2011 · martial-arts · mystery · drama
Dragon
Directed by Peter Chan Ho-Sun1h 55m2011
A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master.
Our read: Dragon (2011) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded martial-arts · mystery · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme martial-arts / mystery, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Watching Dragon tonight? Spin for your lens.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Dragon feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want cerebral wuxia noir where Donnie Yen's past is decoded blow by blow.”
Skip it tonight — You need constant fights; this spends long stretches on detective forensics.
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