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Dragon Fight (1989)
Directed by Billy Tang
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Jimmy and Tiger are members of the Chinese national wushu team. The two are in Los Angeles to perform exhibitions. However, for Tiger, he plans to defect to L.A. to make a name for himself. When Jimmy learns of Tigers plan to defect, an attempt to stop him fails and Jimmy ends up missing his flight to China. Now a fish out of water, Jimmy’s only hope is Andy, a wisecracking youngster in L.A. Meanwhile, Tiger works for a mafia boss. When Tiger loses a fortune in cocaine in a detergent box that Andy accidentally took, Andy and Jimmy soon have no choice but to face the wrath of Tiger and his men. Their only ally is Penny, the girlfriend of Tiger’s boss. Two men who were once best friends have now become bitter enemies.
Length 96 minutes
Actors
Jet Li | Stephen Chow | Dick Wei | Nina Li Chi | Mark Williams | Michael McFall | Henry Fong Ping | Go Wang | Victor Chew | Steven Ho | Stuart Quan | Lynn McRee | Barry Wong | Kenny Perez
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/03/2022 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 5.5 stars |
| (Average) 5.5 stars |
Viewing Notes
This was the DriveInMob movie for the week kicking of their theme of MARCHIAL ARTS. This is another Golden Harvest flick “owned” by WB that hasn’t seen the light of day. After viewing it I can understand why there’s been no rush to make it available. It’s not very good and also rather problematic (not that either of those should be barriers). Reminded me a lot of that other not-so-hot Jet Li flick we watched that was set in Los Angeles, The Master. However, this one isn’t quite as bad as that one.
The best thing this one has going for it is it gives Dick Wei a rare co-starring role. During a tournament in San Francisco, Wei’s character decides he doesn’t want to return to China so he splits and gets caught up in the mob doing hitman dirty work for them so he can earn good money. Of course Jet Li doesn’t want this but also gets caught up in his own issues being in US illegally now. Oh worth noting that Stephen Chow has a supporting role here, which is the big reason I wanted to see this, but it’s much ado about nothing. He’s a local biz owner that gets caught up in stealing cocaine from the mob. The movie cares so little about his subplot that I don’t know what happened to him by the end.
The story sounds fine and it is fine. It’s just much of the execution and fighting and xenophobia hold it up from being a good movie. Of course, if WB decides to give this the full treatment I would be down for picking it up.
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