The Dragon Chronicles - The Maidens (1994)

This movie was very confusing. Maybe it it because Viki doesn't have the best subtitles for this one – they are 100% but sometimes they make you feel like the subber should have used better words for the settings or like there's missing something. I'm very grateful for the person who translated and subbed the movie, but maybe it would be better for you to find it somewhere else to get a better understanding and experience from the movie than on Viki.

The story itself wasn't that bad but oh it was a big mess. The movie dumped a bunch of characters on you without any proper introduction and as it progressed it didn't get any better with that.

I can't remember much of the OST but I remember that some of the sound effects that they used for the fighting scenes sounded like the sound of blasters from Star Wars. 😂

I don't want to be negative so I will now tell you the positive things about the movie:

First: Lesbian representation. Nothing too explicit of course but for its age it's there and it's shown there. That was cute. Too bad that it was like 30 and less seconds of screen time.

Second: The comedy. The movie doesn't have a comedy tag in the genres but maybe it should. I wasn't expecting such funny scenes from it but they really made me laugh sometimes.

Third: Fighting scenes. The CGI is bad from a perspective of today but I can imagine that back in 1994 it must have been one of the better ones. And even without CGI, the kung-fu scenes itself are very great.

Overall 6/10. It definitely wasn't the best movie but it was memorable in some aspects.

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