Review of Forbidden Warrior (2004) by Robert B — 25 Jul 2009

The film makers pondered the question What if we made a film part Lord of the Rings/ part Chinese martial arts drama grabbed some local (LA) actors/ martial artists, oh, and I know a guy who is a great musical composer, call in some favors on some digital compostiing for castle mattes etc.

.. This is the result. This is not a great movie but compared to a lot of low budget flicks the cast and crew did a decent job. The martial arts fighting was competent and the director was clever enough to keep the camera moving and in close for most of it.

But some stuff will fall through the cracks; supporting actors a bit weak. The story gets odd at the end. The music is too big for this film. A huge threatening score for the Pirates raiding a down. The Pirates are 4 guys and a woman.

Same thing with the oppossing armies. Mayve 20 or 30 guys facing off. The leaf boat rocks. Someone went to a lot of trouble to disguise a row boat as a leaf. On the positive side you could seriously waste 2 hours on a lesser film.

The 10 to 13 year old crowd would enjoy this. Psst, whatever you do don't let Rush Limbaugh types watch this as all the major roles are done by Asian actors and all the supporting stereotypical comedy stuff is done by white actors.

Trust me they'd freak out.