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SYNOPSIS:
A pretty but vain University student Black Phoenix (Cecilia Cheung) dreams of marrying the handsome young Prince Tian Yang (Andy On). However, events take a sharp turn when she is bestowed with super powers when a secret hero (who is the University’s maid) who got bad injury in an encounter with the notorious blind assassin Chicken Feathers (a brilliantly played Francis Ng). With her newfound powers, she confronts Chicken Feathers only to sustain a broken leg. She is nursed back to health by Chicken Feathers himself, who reveals himself to be a righteous man who rights the wrongs in society. As he’s diametrically opposed to the Prince, who wants him dead, Black Phoenix is surprised to find herself falling for the blind swordsman and must choose between the two before one is forced to kill the other.
RATING: 8.5/10
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" Although familiar and highly predictable, “White Dragon” benefits from two excellent actors in the lead. Francis Ng, an old favorite from “Bullets Over Summer” (also directed by Yip) and his exasperated villain in “Heroic Duo”, plays the blind Feather with just the right combination of heroics and questionable intelligence. Feather was blinded as a child, and although we never did know how Feather attained his awesome martial arts ability (he’s so invincible that even kicking him in the crotch only gets you a broken leg), it doesn’t really matters. Ng sells the character so well that even when Yip over saturates the film with cheesy music (which he does quite a bit), you could care less.
With Ng dominating the film with his affable performance, Cecilia Cheung runs the risk of overplaying her hand as the spoiled heroine. Coming off the nihilistic “One Nite in Mongkok”, and before that the tour de force of “Lost in Time”, Cheung hits her comedic strides with just enough flair to keep from morphing into a long lost third Twins. And it’s to the script’s credit that Cheung’s White Dragon remains, from beginning to end, a vain teenager who knows for a fact that she’s pretty, and don’t you forget it. Cheung’s scenes with Ng, as the two antagonists slowly come to appreciate one another, are the highlight of “White Dragon”.
Since the film is part wuxia, there are plenty of flying battles and superpowered moves, most of it taking place early in the film to set up the main romantic comedy premise. Yip chooses some luscious forest setting similar to Zhang Yimou’s “House of Flying Daggers” for the battles, and indulges in some nifty camerawork and swordplay. The only problem is that “White Dragon” is a comedy first, so there’s no brutality or gritty action in the fights. And of course having White Dragon inform us, in voiceover, that she hopes Feather doesn’t ruin her pretty face (her words) even as they’re slugging it out prevents the scenes from achieving any sense of seriousness.
Not that you’ll go to “White Dragon” for gritty swordplay in the first place. It’s very much a romantic comedy, employing the usual formulas of the genre with some minor exceptions. The script also breaks rank from conventions by making Andy On’s Prince Tian-yang sympathetic and not the “Jerk Boyfriend” that the audience is suppose to hate, but the heroine can’t seem to realize — until the ending, that is. Cecilia Cheung is lively in a comedy role that works (for once, unlike her abysmal stab at comedy in “Sex and the Beauties”) and Francis Ng proves once again that when you have talent comedy is a cinch. "
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