‘The Paper Tigers’ Don’t Fold on the Big Screen

I just found out about The Paper Tigers about two days before the movie came out. When I told my friends about it they were, already aware. “Yeah, man that movie been in the works for a good while.” Well shit, lemme apologize for being late first of all. Then I got on my Lois Lane investigative reporting and saw how The Paper Tigers was a movie ten years in the making. What? We doing this for the indie darlings? You damn right we are. This movie was directed and written by Tran Quoc Bao (Mr. Tran if you nasty), and you can tell this is a labor of love as Hollywood was interested in this but wanted the main characters to be white. Mr. Tran wasn’t bout that shit so The Paper Tigers became a DIY (do it your (an implied damn) self-project. Lemme tell you that I’m very glad that that’s the route taken. What got me interested was the sight of a Gung Fu (proper pronunciation and spelling of westernized word “Kung Fu”) movie where the main cast is ethnic. The majority of this film is Asian, and it involves martial arts, I’m in. It’s got a comedic element too? I’m even more in. Oh shit, there’s a Black dude in the main cast too? Well, I’m six feet underground at this point. Hollywood gonna learn the hard way that main characters being ethnic doesn’t hinder, it can only help. Let’s get into it. The Paper Tigers Don’t Crumble

I’m fucking with this movie man. We open up with an old man fighting a shadowy figure then slowly succumbing to his injuries. The audience is then taken back …