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Dragonball Evolution is a big disappointment for the fans of the anime series.  Just like any adaptations to the big screen I didn’t expect Dragonball to be an exact replica of the anime but the characters and even the plot of the movie are too pathetic for my taste.

Dragonball Evolution featured characters from the anime, such as Goku (Justin Chatwin), Master Roshi (Chow Yun Fat), Bulma (Emmy Rossum), Chi Chi (Jamie Chung), Piccolo (James Marsters), Yamcha (Joon Park) and Gohan (Randall Duk Kim). They sport the names but they are out of character.

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It is 1930 and China’s in the middle of a civil war and a Japanese invasion. This is the period wherein Children of Huang Shi takes place. Amongst the war are the orphaned kids who must endure being terrorized and alone.

Then George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) came. He came to Nanking to expose the brutality of the Japanese. He was shocked with what he saw. After a chain of events, he found himself in an orphanage. The children are all victims of the war. We see how Hogg is transferred from an unsympathetic reporter into a compassionate teacher.

Then the time comes when the Japanese invaders are getting near the orphanage. Hogg had no choice but to travel around 600 to 700 miles in the middle of the winter with the 60 children in tow. Along the way he had help from a nurse Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell), military man Chen (Chow Yun Fat), and a opium dealer Mrs. Wang (Michelle Yeoh).

I like Chow Yun Fat and Michelle Yeoh’s performance in Children of Huang Shi. When I learned that the two are in this movie, I was expecting another Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Although I was disappointed that it was not an action movie, I still enjoyed their performance. But I was also disappointed that the two didn’t have any scene together.

Radha Mitchell played the role of the emotionally drained nurse who has seen what the war has done. Then we learn how she coped with all the atrocities she has faced.

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