VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Executscan Expected more

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Nemesis42 Seemed like a kids film to me, so don't be too harsh on it. Bad things: some very artificial ADR, average casting, odd blend of language accents, lame bad guy jokes, average acting from the lead, which could have something to do will lazy actor direction. Great things: the concept, the music, the costumes and there would have been a good script in there somewhere.Kids will love it. Not too much violence and very little blood seen. Has a gorgeous young lady that boys will want to fall in love with. Nice romantic escapism.

bbshockwave What can I say... this thing was partially written by Luc Besson, but you would never guess it from the ridiculously incompetent mess the plot is. We have seen a hundred similar movies already where the protagonist is whisked away from our world to a fantasy/sci-fi setting so they can become the prophesied hero and save the day. Enter the Warrior's Gate does this in a generic fantasy-land vaguely based on ancient China... vaguely, because it never uses the interesting mythology associated with it.Our main character is Jack (Uriah Shelton), who is making a God of War/Mortal Kombat blend fighting game with superb graphics in his free time at home, while helping out his single mother by temping at a grocery store. Because sure, that's how high graphic games are made, by one teenager, not by a huge team of programmers and designers and testers... Jack hangs out with his nerdy friends while being the best player in his own game (duh) as the Black Knight. However, his skill attracts the attention of a wizard in a distant dimension, who thinks he is the cliche Chosen One to kill the villain and save the princess. So after getting an ancient pot from his boss, one day Jack awakens with a sword pointed at his throat, courtesy of Zhoo (Mark Chao), the princess' no-nonsense martial artist bodyguard (because that's the way to recruit someone whose help you need). The super stereotypical Princess Su Lin (Ni Ni) details the plot - evil barbarian warlord Arun (Dave Bautista) wants to conquer her lands and marry her, and she asks the fabled Black Knight for help. The movie tries to portray Su Lin as a badass warrior princess while she gets shown our world and goes through the cliche antics you see in every such movie (like eating ice cream and shopping in a mall), but it really doesn't work since she is soon kidnapped and spends the rest of the movie like Princess Peach in a Mario game. Jack reluctantly follow Zhoo to the other dimension through the pot to save the Princess. The movie tries to be funny and Zhoo's plan is so ridiculously direct ("Fight our way in, kill the villain, save the princess, fight our way out") it could be a parody of cliche video game plots, but sadly they take it dead seriously. The rest of the movie's running time is spent with intercut scenes without any transition of:-Zhoo and Jack fighting various enemies at random while getting on each other's nerves due to their differences-Arun trying and failing to woo the princess he is forcing to marry her, and engaging in unfunny repeated jokes with his main henchman about executing people who bring him bad news.A useless wizard also shows up here and there to speed up the plot and teleports out whenever he could actually help our "heroes". I put that in parenthesis, because... they aren't really heroic. One example, they try to cross a bridge which is blocked by a stereotypical witch brewing something in a cauldron. She refuses to move and points out they need to respect their elders. Their answer? They repeatedly prod and push her until they straight up attack her and Jack sets her ablaze and kills her. I played plenty of RPGs to know that was a catastrophically failed random encounter... After encountering man-eating nymphs (WTF?) who turn into tree-creature dryads, and two short scenes of the heroes bonding - with Zhoo teaching Jack martial arts by showing him ONE move to always open hits with outstretching his arms, and Jack teaching Zhoo to swim - they finally get to the enemy camps... And Zhoo's plan to get in is to surrender. They are about to be executed, escape, get recaptured and then Deus Ex Machina wizard guy saves them, with Jack suddenly being able to do kung fu moves on wireworks like in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon... without any practice. Jack and Su Lin get catapulted (you read right) to a bamboo forest and Jack fights and super easily kills Arun there... aaaaand CUT, we go to a scene of Su Lin being crowned. Wait, you mean the giant barbarian army just shrugged and went home after their leader was killed? Seriously? You'd think the movie was over, but nope, 10 more minutes of pointless subplots are resolved - Jack kisses the Princess he has known for like half a day, gets chased by the royal guard because this is punishable by death, despite him just saving the kingdom, and then Zhoo relents and lets him go because he learned during the movie not to be uptight with rules. Jack returns to Earth, finishes his home-made game one afternoon (seriously), gets it published and becomes rich, and one day finds Su Lin in earth clothes in his room who decided to spend some time there and hang out with him. The End.The movie is a mess, the main plot is threadbare but the movie finds every excuse to deviate from it with pointless, never followed up subplots, like the witch, or the quickly abandoned training scene. How about this as an example - in the final battle Jack uses the wizard's magic powder on the main henchman, only to have it grow him to ogre size. Aaaand... they have a brief battle and Jack escapes. They never face the guy again and it is never resolved. The humor is atrociously bad, and forced. The main characters are cliche and boring. The CGI is OK sometimes (like with the dryad-like nymphs) and terrible in other cases (like the ogre-sized henchman). The fight scenes are well choreographed, but repetitive - I often spotted Jack fighting the same guy again and again in the crowd whom he already defeated 5 times. Overall, don't bother watching this, it is not even enjoyably bad, just bad. There were way better "fantasy setting people cross over with current day Earth" movies made in the eighties and nineties, even Masters of the Universe or Beastmaster 2 was better.

zzk2001 This is maybe the worst movie of 2016... wait this was made in 2016? It looks like a 90s Nickelodeon straight to DVD movie with CGI that was made from 3D Movie Maker program.The acting is not to bad if this was 1995. (sadly it's 2016 made) The over all plot is good and would make for a nice story. (if done correctly)sadly it wasn't. We see our hero ask for help in fighting as he has zero skills to speak of. So the skilled worrier teaches him... 1 thing. Only 1 simple move (hold hands out). Then somehow magically he becomes a super fighting ninja that's taking down 50 to 60 guys with no problem. Top that off with what looks like half the movie cut out (very bad editing) They free the princess and use a catapult to get away, The next scene you see the princess locked up and the main bad guy walking into frame to attack our hero...WTF just happened? The main bad guy should be miles away from them and where the heck did the wizard and warrior go? Anyways... He saves the day and goes back home all to some how make his own video game in 1 night..1...NIGHT! based off his "adventure" to only sell the game for $25,000 to save their house from getting taken away. Even by 1990s standers this was a bad movie. Don't waste your time.

A_Different_Drummer The word on the street was that this was a riff on one of my all-time favorite films, Forbidden Kingdom 2008, so I could not resist checking it out.(Word to the wise, if you have not already seen FK, and you like MMA and/or Wushu and/or Fantasy and/or Adventure, check it out. FK has humble beginnings, features two of the greatest cinematic martial artists of all time - Jackie Chan and Jet Li -- a killer script, great scenery, and solid performances. Some reviewers, including this one, think it is one of the best of its kind ever done.) Let's start with what Warriors Gate was intended to be, and work from that.The production team clearly thought they would "improve" on FK by adding more "teen humor." Presumably they also felt this would more than compensate for the film's considerably lighter "feel" and the awkward void formed by not having ANY famous film martial artists at all.Also, Forbidden Kingdom had a certain edge of malice and unpredictability in the script which, oddly, only increased its impact and its fan base. This film lacks those features as well and, on its best day in its best suit, comes across more as "Forbidden Kingdom Lite," or perhaps even a Disney knockoff of the original.Which is not to say it is not worth a watch. A lot of effort was put into the humor aspect (as explained above) and this does keep things moving along.(For example -- if you are film buff, you will remember fondly the famous tag line from Airplane 1980 - "Don't call me Shirley" which became a sort of iconic inside joke for years afterwards. This script contains a number of attempts to mimic that sort of dialog, my favorite being -- "KILL HIM! -- slashing noise -- "NO, NOT HIM. HIM.") Bottom Line: One hour and 45 minutes of reasonable entertainment. However, it suffers from the "curse" common to all knock-offs. Unless you see the original, you will never know what you are missing.