Bridge of Dragons
USA
1999. Director: Isaac Florentine
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Valerie Chow, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
The world is gone again, nuked silly, and now
rules the evil General Ruechang (Tagawa). We know he's evil because
all of his armoury and all his vehicles are marked "666" and his soldiers
are dressed in German WW2 uniforms. When the beautiful princess Halo
(Chow) escapes on their wedding day Ruechang calls in mercenary Warchild
(Lundgren) to get her back. Only Warchild falls in love with Halo and
they instead join the rebels in their fight for freedom.
To my surprise Bridge of Dragons is one of the coolest Dolph Lundgren movies in recent memory. It's trash but it looks great, thanks to the nice Bulgarian background and good cinematography, and it has plenty of slo-mo shoot-outs, kung-fu fights, mud-fights, chopper-fights and over-the-top stunts to compensate for the stupid and predictable story. In style it resembles those supercheap Filipino post-apocalypse flicks of the mid-'80s, only more slick but with an equally large body-count, and Dolph also seem more comfortable in army uniform than in suit while Chow is a good asskicking heroine. I won't say the film is indispensable, but it's entertaining enough. Look it up now. What the title means? No one knows.
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