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Enter the Fat Dragon (2020)
Directed by Kenji Tanigaki
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After being dumped by his fiancé, heartbroken Hong Kong police officer Fallon Zhu gains 200+ pounds. His superiors demote him to the job of escorting convicts to Japan. When a convict in his custody mysteriously dies, he must team up with citizen Thor to solve the mystery.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Donnie Yen | Teresa Mo | Niki Chow | Wong Jing | Louis Cheung | Jessica Jann | Naoto Takenaka | Tetsu Watanabe | Hiro Hayama | Lin Qiu-Nan | Wong Cho-lam | Anthony Chan | Philip Ng | Jerry Lamb | Lawrence Chou | Bob Lam | Tyson Chak | Yan Hua | Yu Kang | Min Hun Fung | Joey Iwanaga | Wang Xinyao | Jim Chim | Zheng Xutao | Kouji Kawauchi | Xiongfang Tan
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/12/2021 | TV | DVD | Library | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
This is another movie I requested from the library way back in early 2020 that finally arrived now months and months later. Firstly I’d like to note that Donnie Yen gives me hope that maybe I could attain a somewhat better shape at my age given that he’s 5 years older than me almost to the day. Also like how he’s purposely playing a man much younger than his true age and they use some digital smoothing to make him appear so. He looks like he’s 30 years old!
The movie is what you’d expect given the premise altho the description isn’t entirely correct; his character doesn’t gain 200+ pounds. He just becomes a tad overweight doing more of young Sammo Hung impression (Sammo also did a “Enter the Fat Dragon” flick back in his early days). His character is actually pretty realistic in terms of his fatness and size and somewhat believable. The action beats are all really good just wish the story matched bc it’s not very good and often silly.
I was amused by the recreation of a Shinjuku street in a HK soundstage. There’s no street in Shinjuku that looks like this but the effort to make it appear as such was neat. They did do a few on location scenes beyond the establishing shots which was cool esp. seeing the Triad gang walking down one of the main streets of Kabukichu. But most of this was all shot in HK and I was very impressed with the Tokyo Tower set. I get a kick out of seeing Naoto Takenaka pop up in a movie but kind of annoyed he’s playing another bumbling character here reminiscent of his role in SHALL WE DANCE.
Overall not a great movie but very watchable for Donnie Yen kicking ass in a fat suit and the heart on display. The use of the fat suit was also a great disguise for his stunt double so it really does seem like Yen is doing all those crazy fights. Worth mentioning that even tho his fatness is played for laughs they attempt to illustrate that it’s okay to be overweight. That doesn’t quite land as well and I’m sure there’s some who take offense of this body shaming and I wouldn’t disagree.
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