Konterr Brilliant and touching

Mabel Munoz Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

WatchedAllMovies It's a fairly typical HK swords fight movie -- not too bad, not too good. The plot is, the bad guy (Donnie Yen character) wants to eliminate one of his adversary and used two children as bait to lure out his adversary so he can be eliminated.The romance between the Brigitte Lin character and the Tony Leung character could be more convincing if they use actress and actor of the same age.There is one surprise hilarious moment near the end during the final battle. I wasn't expecting that because there is no other funny stuff in this movie. However, I think they should add more funny scenes like that.At the end, there is a big plot hole: the whole army disappeared, only the main bad guy went and fight the good guys.

Dan Starkey Even as Hong Kong wuxia movies go, this one is wild, replete with a Hotel California in the middle of the northern Chinese desert, a marauding crew of arrow wielding horsemen, the evil eunuch from Butterfly and Sword, a lovable midget barbarian, the beautiful Maggie Cheung, and the gender bending immortal Brigitte Lin. Maggie Cheung carries the movie with hilarious style. Donnie Yen sweeps into the end of the movie looking like Priscilla Queen of the Desert. The final battle scene culminates in a sudden surprise so ludicrous that I laughed out loud, even though I was alone. The film's only disappointment is the wooden love interest Tony Leung (KF, not the much better CW) - why would Maggie fall for such a stiff? Dragon Inn is simply a fun film, and comparing it to the pretentious and boring Crouching Tiger, as other reviewers do, does it a disservice.

Rampaging Hulk Where to start? This is an absolutely phenomenal martial arts movie. It is difficult to escape making comparisons with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, so I won't bother. This film is much better. The martial arts are absolutely stunning. Donnie Yen as the big bad eunuch is unbelievably solid - watching the film it is difficult not to laugh at times because everybody is so ridiculously hard, but that's why we watch kung fu, right? Unlike Crouching Tiger this film focuses slightly more on ground work and less on the fly-by-wire kung fu that we see so much of in recent Hong Kong cinema, which is essentially a good thing because the martial arts are more realistic - however, the feats performed by the characters in this film are far from believable. I digress....... Kung Fu movies are not ALL about the fighting, though, and this film delivers the goods in all other departments as well. It is superbly directed (not just in the fight scenes), and actually has a compelling plot (very rare in kung fu) and superb performances from the actors, especially Maggie Cheung, of 'Police Story' fame. 'The New Dragon Gate Inn' has a great storyline, centred around rebel fighters trapped in an inn with evil officials in the room next door, and manages to switch from great intensity to comedy without missing a beat. Probably the best new school kung fu movie I have seen. The final fight scene is ABSOLUTELY INSANE. Watch it now.

Fox in Socks 'scuse me while I go off on one.I watched this last night and realised something. Any martial artist should be able to tell you about "soft" and "hard" arts. Hard arts are all about immediate impact, force, visible effect. Soft arts affect you internally and subtly in ways you are not immediately aware of.New Dragon Gate Inn has finally shown me that there are soft and hard martial arts movies. It's a visual treat with stunning set pieces, but I didn't realise the effect it was having on me until it was over.It's difficult now to discuss any historic/fantasy MA film without referring to CTHD, because good or bad, it's become the standard. Well, I thought it was overrated, had it's moments, but wasn't as inspiring as people seem to make out, compared to Iron Monkey, Once Upon A Time In China etc. Well, I'm getting from this film what everybody else is getting out of CTHD, so now I'm happy.Oh yeah.. kung hei fat choi!