![]() The Wizard stops time and the army is frozen. The Warrior who sent the Princess to stay with Jack is there and there is an army of barbarians trying to kill them. The barbarians take the Princess back into the other realm through the Warriors Gate but when Jack goes in after her he arrives somewhere else. The next morning, barbarians from the game realm come to kill the Princess but she fights them off, destroying the house in the process. Jack gets to know Princess Su Lin and she stays with him overnight. A warrior, Zhao tells him that the ‘Black Knight’ has to look after the most precious thing in the kingdom the Princess. Jack goes to sleep with the thing in his room and wakes up with a sword at his neck. A family heirloom, The Warriors Gate, from Mr Cheng’s cousin in Beijing arrives at the shop and he gives it to Jack as a gift. When Jack goes to a biking park, Travis, a neighbourhood bully and his friends chase after him and he hides inside his bosses shop and helps out. His mother is trying to sell the house they live in before it goes into foreclosure. Jack Bronson is a teenager who spends his free time playing warrior video games and working at a Chinese curios and antiques shop. It was released in China on November 18, 2016, in 2D, 3D and China Film Giant Screen 3D, and on video on demand in the United States on May 5. ![]() Technically, The Warrior’s Gate is up to snuff as a mid-budget action-fantasy, but director Hoene keeps things competent rather than creative, and shows little of the flair he did in Cockneys vs Zombies, hobbled perhaps by the dearth of truly florid English to play with.The Warriors Gate (Chinese: 勇士之門, also released as Enter the Warriors Gate) is a 2016 Chinese-French action-adventure-fantasy film directed by Matthias Hoene and written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. He’s clearly co-starring in another, better movie in his head. Fortunately, Bautista is on hand to deliver a spot-on, deadpan performance as the warlord surrounded by ineptitude who just wants to marry the heiress, kill her for the throne and conquer the world. Anachronistic English isn’t a new idea, nor is the blustery best buddy whose dialogue mostly comprises, “ Duuuude, she’s haaaawt,” or the initial misunderstanding of martial arts philosophy. Like EuropaCorp’s last substantial hit, Lucy, Warrior’s Gate has its own ridiculous internal logic, but lacks the goofy glee that accommodates suspension of disbelief to go with it. ![]() Besson and co-writer Robert Mark Kamen’s (the Transporter and Taken series) script is peppered with moderately amusing comic bits - Hong Kong veteran Francis Ng as Wizard Wu channeling Charles Nelson Reilly and Arun’s full title are high points - but the fish-out-of-water antics with Sulin at the mall and life lessons about avoiding personal challenges are purely cookie-cutter filmmaking. We know the second we meet him that Jack will exact some kind of revenge on his bully in the end we know he’ll somehow save his home from foreclosure with his mad gaming skillz and we know he’ll teach the upright Sulin and the uptight Zhao to bend the rules from time to time. There are few moments in Warrior’s Gate that seasoned viewers will not recognize for what they are the minute they happen. After somehow channeling his Black Knight alter ego and saving Sulin from a doomed marriage to the villainous Arun (Bautista) - despite the trained-since-birth-to-protect-the-emperor-Zhao’s presence - Jack goes home and saves his mom, too. Before you can say “culture-clash romance,” Jack jumps into the portal and is transported to an equally anonymous place and time in ancient China.įrom there the story wades into familiar territory, wherein the cowardly Jack, with his low self-esteem, is made brave and confident with martial help and wise words from Zhao and a chaste romance with Sulin. Believing Jack to be the Black Knight - his online gaming avatar (don’t ask, the movie doesn’t really explain how this happens) - imperial warrior Zhao ( So Young‘s Mark Chao) comes through with Princess Sulin (Ni Ni of Bride Wars) in tow. Chang has given him a part-time job, which, lo and behold, is a portal to a mysterious land. On the verge of losing their house, Jack takes home an antique box from the shop where the kindly Mr. In a contemporary, anonymous, vaguely California-ish town, Jack Bronson ( Uriah Shelton of The Glades) is juggling his online gaming obsession, school bullies (naturally) and his mother Annie’s ( Luther‘s Sienna Guillory) money anxiety.
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