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ENTER THE FAT DRAGON: Win A Copy Of The New Donnie Yen Action Comedy From Well Go USA!

Donnie Yen is in the mix this week and stirring the pot with news both film-related and otherwise. Best of all is he’s tapped Well Go USA for his latest transition to stateside home physical media, Enter The Fat Dragon. Spiritually reimagined from Sammo Hung’s 1978 original kung fu classic, the revival is shepherded by stunt industry professional Kenji Tanigaki in his feature-directing debut, with Yen in yet another body-consuming costumed role. ENTER THE FAT DRAGON is a hilarious chronicle of the events that transformed super-fit super-cop Fallon Zhu (martial arts phenom Donnie Yen) into a glorified records clerk with a major snack cake habit. After a desperate request from an old colleague, Zhu teams up with a wily, wok-wielding restaurateur to solve a mysterious murder—and take his one last shot at regaining both his job and his fiancée. I don’t have a star rating system on this site, but […]

ENTER THE FAT DRAGON Review: A Paunchy Donnie Yen Leads An Underdog Love Story Worth Its Weight In ‘…Water’!

Lee B. Golden III

Donnie Yen‘s new action comedy, Enter The Fat Dragon, presents a bit of an opportunity for viewers to interpret what exact the so-called “thin line” between love and hate really means. For fans of Yen’s usual style and caliber of cinematic action and gravitas, there’s plenty to take away in terms of overall enjoyment, while the film’s more archetypal adherences in story and character development bode moreso as acquired tastes to a certain extent. If you’re an fan of overwrought romantic high-jinks and silliness in films such as Dragons Forever and Police Story, the story between Fallon Zhu (Donnie Yen) and Chloe (Niki Chow) feels like a homely welcome back to classic Hong Kong cinema comedy. Though Chloe struggles to ascend the hierarchy in her acting career, Fallon is the one who lands the spotlight. His duty bound and dogmatic gumption for enforcing the law is often plagued by haplessness, […]

ENTER THE FAT DRAGON: Donnie Yen Outweighs The Competition In The Official U.S. Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

I’ve heard some good things thusfar with respect to action maestro and regular Donnie Yen cohort Kenji Tanigaki’s recent directorial feat, Enter The Fat Dragon, a derivative and tributary action comedy nod to Sammo Hung’s 1978 Bruce Lee riff. Tanigaki’s own resumè consists of a sprawling list of who’s-who in hit Asian action films, including and especially in his purview as an elite stunt professional on films like the Rurouni Kenshin trilogy and the Dynasty Warrior game franchise. He rejoins Yen with a script by co-star Wong Jing, and writers Lui Koon-nam and Ronald Chan. Sent to Japan on a routine police escort, Officer Zhu is excited to have the chance to requalify for full time duty as a police officer. However, after a series of mishaps, the mission goes terribly wrong and the suspect Officer Zhu is escorting suffers a mysterious death. Zhu enlists the help of wok-wielding restaurant […]

ENTER THE FAT DRAGON: Donnie Yen Teases His Contemporary Spin On An Action Comedy Classic

Lee B. Golden III

Donnie Yen fans hard on for another headlining gangbuster actioner after the family-tethered Big Brother will soon have their day with Enter The Fat Dragon, a nod to the 1978 Sammo Hung classic that now takes on a life of its own. Yen reunites with Wong Jing (Chasing The Dragon) who also shares directing duties with fellow Yen regular, Kenji Tanigaki who serves in the action department as he’s done on a number of stellar titles of late, including last year’s Big Brother, and also the Ruroini Kenshin trilogy and Jiang Wen’s Hidden Man to name a few. Fallon Chu (Donnie Yen) is a Hong Kong Police Special Task Force agent. He is an agile fighter with a high crime detection rate and a police role-model in the eye of the public. Unfortunately, his fiancée dumped him before their marriage. Heartbroken, he indulges himself in food to relieve his pain. […]

FIVE-A-DAY COUNTDOWN: Enter The Fat Dragon, Ip Man 4, Avengement, Abduction, and Triple Threat

Lee B. Golden III

Last week saw the first 25 titles to start the five-a-day countdown through December, and so here’s five more toward the goal of 100: Enter The Fat Dragon: Considered one of the biggest titles for buzz during the American Film Market as sales art was emblazoned on Screen International’s front page (the same artwork people cropped and called a “new poster” ?), Kenji Tanigaki’s directorial debut may be first on the menu for Donnie Yen fans. A titular homage to a Sammo Hung classic, Donnie Yen plays a Hong Kong top-cop whose personal romantic hang-ups compel him into massive, depression-induced food consumption. From what I’ve gathered, the fat dragon will enter theaters and gobbles up crime for its Hong Kong release beginning February 9, 2019. Ip Man 4: The journey continues into the 1960s when our titular Wing Chun grandmaster sets out to America to set things straight as once […]

ENTER THE FAT DRAGON: Donnie Yen Announces Remake Plans With Wong Jing For Later This Year

Lee B. Golden III

It’s a bit of a guessing game pertaining to some of the gems actor Donnie Yen has been throwing at fans on social media. Its taken confirmed trade news and other reports to help weave together a more concrete idea on what to expect from the action star as he’s notoriously piled on in the last several years. Thus, some projects are non-existent. Other are still lying in wait and as of Yen’s recent news conference next to celebrated filmmaker and producer Wong Jing while promoting their latest pairing on Chasing The Dragon, word of more remake fare for Hong Kong cinema fans fond of Sammo Hung’s 1978 hit, Enter The Fat Dragon. Hung starred and directed the action comedy centered on a pig farmer who finds himself showcasing his fighting prowess as he’s pitted against swarms of thugs upon arriving in the big city to aid his uncle’s restaurant. […]