The Crossroad Of Rock 

As the three young children (also known as The Three Tigers) trained by Sifu Cheung (Roger Yuan) reach their adulthood, they become the best kung fu fighters in the States. Nevertheless, when they are in their 40s, they wish they had the strength and power from twenty years ago. The Paper Tigers, Quoc Bao Tran's uninhibited feature debut, focuses on The Three Tigers and the challenges of aging. They don’t talk to each other anymore, they are in bad shape, and they have real-life problems: Danny (Alain Uy) is a divorced father with a high demanding job, who argues with his ex-wife for their child’s custody; Hing (Ron Yuan) is really out of shape and has an injured knee, and Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins) is now a jiu-jitsu fighter in search for a sense of purpose. Sifu Cheung’s death alters everything because it will reunite the friends to investigate what really happened to their master. One of Bao Tran’s virtues is having the ability to laugh at kung fu without being disrespectful to it. All the martial arts’ traditional features are mocked but at the same time it exists a little bit of spirituality in every action performed by the characters. Somehow, this atmosphere reminds me of Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003), where the Knoxville director presents Uma Thurman as an extremely badass, comic superheroine from the 80’s look-alike, whose witty dialogues make the film a crack-up on several occasions. Additionally, the film's ambiance evokes other martial arts action-comedy films, such as