Dragon Tiger Gate

Big Dumb Movies, or BDM's, hold a special place in my heart. There are occassions when all I want to do is sit back and vegetate on the sofa with a beer and some chips n dips and be entertained wisually without having to think too much.
Well, here's sopmething that looks like its ready to take all necessity for thinking out of the loop and just entertain us visually.
In fact, after clumsily inroducing the main characters, Wilson Yip becomes as bored with the storyline as no doubt we will. He quickly shrugs off the story, and gets on with the action!
Dragon Tiger Gate is loosely based on Tony Wong’s long-running 70’s comic book, and is set to be the next big thing of Hong Kong cinema. The plot is as disposable as a used condom, but its apparent that Yip is aware of this, so doesn't dwell to laboriously on it, instead, quickly rifling through the basics, then letting the action kick off.
Dragon Tiger Gate is a super righteous martial arts school. Top student is Tiger, who arguably proves he is cooler than Jesus! Tiger has an evil brother. The film has gloriously staged sets, just screaming out for untold wire-tastic stunts in fight sequences. Ahhh simplicity!
Tiger and his gang of merry men head over to a restaurant set (as mentioned above, supremely laid out for a big fight). Unfortunately, Dragon shows up at the restaurant to get back a plaque. Fortunately, he turns out to be a righteous guy and he has half of the medallion that Nic Tse’s Tiger has, proving they’re brothers. Unfortunately, he punches Tiger to take back the plaque. Fortunately, he doesn’t hit him too hard because he has a grudging respect for Tiger. Unfortunately, another bad guy in his gang has drugged Tiger’s gang so the fight isn’t fair. Fortunately, Dragon gets angry about this and beats up his own gang. Unfortunately, this winds up upsetting all the other patrons. Fortunately, one of the patrons is Turbo, played by Shawn Yue, who is instantly identifiable as a lead character in this movie because he obviously spends way too much time on his hair. Unfortunately, it turns out the plaque was a gift to Dragon’s boss from a guy named Shibumi. Fortunately, like I said, by this point director Wilson Yip is as tired of the plot as we are and he basically abandons it letting brief, pointless dialogue scenes serve as place-fillers between the action, which is plenteous.
Lots of hair styles, old men playing young men, pointless dialogue, gratuitously staged fights and bucket loads of hefty martial arts. This one is gonna be a riptaqstic BDM. Keep your eyes peeled!