Tears of the Black Dragon is a film brought to us from Thailand and it is a cult movie that is a genre crossing action packed visually fun movie that allows you to just escape and enjoy. It is a action ,romance, comedy film that has some fantastic visual colors that help shape this world the movie takes place in. The poke fun at not only romance movies, but spaghetti westerns and even the fantasy asian kung fu film. With a movie where the name of the main character is Dum and his lover/ wannabe wife called Rumpoey you know this movie is not meant to be serious. The violence is over the top and everywhere but it is so overly colored that it is more humorous than shocking. The dialog overly cheesy but its meant to be. Thats what makes it entertaining., its a bad movie meant to be bad. You know right from the begining you are to have fun with the film.
There is one part where their is a wicked shoot out with some over the top action. One of the stunts is so over the top the movie stops and asks if you want to see that again so you can catch all the action that happened in slow mo. Classic.
The costuming ranges from old west to 50s teen. Some of the camera work reminds me of the old 50's romance films while the oddly filtered colors help bring emotion to the scene.
I recommend this film for the spaghetti western lovers and also to those who enjoy a good foreign action comedy romance. Similar movies of this style are Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle, to excellent and must see comedies.
3 and a half stubs
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