Dragon Blade
Lionsgate Premiere | Release Date: September 4, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
4
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
30
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinSep 3, 2015
The movie's grandiose emotional quotient never feels any more real than its ham-fisted dialogue, dubious accents, strained "Kumbaya" moments or eclectic hairdos. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonSep 3, 2015
As Tiberius, who seems not to have been based on any Tiberius of history, Mr. Brody brings to the film a combination of heroin-chic and Basil Rathbone. Also, an extraordinary level of sadistic cruelty. People are burned alive, crushed like insects, hurled from rooftops. They may not deserve all this. But neither do we. Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla DargisSep 3, 2015
Dragon Blade is the kind of nutsy maximalist entertainment that isn’t content merely to tap a handful of influences. Instead, it stuffs an entire encyclopedia of dicey ideas (visual, narrative, political) into a blender to create a wacky, eyeball-popping and -glazing extravaganza. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsStephen WhittySep 3, 2015
An epic in China, it’s been trimmed here in the States. But this movie didn’t need a cut, it needed a beheading. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineChuck BowenAug 31, 2015
Slacker and even less involving than the similarly terrible global kill-fest Last Knights, but easier to watch for the inadvertent camp value of two of the prominent performances. Read full review
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