Sunday 24 August 2014

Bridge Of Dragons (1999)

So this film has been nestled in the family DVD shelf for years as part of a Hollywood double feature set, but no one has ever watched it... Until now.
First off this film has nothing to with Bridges or Dragons and is a perfect example of a movie title being chosen because the filmmakers thought it sounded cool despite the irrelevance. Now you can argue that the title has some kind of hidden context, but after watching this film you would quickly disregard such a concept and accept that it means nothing. There is no denying that this film is inherently bad, the fact that it's set in it's own confused reality where medieval elements meets modern in some unknown country says it all really. It's a mess but one that is a little fun.The acting is terrible and there's this one old woman who I struggled to take seriously particularly in closeups due to her facial expressions rather than her acting. There's a fair amount of Dolph Lundgren kicking ass(here he is named 'Warchild'), the highlight of course being the great roundhouse kick he delivers that sends the general spinning, when he decides that he's fine with serving an evil general unless they hit a woman. There's also some gunplay and explosions (lacks a bit of blood though) and of course a forced love interest.
Overall the film's pretty harmless and provides a bit of dumb action fun, which is all you can ask for from awful low budget action flick.
**

No comments:

Post a Comment