Warning: This review may contain spoilers
"Dueling Dragons" (Sha po lang, 2005) has three luxury players Donnie Yen ( "Iron Monkey" ), Sammo Hung , making the villain, and Simon Yam ( "Election" ). This was the first collaboration between Donnie Yen and director Wilson Yip ( "White Dragon" ). The film was a success both critically and audience, and actor and director has returned to work together on four occasions. Here we went straight to DVD, as is usual in all action films made in Hong-Kong, who do not have Jackie Chan or Jet Li as protagonists.
Detective Chan ( Simon Yam) attempts to prosecute the crime boss Po (Sammo Hung ) but princiapal control and most of his family are killed. Chan takes over the daughter of the deceased, while giving the news that has a brain tumor. Some time later, Chan is about to retire from the police but before you get it over with Po, so he and his team and his replacement, Inspector Ma (Donnie Yen ) seek to gather evidence to incriminate the mobster in the murder of an undercover cop.
"Dueling Dragons" is not your typical action movie where the good are very good and the bad very bad. The Detective Chen and his team do not hesitate to bypass the law if it is for the greater good, and the tactics they use are not much different from that of the people we seek, like that scene in which one of the police abusing a mentally disabled . The inspector Ma, but more integrated, is burdened by the fact that he caused a brain injury to a suspect who hit too hard. In contrast, although the villain played by Sammo Hung is a ruthless gangster, trying simultaneously to be a good husband and father.
Sammo Hung is precisely who stands out in the cast, playing a great and awesome villain. It is noteworthy as fighting continues despite its size and already have 53 years at the time of filming. For its part Donnie Yen also choreographed the fights, particularly remarkable in fights that of his character. As Simon Yam , the most actor of the trio and without knowledge of martial arts, is a little neglected at the end of the film, although he has been the theme of the story. Also noteworthy is Wu Jing, who plays a murderer who is always dressed in white.
Although there are spectacular fights, the film is not a series of one fight after another, but it is a story to tell, that little by little develops and makes you get involved in it and with the characters. That does not mean that they are fighting to remove the hiccups, especially the final showdown between Donnie Yen and Ju Wing, and then himself against Yen Sammo Hung .
is precisely the resolution of this conflict that will surely frozen to most viewers, not usual, and will cause many to reach the end credits, renege on the film. To me at that time left me cold, but when I returned to see, knowing what was going on, it seemed even better film but it is missing at least we clarify the fate of the character of Sammo Hung and a better conclusion than that of Simon Yam on the beach. If it were not for these defects, this would be a masterpiece. Yet we face one of the best action movies that have been made in recent years.
Best : Sammo Hung and the spectacular fights
worst: His final
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