FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE is a pseudo follow-up to the Tsui Hark-produced NEW DRAGON GATE INN, with Hark now stepping into the directorial role. Sadly, it seems to have been made as an excuse to throw as many 3D effects at the screen as is humanly possible, in the form of CGI swords, weapons, wooden beams, explosions and anything else they can think of. The plot itself is a confused mess, with a mish-mash of rival characters meeting up at the famous Dragon Gate Inn and proceeding to slaughter each other. Most of the cast are stiff and underwritten, with the exception of the enjoyable Tartar characters, and Jet Li is the only notable presence here. The best scene is the bombastic opening which has a nice Gordon Liu cameo, but it quickly goes downhill from that point. The rest is overlong, cliched, predictable and messy, a frenetic mess of a film guaranteed to induce a headache and little else.
Review of Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
