In 1995, Wang Jing was inspired by the Hollywood hit action film "Die Hard" series, and then injected spoofs, nonsense and Hong Kong-style action film elements to make the movie "Squirrel Dragon", although the film's box office performance at that time was not good, only ranked 17th in the box office list of the same year, but the box office also exceeded more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, and to this day it is also regarded as a classic by many fans.
Coincidentally, in the same year, the famous Hong Kong action director Yuan Heping also made a film that borrowed and imitated "Tiger Dragon", but its box office was far from "Rat And Dragon", only 1.34 million Hong Kong dollars, it was "Red Wolf" starring He Jiajin and Zhong Liti, also known as "Tiger Dragon" and "Demon God Dragon".
The plot of the film is relatively simple, telling a group of robbers led by Zou Zhaolong and Lu Shaoling in order to seize the nuclear elements on the "Moby Dick" cruise ship, so they pretended to be the co-captain, crew and tourists to loot the cruise ship on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, the security guard He Jiajin found the abnormality, but fell into the misunderstanding of the dilemma, and finally he and the waiter Zhong Liti together launched a plot to destroy the robbers and save the remaining hostages.
Just look at the title, you know that this film is an imitation of "Tiger And Dragon", and the robbery ship robbery, lone hero against the bandit setting is also "copied foot" the original work, if Wang Jing's "Rat Dragon Wei" and Jet Li's kung fu, Jacky Cheung funny imitation of Jackie Chan as a point of view, then the overall plot of this "Tiger Dragon" is a simple copy of the logo elements of "Tiger Dragon" a process and superficial, it is not easy to make a memory point that makes the audience too impressed, Yuan Heping's fashion action films have always focused on action rather than story, and it is not surprising that the film is handled like this.
Although the male number one He Jiajin is not a martial arts actor, because he likes sports since he was a child, coupled with his high ability to understand martial arts, he has enough homework in the play part of the film to exceed people's expectations. However, it is professional martial arts actors such as Zou Zhaolong and Cao Rong who are opposed to the play, so the limelight of He Jiajin was once suppressed, such as Cao Rong and He Jiajin fighting, the former's wonderful kicks are obviously more eye-catching, and the final part is almost supported by Zou Zhaolong's superb leg skills and "arrogant" acting skills.
The film's box office performance is dismal, presumably mainly related to the choice of male number one, although He Jiajin at that time has been popular across the taiwan straits and three places with the role of Zhan Zhao in the drama "Bao Qingtian", but the appeal in the film is still quite limited, such as the "Explosion Order" starring him in the same year, "True Feelings" are not sold, and it is impossible to compete with Jackie Chan and Jet Li. In addition, although the female number one invited Zhong Liti, who has cooperated with Xingye and Jet Li in "The King of Destruction" and "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai", this is obviously useless for a male-dominated action movie.
The most amazing thing in the film is actually Lu Shaoling, who plays the female villain, although she was not selected as a Hong Kong sister, but the starting point of her debut is very high, and in the 1980s and 1990s, she began to appear in "Angel Action", "Five Blessings Star", "Demon Domain Flying Dragon", "Huang Feihong's Dragon City Fighter" and other movies, and has cooperated with many big stars.
However, because she is in the era has Yang Ziqiong, Li Saifeng, Yang Lijing, Hu Hui and other girls glittering, so Lu Shaoling is not red, in fact, her appearance is not bad, "Tiger And Vey Dragon" in which she seduced the captain a scene full of style, but unfortunately after filming this film, she began to reduce production until the end of the film, and there was no news after that.
Although the story of this film is weak, the play part is escorted by Yuan Heping, not completely unbearable, and small partners who like old Hong Kong films can watch it.