcia | .. | digital compositor |
Rob Geddes | .. | digital compositor |
Alexa Gendron | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Ange-Marie Gendron | .. | coordinator: Mokko Studio |
Mathieu Genest | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Andrei Gheorghiu | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Benjamin Guay | .. | 3d generalist: Mokko Studio |
Dong Qing Guo | .. | roto-paint artist: Mokko Studio |
Jérémie Guy-Béland | .. | 3d generalist: Mokko Studio |
Michael Hedges | .. | digital compositor |
Andréa Hervet | .. | matchmove artist: MoveMatcherS |
Kayla Huitema | .. | compositor (as Kayla Lloyd) |
Ryan Jensen | .. | visual effects supervisor |
Ehsan Kiani | .. | character rigger: Mokko Studio |
Dong-Hyun Kim | .. | matchmove supervisor: animator: Lux Visual Effects Inc. (as Dong Hyun Kim) |
Anne-Marie Kowalski | .. | production support: Mokko Studio |
Olivier Lavenant | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Thomas Lhomme-Sorel | .. | lighting artist: Mikros Images |
Yeye LI | .. | visual effects |
David Lin | .. | matchmove artist |
Jason Lindsay | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Kevin Little | .. | visual effects producer: Lux Visual Effects Inc. |
Sergeï Lourié | .. | lead compositor |
Benoit Luce | .. | visual effects supervisor: Lux Populi VFX |
Tom Mangat | .. | digital compositor |
David Marcotte | .. | matte painter: Mokko Studio |
Sonia Marques | .. | visual effects producer: visual effects |
Carolyne Martin | .. | roto-paint artist: Mokko Studio |
Arthur Maughan | .. | visual effects |
Chris McCrowe | .. | digital compositor: Artifex |
Tim Mendler | .. | matchmove lead: MoveMatcherS |
Louis Morisset | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Milton Muller | .. | digital compositor: Artifex Studios |
Ghislain Ouellet | .. | game sequence director: Mokko Studio |
Stéphane Paradis | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Zakary Parent | .. | digital compositor |
Heather Paul | .. | visual effects producer: Lux Visual Effects Inc. |
Aragon Pawson | .. | compositor |
Carson Pfahl | .. | production assistant |
Sebastien Pincin | .. | digital compositor: Mokko Studio |
Audrey Planchard | .. | visual effects coordinator |
Elodie Pollet | .. | visual effects project manager |
Rosemonde Presset | .. | it support: Mokko Studio |
Sebastien Racine | .. | vfx producer: Mokko Studio |
Christian Rajaud | .. | visual effects supervisor |
Christopher Reid | .. | systems administrator: Mokko Studio |
Maude Rivard | .. | cg generalist |
Fred Roz | .. | endroll |
Benjamin Ruiz | .. | 3d generalist: Mokko Studio |
Rafael Santos Jr. | .. | digital production manager |
Nicolas Sauval | .. | fx td: mac guff ligne |
Marco Savignac | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Quentin Schall | .. | animator: Mokko Studio |
Alican Sesli | .. | lead compositor |
Adam Stern | .. | visual effects executive producer: artifex studios |
Julie Tardieu | .. | character modeling: Mokko Studio |
Alexis Turbé | .. | digital compositor: Mikros Image |
Fausto Turcotte | .. | 3d generalist: Mokko Studio |
Sebastien Turenne | .. | project manager: Mokko Studio |
Brent Veal | .. | digital compositor |
Joseph Villa | .. | digital compositor: Artifex Studios |
Eduardo Villarreal | .. | digital compositor |
Mark Visser | .. | technical director: Mokko Studio |
Karen Watson | .. | compositor |
Mohamed Zekri | .. | digital artist |
Stunts
Joel Adrian | .. | stunts |
Ed Anders | .. | stunt driver |
Krista Bell | .. | stunts |
Rob de Groot | .. | stunt double: Dave Bautista |
Chi Wah Ling | .. | action director (as Tony Ling) |
Steven McMichael | .. | Fight Choreographer 'Canada' |
Kimani Ray Smith | .. | stunt driver |
David Torok | .. | stunts |
Breanna Watkins | .. | stunt performer |
Bai Zhou | .. | action director assistant/stunt coordinator |
Camera and Electrical Department
Wan Yat Foo Andre | .. | a camera: focus puller: china unit |
Manquan Chen | .. | grip |
Laurent Danis | .. | camera |
Lorenzo Donati | .. | Steadicam operator |
Robert Finnigan | .. | 2nd assistant Camera Vancouver Unit |
Niall Fraser | .. | assistant chief lighting technician |
Simon Hunt | .. | gaffer |
Arnaud Hémery | .. | digital imaging technician |
Kathian Pascal | .. | grip |
Noor Razzak | .. | dolly grip |
Devin Riendeau | .. | grip |
Ben Rothstein | .. | still photographer |
Armand Santos | .. | rigging gaffer: Vancouver |
John Woods | .. | best boy rigging electric: vancouver unit |
Ronnie Wu | .. | translator / coordinator for camera, lighting and grip |
Zhong Yang | .. | gaffer |
Animation Department
Thierry Sapyn | .. | background artist |
Casting Department
Christin Park | .. | extras casting |
Edward D. Rea | .. | casting associate |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Carmen Ferguson | .. | costumer |
Maxime Roux Robert | .. | costumer |
Editorial Department
Enter The Warriors Gate 2016 Cast
Sophie Chatin | .. | first assistant editor |
Amélie Dibon | .. | post-production supervisor |
Akrivi Fili | .. | additional editor |
Justine Paynat-Sautivet | .. | post-production assistant |
Melodie Robert | .. | post-production assistant |
Cécile Vève | .. | second assistant editor |
Location Management
Jonathan Cairns | .. | assistant location manager: second unit |
Nicola Goelle | .. | location production assistant |
Alex Tseng | .. | locations productions assistant |
Music Department
Jean-Pierre Arquié | .. | composer agent |
Christopher Carmichael | .. | composer: additional music |
Leland Cox | .. | composer: additional music |
Matt Jones | .. | score assistant engineer |
Alexandre Mahout | .. | head of music |
Samuel Potin | .. | music editor |
Other crew
Dustin Lee Abram | .. | set production assistant |
Agnès Berger Sébenne | .. | head of post-production (as Agnès Sébenne) |
Matthieu Bled | .. | studio manager |
Ivy Chen | .. | assistant script supervisor |
Mary Cui | .. | accountant |
Peter Cummings | .. | clearances / product placement |
Romuald Drault | .. | head accountant supervisor |
Kelly Fordham | .. | production |
James L. Head | .. | production assistant |
Jenna Jankowiak | .. | Assistant Production Coordinator |
Ellen MacDonald | .. | production coordinator |
Maël Marivint | .. | production accountant |
Maya Nadine | .. | stand-in: Ni Ni |
Jen Oberem | .. | script supervisor |
Jennifer Oleksiuk | .. | choreographer |
Myriam Rak | .. | legal clearance supervisor |
Joe Sisto | .. | production counsel |
Barbara Stefaniak | .. | legal department |
Alex Voong | .. | production coordinator |
Roger Williams | .. | EPK/BTS Service Provider: Inspired Image Picture Company |
Maxine Zhang | .. | production coordinator |
Rebecca Girard | .. | production assistant (uncredited) / uncredited |
Thanks
Humphrey Elles-Hill | .. | thanks |
(Word to the wise, if you have not already seen FK, and you like MMA and/or Wushu and/or Fantasy and/or Adventure, check it out. FK has humble beginnings, features two of the greatest cinematic martial artists of all time - Jackie Chan and Jet Li -- a killer script, great scenery, and solid performances. Some reviewers, including this one, think it is one of the best of its kind ever done.)
Let's start with what Warriors Gate was intended to be, and work from that.
The production team clearly thought they would 'improve' on FK by adding more 'teen humor.' Presumably they also felt this would more than compensate for the film's considerably lighter 'feel' and the awkward void formed by not having ANY famous film martial artists at all.
Also, Forbidden Kingdom had a certain edge of malice and unpredictability in the script which, oddly, only increased its impact and its fan base. This film lacks those features as well and, on its best day in its best suit, comes across more as 'Forbidden Kingdom Lite,' or perhaps even a Disney knockoff of the original.
Which is not to say it is not worth a watch. A lot of effort was put into the humor aspect (as explained above) and this does keep things moving along.
(For example -- if you are film buff, you will remember fondly the famous tag line from Airplane 1980 - 'Don't call me Shirley' which became a sort of iconic inside joke for years afterwards. This script contains a number of attempts to mimic that sort of dialog, my favorite being -- 'KILL HIM! -- slashing noise -- 'NO, NOT HIM. HIM.')
Bottom Line: One hour and 45 minutes of reasonable entertainment. However, it suffers from the 'curse' common to all knock-offs. Unless you see the original, you will never know what you are missing.
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The Warriors Gate | |
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勇士之門 | |
Directed by | Matthias Hoene |
Produced by | Mark Gao Luc Besson |
Screenplay by | Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen |
Starring | Mark Chao Ni Ni Uriah Shelton Dave Bautista |
Music by | Klaus Badelt |
Cinematography | Maxime Alexandre |
Edited by | Audrey Simonaud |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | EuropaCorp |
Release date | |
Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | China France |
Budget | US$48 million[1] |
Box office | US$3.2 million |
The Warriors Gate (Chinese: 勇士之門, also released as Enter the Warrior's Gate) is a 2016 Chinese-French action-adventure-fantasy film directed by Matthias Hoene[2] and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It was released in China on November 18, 2016, in 2D, 3D and China Film Giant Screen 3D,[3][4][5] and on VOD in the United States on May 5.
Plot[edit]
Jack Bronson (Uriah Shelton) is a teenager who spends his free time playing warrior video games and working at a Chinese curios and antiques shop. His mother is trying to sell the house they live in before it goes into foreclosure. When Jack goes to a biking park, Travis (Dakota Daulby), a neighbourhood bully and his friends chase after him and he hides inside his bosses shop and helps out. A family heirloom, The Warriors Gate, from Mr Cheng’s cousin in Beijing arrives at the shop and he gives it to Jack as a gift.
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Jack goes to sleep with the thing in his room and wakes up with a sword at his neck. A warrior, Zhao (Mark Chao) tells him that the ‘Black Knight’ has to look after the most precious thing in the kingdom; the Princess. Jack gets to know Princess Su Lin and she stays with him overnight. The next morning, barbarians from the game realm come to kill the Princess but she fights them off, destroying the house in the process. How to check sent mail on outlook. The barbarians take the Princess back into the other realm through the Warriors Gate but when Jack goes in after her he arrives somewhere else. The Warrior who sent the Princess to stay with Jack is there and there is an army of barbarians trying to kill them. The Wizard stops time and the army is frozen. The Wizard tells Jack that Zhao was one of six children raised from both to protect the Emperor and that the only person who could defeat them was Arun the Cruel, King of the barbarians. Arun poisoned the warriors and killed the Emperor and the only people left alive were Su Lin and Zhao. The wizard searched through his seeing stone to find the greatest Warrior to protect the Princess and found The Black Knight; Jack's in game avatar; a ferocious and clever Warrior. Jack and Zhao find out that Arun the Cruel will marry the Princess, become Emperor and then have her killed; so their mission is to save her.
While on their way through the 'Unknown Kingdom' Jack tries the get Zhao to dance and have fun. In the forest, Jack gets held captive by beautiful Witch triplets that intend to eat him but Zhao saves him. At night Zhao starts to teach Jack how to fight. They get to a lake and Zhao says the trek around it will take days because he cannot swim. Jack agrees to teach him if Zhao continues teaching him how to fight like a Warrior.
When they arrive at Arun's kingdom they get captured; their way of getting into the kingdom and past all the guards and knights. They get free by working together to kill the guard when he gives them their food. Jack saves Su Lin but just as they're about to kiss Zhao barges in and interrupts them. On their way out they get recaptured and put back in their cell, Jack tells Zhao that he’s too young to die, having never even kissed a girl. Zhao reveals that neither has he. A butterfly appears and Zhao has a conversation with it.Jack asks if the butterfly understood him and Zhao replies that he hopes so.
During the wedding when Arun the Cruel lifts up her veil and goes to kiss Su Lin he sees that her face is of that of an insectoid monster with a long tongue and huge eyes. The Wizard uses his magic to distract everyone and frees Jack and Zhao just before hanging. The Wizard pours magic powder on Jacks shoes and tells him to jump. Jack saves the princess and all the barbarians try to kill them. The wizard gives Jack bags of magic powder to throw at them. One of the bags makes one of the barbarians a huge monster, however; too large for Jack and a formidable foe for Zhao. Eventually, Jack and Su Lin catapult themselves faraway and Zhao and the Wizard get away as well.
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Jack wakes up in a forest alone and after a search finds Sun Lin tied up. Arun's guards attack Jack but he fights them off. Arun and Jack fight until Jack kills Arun and saves the Princess.
Su Lin is crowned Empress and sometime afterwards they kiss and she tells Jack that she never thought he was worthless; not even when they first met. The Empress's guards see her lipstick on Jacks face and try to kill him for touching her; but he gets home through the Warriors Gate; smashing it to pieces and rendering it useless to get back.
When he goes to school the next day Jack finally defeats his bully, Travis. At home, Jack tries to put the Warriors Gate back together but fails so he creates a video game called ‘The Warriors Gate’ and sells it for $25,000 so that he and his mom get to keep their house. Days later Jack is at the mall for some ice-cream and bumps into Su Lin. She had the Wizard make her another box/gate and made a new law that everyone gets holidays; even the Empress. Back in Empress's Kingdom, we see Zhao teaching all the knights to dance. Su Lin also dances a modern dance while standing on the balcony of her Forbidden City- like palace.
Cast[edit]
- Uriah Shelton[2] as Jack Bronson / The Black Knight
- Mark Chao[2] as Warrior Zhao.
- Ni Ni[2] as Princess Su Lin.
- Dave Bautista[2] as Arun the Cruel (the Mean, the Horrible, the Terrible, the Strong, the Miserable)
- Francis Ng[6] as Wizard.
- Sienna Guillory[2] as Annie Bronson
- Ron Smoorenburg[2] as The Black Knight.
- David Torok as Viking Warrior
- Dakota Daulby[7] as Travis Leigh.
Production[edit]
The film had a budget of CN¥300 million.[8] Filming started on May 4, 2015. It was filmed on location at Hengdian World Studios in Jinhua, China and in British Columbia, Canada.[2]
Reception[edit]
The Hollywood Reporter compared the film to The Last Starfighter. Discussing the director, the review noted that 'Hoene keeps things competent rather than creative, and shows little of the flair he did in Cockneys vs Zombies' and that the story wades into 'familiar territory' that may attract a young adult audience 'for YA audiences that are heavily into the 1980s'.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ abcdefghPatrick Frater (May 13, 2015). 'Cannes: Dave Bautista Stars in Martial Arts Epic 'Warrior's Gate' (EXCLUSIVE)'. variety.com. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
- ^'勇士之门 The Warriors Gate (2016)'. movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^'勇士之门 的海报'. movie.douban.com (in Chinese). douban.com. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^'勇士之门(2016)'. cbooo.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^Patrick Frater (June 10, 2015). 'Francis Ng Joins Dave Bautista in Cast of 'Warrior's Gate''. variety.com. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
- ^Tiffany Vogt (July 5, 2016). 'EXCLUSIVE: WAYWARD PINES scoop, shining the spotlight on Dakota Daulby'. seat42f.com. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
- ^Kevin Ma (April 20, 2015). 'Luc Besson readies Warrior's China shoot'. Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
- ^Kerr, Elizabeth (17 January 2017). ''The Warrior's Gate': Film Review'. Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
External links[edit]
- The Warriors Gate on IMDb
- The Warriors Gate at Rotten Tomatoes
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Warriors_Gate&oldid=900367700'
The Warriors Gate | |
---|---|
勇士之門 | |
Directed by | Matthias Hoene |
Produced by | Mark Gao Luc Besson |
Screenplay by | Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen |
Starring | Mark Chao Ni Ni Uriah Shelton Dave Bautista |
Music by | Klaus Badelt |
Cinematography | Maxime Alexandre |
Edited by | Audrey Simonaud |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | EuropaCorp |
Release date | |
Running time | 108 minutes |
Country | China France |
Budget | US$48 million[1] |
Box office | US$3.2 million |
The Warriors Gate (Chinese: 勇士之門, also released as Enter the Warrior's Gate) is a 2016 Chinese-French action-adventure-fantasy film directed by Matthias Hoene[2] and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It was released in China on November 18, 2016, in 2D, 3D and China Film Giant Screen 3D,[3][4][5] and on VOD in the United States on May 5.
Plot[edit]
Jack Bronson (Uriah Shelton) is a teenager who spends his free time playing warrior video games and working at a Chinese curios and antiques shop. His mother is trying to sell the house they live in before it goes into foreclosure. When Jack goes to a biking park, Travis (Dakota Daulby), a neighbourhood bully and his friends chase after him and he hides inside his bosses shop and helps out. A family heirloom, The Warriors Gate, from Mr Cheng’s cousin in Beijing arrives at the shop and he gives it to Jack as a gift.
Jack goes to sleep with the thing in his room and wakes up with a sword at his neck. A warrior, Zhao (Mark Chao) tells him that the ‘Black Knight’ has to look after the most precious thing in the kingdom; the Princess. Jack gets to know Princess Su Lin and she stays with him overnight. The next morning, barbarians from the game realm come to kill the Princess but she fights them off, destroying the house in the process. The barbarians take the Princess back into the other realm through the Warriors Gate but when Jack goes in after her he arrives somewhere else. The Warrior who sent the Princess to stay with Jack is there and there is an army of barbarians trying to kill them. The Wizard stops time and the army is frozen. The Wizard tells Jack that Zhao was one of six children raised from both to protect the Emperor and that the only person who could defeat them was Arun the Cruel, King of the barbarians. Arun poisoned the warriors and killed the Emperor and the only people left alive were Su Lin and Zhao. The wizard searched through his seeing stone to find the greatest Warrior to protect the Princess and found The Black Knight; Jack's in game avatar; a ferocious and clever Warrior. Jack and Zhao find out that Arun the Cruel will marry the Princess, become Emperor and then have her killed; so their mission is to save her.
While on their way through the 'Unknown Kingdom' Jack tries the get Zhao to dance and have fun. In the forest, Jack gets held captive by beautiful Witch triplets that intend to eat him but Zhao saves him. At night Zhao starts to teach Jack how to fight. They get to a lake and Zhao says the trek around it will take days because he cannot swim. Jack agrees to teach him if Zhao continues teaching him how to fight like a Warrior.
When they arrive at Arun's kingdom they get captured; their way of getting into the kingdom and past all the guards and knights. They get free by working together to kill the guard when he gives them their food. Jack saves Su Lin but just as they're about to kiss Zhao barges in and interrupts them. On their way out they get recaptured and put back in their cell, Jack tells Zhao that he’s too young to die, having never even kissed a girl. Zhao reveals that neither has he. A butterfly appears and Zhao has a conversation with it.Jack asks if the butterfly understood him and Zhao replies that he hopes so.
During the wedding when Arun the Cruel lifts up her veil and goes to kiss Su Lin he sees that her face is of that of an insectoid monster with a long tongue and huge eyes. The Wizard uses his magic to distract everyone and frees Jack and Zhao just before hanging. The Wizard pours magic powder on Jacks shoes and tells him to jump. Jack saves the princess and all the barbarians try to kill them. The wizard gives Jack bags of magic powder to throw at them. One of the bags makes one of the barbarians a huge monster, however; too large for Jack and a formidable foe for Zhao. Eventually, Jack and Su Lin catapult themselves faraway and Zhao and the Wizard get away as well.
Jack wakes up in a forest alone and after a search finds Sun Lin tied up. Arun's guards attack Jack but he fights them off. Arun and Jack fight until Jack kills Arun and saves the Princess.
Su Lin is crowned Empress and sometime afterwards they kiss and she tells Jack that she never thought he was worthless; not even when they first met. The Empress's guards see her lipstick on Jacks face and try to kill him for touching her; but he gets home through the Warriors Gate; smashing it to pieces and rendering it useless to get back.
When he goes to school the next day Jack finally defeats his bully, Travis. At home, Jack tries to put the Warriors Gate back together but fails so he creates a video game called ‘The Warriors Gate’ and sells it for $25,000 so that he and his mom get to keep their house. Days later Jack is at the mall for some ice-cream and bumps into Su Lin. She had the Wizard make her another box/gate and made a new law that everyone gets holidays; even the Empress. Back in Empress's Kingdom, we see Zhao teaching all the knights to dance. Su Lin also dances a modern dance while standing on the balcony of her Forbidden City- like palace.
Cast[edit]
- Uriah Shelton[2] as Jack Bronson / The Black Knight
- Mark Chao[2] as Warrior Zhao.
- Ni Ni[2] as Princess Su Lin.
- Dave Bautista[2] as Arun the Cruel (the Mean, the Horrible, the Terrible, the Strong, the Miserable)
- Francis Ng[6] as Wizard.
- Sienna Guillory[2] as Annie Bronson
- Ron Smoorenburg[2] as The Black Knight.
- David Torok as Viking Warrior
- Dakota Daulby[7] as Travis Leigh.
Production[edit]
The film had a budget of CN¥300 million.[8] Filming started on May 4, 2015. It was filmed on location at Hengdian World Studios in Jinhua, China and in British Columbia, Canada.[2]
Reception[edit]
The Hollywood Reporter compared the film to The Last Starfighter. Discussing the director, the review noted that 'Hoene keeps things competent rather than creative, and shows little of the flair he did in Cockneys vs Zombies' and that the story wades into 'familiar territory' that may attract a young adult audience 'for YA audiences that are heavily into the 1980s'.[9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ abcdefghPatrick Frater (May 13, 2015). 'Cannes: Dave Bautista Stars in Martial Arts Epic 'Warrior's Gate' (EXCLUSIVE)'. variety.com. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
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- ^Patrick Frater (June 10, 2015). 'Francis Ng Joins Dave Bautista in Cast of 'Warrior's Gate''. variety.com. Retrieved June 11, 2015.
- ^Tiffany Vogt (July 5, 2016). 'EXCLUSIVE: WAYWARD PINES scoop, shining the spotlight on Dakota Daulby'. seat42f.com. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
- ^Kevin Ma (April 20, 2015). 'Luc Besson readies Warrior's China shoot'. Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
- ^Kerr, Elizabeth (17 January 2017). ''The Warrior's Gate': Film Review'. Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
External links[edit]
- The Warriors Gate on IMDb
- The Warriors Gate at Rotten Tomatoes
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