And while we're at it, you should accept that you are the hero they seek called 'The Black Knight' – because that is the name of your avatar in a similar video game – and not hesitate to journey back in time to fulfil your destiny.
You should also accept the warrior's explanation that the young lady who shows up with him dressed like a princess (Ni Ni) is indeed one, and that she is on the run from some very terrible people. As its hero Jack Bronson (newcomer Uriah Shelton) does, you should simply accept with little question that the English-speaking Chinese warrior Zhao (Mark Chao) in steel armour and straw hat who suddenly appears next to his bedside one evening has indeed travelled through a time portal in a waist-height drum-shaped chest he had received as a gift from the antiques dealer he helps out at after school.
You should not, in the first instance, expect it to make much sense, for it gives scant regard to logic or coherence. Such faint praise however is also premised on little expectation at the start, which is a prerequisite for any manner of enjoyment. And yet, if you're willing to put aside the obvious similarities, you're likely to find this reiteration more entertaining than you're expecting it to be. And last but not least, like the latter, it lets its modern-day Caucasian male protagonist fall in love with a steely yet gentle female from that era, the inter-ethnic coupling not only to pander to the teenage demographic but also to ensure its appeal to audiences on both sides of the continent. Like the latter, its humour is based on self-aware anachronism and its action of the traditional 'wushu' variety. Like the latter, it sends an American teenager back to ancient China where he learns to summon the warrior inside of him and teams up with a noble companion to save a kingdom from the clutches of an evil warlord. Interestingly enough, Hoene works off a script by two verifiable legends in the stylish action auteur Luc Besson, who writes and directs this summer’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets and Robert Mark Kamen, a mastermind who worked with Besson creating the Taken and The Transporter franchises and, much further back, was a primary visionary behind The Karate Kid films.It may wear its tag of being the first significant 'French-Chinese co-production' proudly on its sleeve, but 'The Warrior's Gate' is really no more than a rehash of another East-meets-West action comedy that you may remember from about a decade ago called 'The Forbidden Kingdom'. Mark Chao, Francis Chun-Yu Ng and Sienna Guillory also fill the cast.ĭirecting Enter the Warriors Gate is Matthias Hoene, whose one previous feature film was the 2012 comedic horror curiosity (one you’ve likely stumbled upon while channel surfing,) called Cockneys vs Zombies.
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Of course, the presence of Dave Bautista is highly touted, especially as the WWE wrestler-turned actor gets ready for May’s release of his Marvel movie sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Chinese starlet Ni Ni may be best known to Western audiences appearing opposite Christian Bale in the 2011 Chinese crossover drama The Flowers of War and, oddly enough, co-starred in a 2015 Chinese remake of the 2009 American comedy Bride Wars.
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Uriah Shelton, who plays Jack, is known to American television viewers for his run as a regular on sitcom revival Girl Meets World, the Julia Stiles-starring drama Blue and on A&E’s controversially cancelled crime series The Glades. With his magic-making allies, it becomes imperative that Jack’s skills with his thumbs translates physically inside the game world to keep the princess safe and topple the tyrant.Įnter the Warriors Gate features an interesting lineup of Chinese and Western stars. However, Jack’s goal and his apparent legend in this digital empire as the Black Knight puts him on a collision course with an evil barbarian king named Arun (Dave Bautista). Consequently, Jack gets sucked into the world of his video game where he is expected to “guard the most precious treasure of the empire” in Princess Su Lin (Ni Ni).
However, when a job tasks with keeping an ancient chest in his home, things go all Jumanji with the artifact’s magic manifesting a character from his video game seeking the help of the Black the Knight. Enter the Warriors Gate centers on a young protagonist – an American living abroad in China – named Jack (Uriah Shelton), who spends time playing a lavish fantasy style video game under the avatar of the Black Knight.
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