Dragon Blade (2015)

People are voting emotionally.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Blistering performances.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

I would put my money on Cusack with a strong contender in Brody (most likely his worst screen play performance ever).The film kicks off on a note of "based on a true story" in other words "watch out crap ahead".After a brief BMW commercial for the Chinese market the inevitable takes place. Zero to none effort was made to make the film even remotely accurate - at least they could have tried to get armoury and stuff right.While watching you will ask yourself "do they really mean that?" - apparently they do. Otherwise there is now explanation for the bad "storyline" (there is no story anyway).Even the fight scenes are lacking enthusiasm. Please don't hurt your eyes with this one - bad enough I watched it to the end, which I only did to confirm that this is in fact the worst film I have ever seen.

How do people get funding for things like this. I just kept hoping it wold get better but to no avail. Was it meant to be this bad? Is this the style in China? I can expect this from Jackie but John should have know better. Was he hard up for money? Don't waste you time. I'll never get those two hours of my life back.

I'm sure the story line was good, and based on other reviews it's about a time in the history of the Silk Road. I would actually enjoy a historical drama and usually love anything Jackie Chan does... but the script was so forced and bad, just can think of better word. Both Jackie Chan and John Cusack are good actors but this was a horrible train wreck and I could not continue watching... I even tried a 2nd time when it was on again. I hope Jackie makes more historical movies but hope he gets better writers.

This film is terrible, from the painfully fake wigs to the creepy yet hilarious blind child,I cannot see what they spent the budget on! (Probably on the three main actors and 2304k cameras so we can see every single pore in Cousaks face).The story starts off with a cheesy fight between some odd looking Mongol barbarian types and some Hindu looking people. Jackie Chan jumps into the mix but fails to deliver his usually hilarious performance.Later on he gets arrested and sent to work as slave labour and a few seconds later he's back in control of the city and the man who apparently hated him is now cheering.A Roman legion (With advanced building skills) some how thinks it's clever to charge a fortified city while on horseback! Jackie Chan who's no longer a laborer greets him and lets in the army that was seconds ago trying to invade.They become friends and fix a wall by using tons and tons of metal which would probably have taken a lot longer to collect, melt hammer and bolt into place. Anyways we find out there's a creepy blind kid who is obviously Chinese but some how got cast as a Roman emperor wearing a blonde wig, he can sing Latin even though everyone speaks English. oh by the way he sings what sounds like medieval Latin, not Roman Latin.Anyways I digress, the bad guy (Tiberius, a roman consul or something) arrives and simply walks in through the fortifications that the entire start of the film centered around! not even a single arrow was shot, they just waltz in! Cousak is captured and tortured and the Wigged up emperor child jumps off a cliff while he bawls his eyes out. We find out Adrian Brody (Tiberius) is just butt-hurt because Cousak fell in love with the child and not him. He proceeds to breathe vigorously for the rest of the scene. Somewhere in there we have a flashback of Jackie Strangling his sister and killing her, then flash back to the present.....At this point I quit and turned it off.