City Dragon

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.

City Dragon! I bought this film last year.. and up to now, I haven't seen it! Until I saw it yesterday. I must admit, it's one of those low budget rap, chop socky, kung fu, urban ghetto, romance stuff of a movie! What I find so bad is, why would someone like director 'Philthy' Phil Phillips come up with so much pappy show - where our hero 'raps' when he talks to people, and even so when he flirts with the girls? Where does he get all those acting talents from..?

The bad John played by J.Daran.. I don't really see him much of a bad guy.. but I guess with that performance - he was just trying it on.

There were so many flaws about this movie that I felt it sucked! The acting was way below par.. Somehow the volume of the movie wasn't really that serious.. and when you think about a martial arts movie.. The storyline has got to be top notch. Solid! This one was too soft.

MC Kung Fu may've made his name on there. But I felt he could give his character more depth, rather than be just this 'gigolo' who wears fancy clothes, have muscles like Schwarzenegger and have this 'rockabilly' hair cut.

After watching this movie.. I felt this wasn't my kind of movie.. It's a shame that Phil Phillips made only one movie.. Maybe the audience felt this sort of film wasn't really up to their standards. Yes! They would laugh.. But at the end of the day, this is one movie they wouldn't want to pay their money to see..

I bought this 'City Dragon' DVD free with another DVD at some secondhand shop.

You know what? I sent it back there and got £2.00 for it.

Sorry Phil, your movie's awful! 0 out of 10!

So I couldn't tell if this movie was a soft-core porn or just a cheesy action flick for the first 20 minutes*. There are some awesome lines about sugar and cream. Thank goodness MC Kung Fu fell in love and started wooing his woman then we could get to the heart of this movie, the dialogue. Solid Gold. All of MC Kung Fu's guy friends "rap-talk". The women don't say much unless they're getting seduced with a 1992 Camero. Hello hot car. The fight scenes are few and far between, but there are some awesome Segal-esquire moves. Well early Seagalese stuff. MC Kung Fu actually does kicks. If you like bad movies I say you should check it out.

*I actually have no idea how long this took as time ceased to exist during this film.

I think the overall production was done well, but a little bit to much rapping liquor store fight scene was the best had legit looking hoodlums.