Dragon

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  • Opened November 30, 2012 
  • 1 hr 54 min
  • R | Violence
  • Liu Jin-xi (Yen) is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper’s life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu (Kaneshiro). Convinced that Liu’s martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region’s vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy hero—and draws the attention of China’s criminal underworld in the process. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tang Wei, Jimmy Wang Yu, Kara Hui Ying-hung, Li Xiaoran
  • Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan
  • Genres: Action/Adventure, Art House/Foreign, Drama

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Time
| Mary Pols

When a mild-mannered peasant unsheathes the powers he has long kept hidden, the results can be spectacular. The same can be said for Peter Chan Ho-sun's Dragon, a martial-arts morality play as lithe as it is forceful. Read full review

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Village Voice
| Nick Pinkerton

The roaring popular success of Peter Chan's Wu xia in China - renamed Dragon for export - is no mystery: It's an adept genre exercise with rare primal depths. Read full review

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New York Post
| Farran Smith Nehme

It's never dull though, and the familiar characters and stock motivations are convincingly put across. And there's always Xu, who's turned to acupuncture to suppress his empathy, as you wait for the inevitable moment when suppressing it won't be enough. Read full review

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Los Angeles Times
| Robert Abele

Dragon has enough interesting left turns in style, mood and psychodrama to make it stand out. Read full review

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Donnie Yen in "Dragon."