The sound mixing is good at capturing the aches, pains and pummeling. The men keep taking lickings and their quips keep ticking. The movie effectively uses flashbacks to show how eager they were as pupils to defend the weak, be loyal and righteous. The story is a standard whodunit with little suspense, so all the energy is focused on the three pals gaining strength through their 30-year-old bond. Naturally, their childhood rival Carter (Matthew Page of “Enter the Dojo”), even though he’s running Sifu’s school, is still a jerk. Of course, the old guys will gain the respect of the punk kids they face. Like the three heroes, the movie takes awhile to find its rhythm. This movie is best at emphasizing those time-honored traditional themes: Discipline, Honor, Focus, Purpose. One of the actors in those series, Yuji Okumoto, has a small role in this 2020 film. The resurgence of “The Karate Kid” variations and the Netflix hit series “Cobra Kai” will no doubt boost the interest too. He is banking on the nostalgic appeal of this story to genre fans and those who grew up in the 1990s watching the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, along martial arts action movies from Jackie Chan, Jean- Claude Van Damme and Steven Seagal, Tran benefits from first-rate work by the fight choreographer Ken Quitugua in this low-budget labor of love. The childhood friends reunite to avenge him, as they juggle dead-end jobs, dad duties and old grudges.įirst-time director Quoc Bao Tran, who also wrote the screenplay, has assembled a trio of likable actors whose chemistry is palpable for this action comedy: Alain Uy as Danny, a divorced dad who works in insurance Ron Yuan as Hing, out-of-shape trash talker who used to work in hotel security and Mykel Shannon Jenkins as Jim, who has been estranged from Danny. Their master teacher, Sifu Cheung (Roger Yuan), is murdered, which springs them into action. Once known as the Kung Fu prodigies “The Three Tigers,” the trio of martial artists are now middle-aged men one kick away from a pulled muscle. Supreme Warrior (1994) : Killed when the player (Li Guoyuan) uses the magical mask to zap him causing him to explode.A crisp throwback to the ‘90s era of martial arts movies, “The Paper Tigers” is a warm-hearted exercise in reconnecting friendships and rekindling your purpose.CSI: Miami: Die by the Sword (2010) : Shot to death by David Caruso as a Suicide by Cop.Richard Armitage later observes his dead corpse. Spooks: Season 8, Episode 8 (2009) : Shot to death by an assassin while talking to Nicola Walker.John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) : Has an axe thrown into his head by Keanu Reeves.Venom (2018) : Throat slit by Michelle Lee using her arm, which had been transformed into a blade by the symbiote controlling her body.
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