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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 02 Sep 2015

Despite hokum, bad plotting, stereotypical characters and mediocre acting, 'Dragon Blade' does deliver crowd-pleasing battles and gorgeous scenery…

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By Charles Bramesco (223) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 02 Sep 2015

Basic elements of production that audiences take for granted-fripperies such as coherent editing or logical character behavior-go horribly…

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By Cary Darling (452) for Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com (553) on 02 Sep 2015

Dragon Blade is undercut by woeful miscasting and tonal shifts that veer from drama to comedy and maudlin overreach…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 01 Sep 2015

Daniel Lee’s elaborate Chinese historical action epic Dragon Blade certainly gets points for creative casting, as well as its gorgeous widescreen…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Sep 2015

Whether it’s introducing random flashes of white screen or slowing down shots to a stuttered chop, Dragon Blade seems to be going out of…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 01 Sep 2015

Cusack and Brody are painful to watch in their ill-suited roles…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 01 Sep 2015

Dragon Blade remains familiar, but it's also passionate and competently assembled, only really losing step when it lingers on the obvious instead…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 01 Sep 2015

There's plenty of goofiness to go around in this lavish production, awash as it is in CG sunsets, slow-motion shots of blades and arrows penetrating…

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By Andrew Dowler (11) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 01 Sep 2015

This handsomely mounted historical epic tells the story of Chinese Silk Road peacekeepers who clashed and cooperated with a fugitive Roman…

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By Travis Hopson (923) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 01 Sep 2015

The battles, of which there are many, are unique in that they combine Roman fighting techniques with traditional Chinese martial arts, a visual…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Aug 2015

The picture never quite finds its tone: It's neither go-for-broke outrageous enough to be consistently funny, nor energetic enough to be viscerally…

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By Mohar Basu (50) for The Times of India (879) on 31 Aug 2015

Chan's Dragon Blade is a pleasant surprise, executed with visible grandeur and can claim to be an earnestly performed, crisply edited, smart [film]…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Aug 2015

Slacker and even less involving than the similarly terrible global kill-fest Last Knights, but easier to watch for the inadvertent camp value…

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By Whitney Scott Bain (9) for Starburst (899) on 25 Aug 2015

There are some bright moments in the movie but, sadly, Dragon Blade is unfulfilling as a whole…

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By Maggie Lee (98) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Jun 2015

The writer-director has overcome his tendency to weave florid plots that quickly run out of steam, here forging a coherent narrative that’s…

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By James Marsh (180) for Screen International (2,241) on 26 Jun 2015

Committed performances, a hefty budget and assured hands behind the camera ensure that Dragon Blade delivers on its promise of sprawling battle…

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By Clarence Tsui (39) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Jun 2015

Exerting significant control over the film – from a screenplay filled with modern resonance to very effective production design – Lee just…

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