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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Mti Home Video
Salesrank: 55964
Released: November 1, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Synopsis:
Based on an Asian mythical hero, FORBIDDEN WARRIOR follows the story of beautiful young Seki, who discovers that she is the only living person with the power to control an all-powerful book of spells – and she must learn how to use her gifts in order to save the world from bloodthirsty rivals who would steal it.
DVD Features:
Widescreen Format
Commentary with Director Jimmy Nickerson and Producers Glen Hartford & Daniel Toll
Behind the Scenes – Making of Forbidden Warrior
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Trailers
Optional Spanish Subtitles
Forbidden Warrior Reviews:
not even a "B" lister 
2009-12-02 - Ohmigawd it's awful. So awful it's NOT funny. Every cliche, every lame plot twist, every limp character you can imagine, all stuffed into a thin "plot" and some damn rotten acting. It's like someone pulled all the bottom-rung characters from a lot of the really bad "martial arts" movies, and stuffed them all in here. There were non-asians as the oriental wizards, buffoons, idiots and oversized dumb hunks as the sidekicks, a blind magician, super-nasties on the side of evil, and even a female non-asian pirate. Pirates. In Cathay. Which apparently was some tiny mountain valley, where the pirate was really a good guy. So he died. And warring brothers. Let's not forget them. One good, one evil. And the good one loved the heroine. So he died. Coulda saved a lot of time by taking out all the hokey stuff, but then, there'd be only about fifteen minutes left. Woulda been an improvement. Watch it if you want- be prepared to laugh (or groan). You've been warned.
Entertaining 
2009-11-15 - This movie could have been done much better, but I found it enjoyable and entertaining for the most part. I was very disappointed in the ending, apparently we are to create our own ending, or there is a tv series to complete it.
It does contain a few old style Chinese martial arts effects. The comedy was sometime endering and sometimes something only a child would enjoy.
If not for the violence this would be better suited for a childs story.
Three words: FLYING. MAGIC. HIPPIE.
2009-01-21 - Forbidden Warrior sounds interesting at first. Hot chick? Check! Mystical powers? Check! Martial arts? Check! It has all the right ingredients to be awesome ...
But it is so the opposite of awesome. It is, in fact, the anti-awesome.
The plot, what little there is, involves two brothers and a pirate on a quest to find Seki (Marie Matiko), the magical girl who can read the magical book that will unlock the Secrets of the Land. She is raised by a blind flying Anglo hippie who speaks in SLOW. PLODDING. SENTENCES, and spends much of her time in the wilderness, picking flowers and eating berries.
Into this idyllic lifestyle wanders an Asian pirate and his hot white chick companion (Musetta Vander, who seems to have no purpose other than to glare at people). The pirate instantly falls in love with Seki. What this plot has to do with anything, I have no idea.
The real story is about the two brothers, raised to be ruthless by their overbearing father. They're seen as kids fighting against each other, and then again decades later, only nobody has aged one bit except the two boys. Ah, movie magic!
Each brother has his own henchmen. The Good Brother has a group of misfit white guys: a fat guy who speaks gibberish named Jibberish, a Jerry Lewis imitation named Mouse, and a big guy named Tall Tall. Did I mention Tall Tall interprets everything Jibberish says? Are you laughing yet?
Fortunately the Bad Brother has some cooler bad guys, including Yang Sze (played by Al Leong, who has been in every American film featuring martial arts as every moustached Asian bad guy). Lots of time is spent establishing how bad the Bad Brother is and how Good the Good Brother is. SPOILER ALERT: These two are going to fight over the girl!
And then she will use the magic the flying white hippie taught her!
And there will be a big sword fight!
And then there will be very little actual martial arts!
And now that I think about it, there wasn't all that much magic either ...
In short, Forbidden Warrior lowers the bar for chop-sockey flicks down to its toenails, then trips over it. On the upside, it will make a hilarious drinking game.
the cover was good! 
2006-11-03 - it's beautifully shot.. the production design was great for the budget... but the film didn't hold my attention..
An Unfortunate Display of Opportunism
2006-08-14 - Anytime the urge rises to be entertained with an escapist film the top of the list becomes one of the Asian martial arts films, films of stunning beauty, breathtaking choreography, handsome actors, and enough legend to make the storyline fascinating, e.g. 'The House of Flying Daggers'. This pathetic film is packaged like those wonder movies and so deludes the public into thinking it is in an equal category. Not even close!
A child is born to a couple informed that their progeny will be a male warrior who has the secrets to read the codebook that contains the key to the power of the universe. The pregnant mother is stabbed by the evil adversaries but the baby lives, 'disappointingly' a girl! The girl Seki is transported via a leaf boat to a blind wise magician who cares for her and teaches her Taiji and Kung Fu, raising her to return to the world and discover life along with her gifts. A family who wants to maintain dominion over China sends two sons (one evil and the other kind) to capture the girl and steal the code to the sacred book. The evil son is accompanied by warriors: the kind son is accompanied by Caucasian Marx brothers. The rest of the story is too simple-minded to discuss.
There are so many errors of judgment in the making of this film, not the least of which is a nebulous and silly script, that disrupt what might have been an honest attempt for Hollywood to make a martial arts film. But the acting is poor, combining Asian actors with non-Asian actors makes both look ridiculous, the special effects are clumsy, and the mood of ancient China is completely destroyed by the computer generated graphics superimposed on the real location of Griffith Park in Los Angeles! The three stooges added to the good warrior's team are so silly that they pass funny into absurd. There is no ending to the movie: instead it feels like the producers just ran out of money. A must miss. Grady Harp, August 06
