![]() Part of this "culture clash" deals in fairly broad comedy as Su Lin attempts to navigate a modern world and Jack attempts to explain the suddenĪppearance of this rather exotic young woman in his life. (Ni Ni) to contemporary America in an effort to keep her safe from an impending arranged marriage to nefarious bad guy Arun (Dave Bautista). In just one of several fairly hoary plot developments, an ancient Chinese warrior named Zhao (Mark Chao) delivers a damsel in distress named Su ![]() Striking resemblance to Jack's favorite videogame. Wing (Keye Luke), from Gremlins? That mysterious ifĬharacter at least had the good sense to try to shoo potential customers away from those nefarious little furry creatures, but in the caseĮnter the Warriors Gate, Jack's sometimes employer (Francis Ng) at a local (you guessed it) Asian themed antique shop gifts him with aīasket that turns out to act as a portal between Jack's increasingly perilous suburban environment and an ancient Chinese locale that bears a ![]() What is it about Asian themed antique stores that always seems to lead to some kind of unexpected adventure? Remember Grandfather, also Least offers Jack more of an opportunity to keep playing his favorite game. Annie, a single mother whose realty job has pretty much dried up, has her ownĮconomic issues, including the impending foreclosure of the family home, that keeps her in absentia a lot of the time, something that at Is perhaps seeking a bit of escape (in time honored teenager fashion) from both his put upon mother Annie (Sienna Guillory) as well as some localīullies who delight in tormenting the "97 pound weakling". Taking place within an historical context but which of course turns out to be a videogame being played by teenager Jack (Uriah Shelton), Originally released as simply The Warriors Gate) certainly has that ambience down pat, including an opening battle scene that seems to be A lot of contemporary action adventure films are often compared to videogames, and Enter the Warriors Gate Probably not all that surprising that screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Kamen don't ever really push the concept into any significantly newĭirections. With such an oft traveled path in front of them, it's The world of anime is virtually stuffed full of projectsĬharacters are more or less sucked into videogame environments, including such popular titles and/or franchises as Sword Art Online: Box Set I, Log Horizon: Collection 1 and. Within different contexts and with a decidedly various set of approaches and treatments. TRON of course springs instantly to mind,īut a number of other properties like The Last Starfighter and eXistenZ also ply much the same territory, albeit Interacting in some way, or which alternatively at least feature human characters putting their videogame skills to good use in some alternate ![]() There have been a number of films through the years where the intersection between videogames and "real life" leads to characters from both Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, June 6, 2017 ![]()
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