Bridge of Dragons (1999)

Just perfect...

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Excellent but underrated film

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A soldier from the waste land helps a princess overthrow the cruel general who has crowned himself king. Along the way, after many attempts, the soldier and ruler meet in a battle to the death. Dolph Lundgren is in good form as the killing machine who turns against his employer, indeed the story recalls the earlier(and inferior) Red Scorpion but Bridge Of Dragons manages to work as guilty pleasure fun due to the sharp production values and some admittedly suspenseful action sequences. Character development (as usual) is nil but what a small price to pay for a big body count.* *1/2 out of 4-(Pretty good)

I caught this movie somewhere around 3 in the morning on late-night television. Bleary-eyed and unable to go back to sleep, I decided to give it a chance. And I fell in love.Here's my summary: The plot is basically nonexistent. The action is good. The acting is... well, it's fairly standard B movie acting. Bruce Campbell would be proud.Go in expecting a bad action movie, and you'll enjoy this to no end. Go in expecting a Hollywood blockbuster, and you may as well gouge out your eyes, 'cause you're going to get just as much pleasure from that.God, I love this movie.

I've seen several of Lungren's films, and he has the ability to make an entertaining action star. He did some great work in things like "Showdown in Little Tokyo." This, however, is between a poor attempt at making an action film and crap-on-a-stick.The plot is clichéd and not too well done. Lungren is Warchild (WHAT a name!!), a soldier who works for a general who turns out to be evil (played by Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa, the only decent actor in the whole film). When the living princess (the very attractive but severely untalented Valerie Chow), who is engaged to the general, learns that he killed her parents, she flees, and Warchild is sent to find her. When he finally gets it through his head that the general, who raised him, is evil, he joins the resistance and fights against the general.Lungren pulls off some decent action, making good use of his feet in his fights (he really could do that more, but oh well); his acting is what you'd expect if you've ever seen him before. The gunfights are half decent, half corny. Valerie Chow, I'm sorry to say, could not act her way into a children's theatre, which is a terrible testament to her, considering how lovely of a woman she is.You might watch this if you are either extremely bored, desperate, drunk, or have kids who are old enough to start seeing action films. (there is nothing in this film you could not show a decent-aged kid). Don't approach this thing if you place high value on the use of your brain matter.

This film is nothing short of disastrous. For a start you will be unclear in which era it is set such are the inconsistencies of military hardware, some 20th century, some possibly from the future but you can't tell! In terms of story its the usual goodguy versus badguy fare, although Dolph Lundgren really excels in his portrayal of a human tree. His emotions are so laboured and unconvincing that you have to question whether he is even capable of moving his face! The action scenes are utterly unbelievable and can only be described as silly. The film is staggeringly unrealistic and nobody displays any traces of acting ability. Yet for comic value its worth a look, if only to pity how low Dolph has sunk since Rocky IV. Best watched with enormous amounts of booze and a roomful of mates to keep the laughter flowin!