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Fistful of Vengeance (2022)
Good addition to the Wu Assassin story
Kinda surprised by the haters here. I just watched the film and enjoyed it. In fact I liked it more than the TV series, maybe because there was more fighting and less of the magic stuff. My main gripe would be the actual fight choreography was better in the TV series.
Because I watched the TV series I was kinda invested in what was going to happen with Zan, so I was a little disappointed that the film didn't go that way. But once I was over that I just had fun watching it. I liked that Tommy was more involved with the action now too but I thought the main nemesis really needed to be good fighters to show off what Uwais can do. Anyway, all in all it was good entertainment!
Wu Assassins (2019)
Real martial art on a martial art show... FINALLY!!!
Okay... I'm a super kung-fu movie fan (seen every Shaw action film type fan), so this show feels like it was tailor-made for me! I was hyped when Iron Fist came out, but I was so pissed and disappointed after watching it. Well, Wu Assassins delivers everything that Iron Fist should have! I read some of the comments here and can see that some viewers don't get it, which is fine. Go watch the shows that's right for you, cause I don't want Netflix to change anything in this. Acting... well they got a great actor for Iron Fist... how'd that work out?! LOL Give me Iko Uwais over Meryl Streep any day. And what about JuJu Chan?! Damn I'll be watching out for her. If there's anything I can change it'll be getting Mark Dacascos to actually fight his own fight, and just drop the CGI all together.
Wushu (2008)
This is Entertainment!
There's been a lot of hype about this film, and as a fan of kung fu films I've been looking forward to seeing it. The other thing that made me interested is the director, Antony Szeto, cause I saw his first film Dragon Blade in the theaters. Dragon Blade was a kid's computer animated film but the martial arts action in it is far more superior to the jumping around camera shots used for the fights in Kung Fu Panda. And Dragon Blade had a well thought out story to it, unlike the run of the mill production-line senseless stories that have been coming out of Hong Kong over the last ten/fifteen years. In Wushu, the director again gives us something unexpected, and again a well thought out story. As a family film it has something for everyone and I enjoyed myself throughout it. The story of the kids growing up in a poor single parent family is both touching and current, and I thought the way wushu as a sport was presented was very smart. Sammo Hung's performance as the father and teacher was surprisingly good... he should have got an award for it! Though the fight scenes in it don't number enough to satisfy the die hard action over all else fans, the main fight scene where Sammo comes up against the main bad guy is fantastic edge of the seat stuff. All in all, I laughed at the fun parts, was touched by the father-son relationship, was excited by the action, and amazed by the skills. This film was all out good entertainment... and in the end isn't that what we all pay to watch a film for?
Duo biao (2008)
Fights only and edit out the rest please
I saw this film just after seeing _Wushu(2008)_(qv), which I loved, and was really disappointed by Champions. Tsui Siu Ming is a very established director who has made some notable kung fu films in the past. I did like a couple of the fight scenes in this film, but in the end it was excruciating to sit through the lame story and oh so very bad acting. It's obvious that a lot of money went into this film, what with the special effects, but it was very badly executed. The story and characters are predictable, silly, and just plain embarrassing. Try to get a 15 minute edited version of this film
one where there are only fight scenes and that's it. You'll enjoy it a lot more.
Lung do kei yuen (2005)
Roller coaster ride with a long climb
At first I thought, "what did I get myself into?". Twenty minutes into the movie and I started looking at my watch and wishing that I wasn't here. I didn't come all the way to Hong Kong to watch a crap Kungfu movie! Then all of a sudden
Ka-POW! Talk about being worth the wait. DragonBlade is a roller coaster ride with a long way up in the beginning. And as we all know, the further up that roller coaster goes... the bigger and more exciting that ride ends up. I just can't imagine anyone getting the total impact of the fights without watching it on the big screen
the fights are so in your face that it absolutely pulls you in. So worth seeing.
Shi mian mai fu (2004)
Kick butt kung-fu action with a lot of class
If you want to be "wow"ed by good old kung-fu moves, this is the one you must watch. It is a great looking film and hats off to Siu-Tung Ching, the martial arts choreographer. I watched a load of films at Cannes 2004, and this was the only one where the audience broke out in applause during the film, twice. The opening of the film is a bit shaky with poor acting from both male leads, but they soon warm up to their roles and one becomes totally absorbed into the movie. This is until the ending which is, true to its genre, a little silly. But these are small hick-ups for a film which is simply spectacular to witness. Oh, and the CG effects are much better than Hero (which was done by the same makers of this film). To all you macho kung-fu fanatics out there who want to impress your girl friends with your cultured knowledge in foreign films, this is the one to take them to. You'll both be amazed.
Thru the Moebius Strip (2005)
Tell someone you hate to watch this film!
With names like Mark Hamill of Star Wars and Michael Dorn of Star Trek, and the unique images of the French cartoonist, Moebius, I was really looking forward to seeing this animation. But alas, it was my one greatest disappointment during my film hopping at Cannes 2004. Once you can get past the over the top acting, and line deliveries that made ones skin crawl, there was still the pathetic comedy moments that in itself was comical to witness how really really really badly it was executed. For budding animators/film makers, this is one to study as an academic would study Ed Wood films from the 50s. I'll give credit to the sets, which were quite spectacular in some instances - I usually don't notice these sort of things in movies, but seeing how bored I was I guess my eyes wondered to the least displeasing thing, the background. If you hate someone enough, tell them to watch this one. Or, perfect as a drive-in movie with a hot date!