Director: Aaron Schoenke, Sean Schoenke
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Costumed Superhero
Plot:
Three years after hiding his White Dragon alias, a powerful warrior was defeated in a colossal battle, and the crystal he used to become the White Dragon was broken into two pieces. As a result, he was blamed for the collateral damage that ensued, and his identity was outed, making him a fugitive and a hunted man. He partners with people from the past who have a history and forms a new team to reclaim his powers and clear his name, but as he seeks to reunite with his secret family, a mysterious villain known as Dragon Prime rises with a relentless vendetta to see the White Dragon fall for good. Once reunited, he and his team must work together to stop the villain, hoping to clear his name and be reunited with his family.
Review:
This was an enjoyable enough, if generally flawed, genre effort. Most of the positive points to be had here are reliant on the rather fun action scenes presented here, which manage to run the gamut from fantasy-infused superhero action to more traditional action setpieces. This makes the film rather fun, moving from the series of confrontations here involving the squad of police officers hunting him down for what happened earlier, leading to plenty of fun moments where his skillset and martial arts prowess come into play while also focusing on gunplay or shootouts to enhance things. The finale, when everything turns into more mystical spectacle involving the super-powered battle suits with enhanced powers being utilized in a series of highly exciting sequences where they fight each other with these powers in a way that offers more spectacle than expected in this kind of setting.
However, everything other than that is a bit difficult to figure out, as the story itself is a disappointment with some incredibly haphazard parts that don’t get spelled out all that well. The motivation for the villain, trying to seek revenge for what happened to his wife and unborn child years ago in combat with the hero, serves well enough to be a fantastic motivator for the villain to start everything, but the whole point of everyone thinking the hero is the cause of the destruction is horribly misguided when it is plainly clear that he was all about saving them. It is quite difficult to believe that he would’ve been set up for the bad guy role in the whole scenario, and with the sluggish tempo regarding the whole gathering of the troops setup that the middle section devolves into as he tries to regain his family following these events, creating some underwhelming factors to hold it down.
Overview: ***/5
An overall enjoyable homage even with some flaws, there’s a lot to like here in terms of being a standalone film, even though much of what takes place here will appeal more to fans of the content than anything. Viewers who are curious about it or who are fans of the approach here or nostalgic for the content being homaged will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution.
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