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Twin Daggers DVD Review
Twin Daggers DVD Credits:
Twin Daggers Directed by:
Kuen-Hou Chen
Twin Daggers Written by:
Allen Shan
Twin Daggers Cast:
Rhett Giles, Coco Su, Veronica Bero
Twin Daggers Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
Twin Daggers DVD Release Date:
21st July 2008
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Twin Daggers Synopsis:

A team of assassins is hired to kill a twin sister in a revenge scheme.

Twin Daggers DVD Review:

Set in the 1930s, a famous Los Angeles based hitman named Scholar (Rhett Giles, Pirates of Treasure Island, The Apocalypse) and his crew of fellow assassin miscreants, are hired to help avenge the death of the exotic and beautiful Kay (Coco Su). She hires the gang in a sort of winner takes all assassination game where the first person to kill her twin sister Sue will received one hundred thousand dollars.

Things appear just as Kay has described when Scholar arrives in Shanghai to find that Sue has taken over the family fortunes and lifestyle. Unexpected however, is his beginning to fall in love with his mark, Sue. He begins to struggle with his feelings torn between his lifestyle and commitment and his new feelings. In a bizarre twist of fate, Scholar decides to protect his intended mark from the rest his fellow assassins.

Now he must walk a fine line as he begins to pit the assassins against each other, forming alliances to coerce his fellow killers to strike out at one another. Now, Scholar must stop this band of efficient killers in order to save the woman that he has developed feelings for.

Twin Daggers is a enigmatic film. The choreography of the fight sequences are reminiscent of other successful martial arts films like House of Flying Daggers and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, employing the fantastical flying while fighting and the sort of weapon point of view. Unlike those films, however, Twin Daggers falls significantly short.

Twin Daggers is a disappointment. The effects are low caliber at best while the editing is simply awful. The film is rife with jump and mismatched cuts. It also employs a frequent use of ripple wipes. The film frequently jumps back in time in a flash back, but the transition is so muddied that it is confusing and ultimately renders the film almost incomprehensible.

The film is only further made difficult to watch due to its enormous number of anachronisms, including the characters wearing track suits, a nylon winter coat and women wearing slacks and combat boots.

The plot line is poor as well, with the constant and incoherent flash backs and deliberate but failed misdirection in hopes to shock and throw off the viewer. Lastly, and perhaps most annoyingly, the film ends with an over the top, tip of the hat reveal that rivals the farewell scene from The Wizard of Oz.

Despite all of its shortcomings, Rhett Giles creates an intriguing character as the Scholar and it seems almost a pity that it is lost in this film.

The DVD release of Twin Daggers includes the film, presented in widescreen and that features a 5.1 stereo surround soundtrack. The DVD also features a trailer gallery of other films from Lionsgate.

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Twin Daggers DVD review written by: Andrew Mattson

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