| Fist of the Dragon | |
| Director: | Antony Szeto |
| Producer: | Roger Corman |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Fist of the Dragon is a 2015 American-Chinese film directed by Antony Szeto for producer Roger Corman starring Josh Thomson.
The film was shot in China and was a remake of Moving Target starring Don Wilson. “It was a lot of fun with a lot of great fight scenes,” said Thomson. “The choreography is really good in this movie. It was a good time. It’s something that I can now cross off my bucket list. I did it, it was fun, but I’m a fighter."[1] The same team later made Death Mist.[2]
Filming took over five weeks. Szeto said Corman offered him the project off the back of Palace of the Damned. The director said he "decided clearly that the main selling point of the film was action, and all else just had to be good enough to hold the audience from one action sequence to the next. This meant that only the bare basics was spent on wardrobe, sets, special effects and visual effects. On top of that, to keep things in complete control, everything was shot at the studio. Once this was done, we didn't make any compromises with what we could squeeze out from the action. In the end, we did cut out and/or simplify a lot of the drama. But action, we gave it all we could (given the money we had)."[3]
The Action Elite said "this movie has in its favour is action; there’s tons of it and it never lets up until the end. The fights are well done and there are some rather cool moves which I hadn’t seen before. I also have to commend any film which has so many quality bad guy deaths. People are impaled on glass, get their limbs snapped, stabbed, shot and more so it must have a bodycount in the double digits."[4]