Film Review – Enter The Warriors Gate

The screenwriting team of Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen returns with “Enter The Warriors Gate,” which at first seems like a return to form for the duo, who’ve previously pulled off cartoonish entertainment with projects like “The Transporter,” “Kiss of the Dragon,” and “The Fifth Element.” Cruelly, their sense of escapism has been tainted in recent years (including “Taken 2” and “Taken 3”), and while “Enter The Warriors Gate” presents a premise that easily welcomes big action and broad personalities, Kamen and Besson can’t get the story out of first gear. Lumbering and unfunny, the feature is aimed at 10 year olds and perhaps nobody else, showing significant signs of stress whenever it attempts to subvert predictability, while its video game theme is bizarrely ignored in favor of Euro cinema-style shenanigans. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com