City Dragon

I understand that this was a comedy with martial arts action, but really, where was the good comedy and good martial arts action? I never saw it at all. I did see a ton of horrible acting and forced crappy comedy. The martial arts in the film was almost as impressive as TMNT, but without the fun of the turtles. Everything about this movie made me ashamed that I even considered watching it. I do believe that if I was given the option to watch this film again or have my first born killed in a very torturous way, I'd consider the latter. And I do love my first born very much. This movie may be one of the few films in the world that Michael Bay could do a remake of and it would turn out much better than the first. If stick figures were used to reenact all the action in the film it'd be better. The closest thing to a saving grace in this film is the rapping. That rocked the movie, but did not give it enough to make the thing worth watching.

I would never suggest this film to anyone unless you fully want your eyes to bleed and your ears to explode.

This film, is legendary, the DVD has 4 chapters, yet the film is about 2 hours long or something similar. If you can find it, it's well worth watching, there isn't a single moment in this film that can't be considered genius, from the cheese fest dialogue containing mostly rap, to the all the hollyoaks style issues they cover. After watching this film, i began to question real life situations with the words "What would city dragon do at a time like this?". It's filled with plot holes, and inconsistencies, the settings are like a porn film, but there's no porn in it, and yet, it's still a film i can sit down and watch with my friends and spend the whole thing laughing.

I'm shocked, really shocked, that Philthy Phil Phillips has only done 1 film. It's just plain shocking.

It's funny isn't it......sometimes you can watch a film from the relatively recent past yet it will look far more dated than something from the 70's and 80's(!) Such is the case with this often embarrassing effort which springs forth from a time when we were gyrating our hips in a bizarre manner to the tunes of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.

The story concerns a well muscled dude called Ray who along with his friends seems to communicate via a curious system of (cringe inducing) rapping. Our trio are 'dawgs' though - a colloquialism ostensibly denoting their proclivity for decidedly promiscuous sexual conduct with members of the fairer sex. Anyway, after a few on screen conquests it transpires that Ray actually falls head over heels in love with one lady; Awwww - well who can scoff at such true romance eh? Unfortunately however, said sexy lass has a deranged ex who just won't let her go. Trouble inevitably ensues and Ray is forced to fight for his woman......which he does in style.

I've got to say it, the guy playing Ray, Stan Derain (although here listed as MC Kung Fu) has some pretty slick moves for sure and gets to show them off quite regularly as he beats the crap out of various scum bags throughout proceedings. Will Ray manage to overcome the odds, keep his woman and succeed in being a good father to his unborn child? Will he call a welcome cessation to his interminable rapping antics? You'll just have to watch and see. Other than that, for such an obviously low budget, I feel that the makers are to be applauded for their obvious hard work; OK so this is no masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination but it is never anything less than entertaining throughout, whether it be the many fights our hero gets into, his unlikely sexual shenanigans which play out almost as hilariously as the on screen antics featured in many of the old 1970's British sex comedies or else the somewhat misplaced attempts at serious drama, this is certainly never dull.

For a slice of nineties nostalgia (with some added sex and martial arts) check this out.

I'm not exactly the writer/director/producer of this vanity project was going for, but it only makes for a mildly entertaining movie.

He plays the ultimate badboy. He charms the ladies, he can fight, he can rap.......like many in this genre he can do it all.

Our main character immediately beds 2 women but meets the ultimate woman, one who resists his charms for about 48 hours. There is a background story of a violent ex that is willing to get violent to get her back. You would think that is the main plot, but they don't revisit it until the very last moments of the film. In the meantime, our hero gets the ultimate woman pregnant and proposes to her so now he has to get a job(even though he owns a top notch Corvette.) His new boss is a lady who wants a piece of our ultimate hero. This makes for drama.

Throughout the entire film all the main characters talk in rhyme/"rap" to eachother. Funny for 5 minutes of this 90 minute film. Also gangs of people are regularly trying to assault our hero usually for next to no reason, including buying ice cream.

The production is low budget as you would expect, poor camera work, lighting and acting are in abundance. The stunt work is mostly guys circling the hero, stepping up to him and getting dispatched of in one hit. I will admit the hero looks good, but he is one and done with his fights as opposed to the back and fourth you might find elsewhere.

This vanity project has some good-bad film qualities but really isn't a must watch. The baby mamma drama is the meat of the movie and counterbalances the rest of the nonsense plot, bad characters and illogical fight scenes.

My friend bought the DVD for this at a 99p store, and I can honestly say it was the best 99p he ever spent. Possibly the funniest film I ever saw, it focuses subtly on all issues- domestic violence, pregnancy, safe sex, mental illness..this film has it all, except a car chase. ps. there is a certain fight scene- a "bruce lee tribute" that everyone should watch. If this is on, and you have a couple of friends, watch it. You will laugh more than ever before.