Dance Of The Dragon (2/10)

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[/caption]Ballroom dancing and martial arts. The soft versus the hard. Does it get anymore cliched artsy fartsy than this?Two somewhat new directors share credit but not one of them can write a decent dialogue. Their inexperience really showed. Some of the frames were beautifully shot but the progression was simply horrible. The audience were left to assume many things.In the entire movie, it looked like there were only five actors; the rest could not look more like extras even if they tried. Jason Scott Lee was perhaps the best actor in here as he made the best of his lines. Hyuk Jang's English wasn't great but he didn't have that many lines. Faye Wong on the other hand, although stunning, always seemed forced in her acting. Very unnatural and sometimes never escape that Singapore style of delivering lines where one would split a sentence into two. Horrible.The writing also made Lee an easy target as the antagonist, very one dimensional. His character had so much room for depth but what was added didn't create more value for him.Logic went out the window even even when the writers were writing it. Some of the progressions were just silly and stupid, especially the wushu showdown. And I don't see why this movie should be made at all.Thanks Sophia, for the DVD. That's almost two hours of my life I'll never get back. By the way, I even finished writing this review 20 minutes before the movie ended. Wow, it got even more painful to watch...