Honestly I wish his part in the movie was at least 30% bigger. There’s a great running joke about how one of his henchmen always accidentally kills the wrong person and Bautista treats him with the sort of benign exasperation anyone in middle management might give to an employee. More than anyone, he knows exactly what kind of movie he’s in. Bautista is great in this role, even though he’s not in it for very long. A warrior named Zhao ( Mark Chao) appears and tasks Jack with protecting a Princess, Su Lin ( Ni Ni) before promptly peacing out.Īrun wants to marry Princess Su Lin and then kill her after their wedding so that he can become Emperor. And what do you know, people from ancient China start popping out of it. Then one day Jack’s boss ( Francis Ng) gives him an ancient, magical chest, which happens to be the “warrior’s gate” of the film’s title. So Jack, like many kids, escapes into the world of video games because it’s the one place he can feel like a hero.
He’s being bullied in school and he and his mom are about to lose their house because she can’t pay the mortgage. Warriors Gate is about a normal, everyday teenage boy named Jack ( Uriah Shelton). Directed by Matthias Hoene and co-written by Luc Besson and Robert Kamen, it’s an epic fantasy adventure that skips from modern day to ancient China and back again. Warriors Gate (or Enter The Warriors Gate if you’re watching on Netflix) harkens back to these days of yore. There are a few exceptions, but there are hardly any of these kind of fun, live-action kid friendly movies anymore. I loved living vicariously through the kids in these movies, whether it was the Goonies on a quest to find the treasure of One-Eyed Willy, Bastian Bux falling into the world of The NeverEnding Story, or Thora Birch and Vincent Kartheiser, aka baby Pete Campbell, trying to rescue their father with the aide of an adorable polar bear cub in ‘ Alaska’ (anyone else remember that movie? Just me?) These movies had their heyday in the 80s, with classics like ET, Labyrinth, Karate Kid, Stand By Me, and Honey I Shrunk The Kids. It was a type of family film outside the realm of Disney or animated film, one that felt real and grounded even when fantastical things were going on.
When I was little, I loved “kids on a crazy adventure” movies.
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