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hyped garbage

Good concept, poorly executed.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Well, the cast looks really good, in a tanning-bed, dipped-in-plastic way, and most of the fight scenes are at least energetic and creative (most of the fighters are in splendid shape, limber, flexible and extremely well toned and they can kick head high effortlessly). But the plot makes very little sense,(the final "brother against brother" scene is offensively stupid - since when are high school kids allowed to fight full contact in a sport karate tournament with killing techniques?), most of the dialog seems to have been written by someone who learned to speak English by watching soap operas and all the "Karate Kid" movies, and there is some pretty aggressive non-acting going on whenever people aren't punching and kicking each other. There are a couple scenes where the two older male leads ("David" and his brother the gang leader) are talking to each other and they obviously have no idea what to do with their hands.The young Korean guy from "The Goonies" and "Indiana Jones" has a prominent part in this, and in spite of some terrible lines of dialog, he still comes across as a likable young man, but he (and his good looking "older brother") are pretty much wasted in this movie. Hell, Dakota Fanning and Halley Osment couldn't make most of these scenes work. So even if you live for kick boxing movies, this one might have too much kick-boxing for you, and any scene that doesn't involve kick-boxing involves scenery-chewing and badly delivered lines. Still, I got this DVD for $1 at Wal-Mart, and it's not the worst such reissue from Digiview Productions I've seen. Worth seeing once if you want to see absolutely everything Jerry Trimble or Bolo Yeung has ever appeared in...I guess.

This film is pure genius. What more could you possibly say about a movie that offers not only Bolo Yeung in drag, but also a break dancing fight sequence and martial arts fighting dwarfs? "Breathing Fire" is possibly the funniest martial arts film of all time, I really can not recommend it highly enough.The film's storyline is largely irrelevant but goes something like this: Annie comes to David for help when her parents are murdered. David then takes Annie to stay with his brother and his two sons, Charlie and Tony. When David suffers an injury, he instructs Charlie and Tony in his unique martial arts style so that they can protect Annie from her parents' murderers.The plot truly is thinner than Nicole Ritchie, but this only adds to the enjoyment. By far the most entertaining aspect of the film is the padding between the set pieces. Some of my favourite moments include a Karate Kid inspired training montage, complete with bowling balls and suspended watermelons. I also loved the ridiculous flashback to Vietnam (in which the main characters look exactly the same as they do 15 or so years later!) and I almost wet myself when Mickey started to break dance - while painting a wall.Bolo Yeung fans can not afford to miss the opportunity to see their hero kick ass while robbing a bank - in drag. Unfortunately for Bolo, he doesn't have a huge role and has to suffer the indignity of being beaten up by the 100 pound kid from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Nevertheless, the chance to see Bolo wearing a floral dress more than compensates. The fight scenes that don't include Bolo are also memorable. Mickey, the break dancer, positively steals the show by demonstrating his dancing martial arts skills in rhinestone covered leather (no less). The fight involving the kick ass dwarfs is also one of the more memorable that I've seen in a long time.The acting is appalling to the extent that it defies belief and the dialogue makes Showgirls look like All About Eve. And yet, I can't think of a better way to waste 75 minutes of your time than watching this marvellous piece of crap. Highly recommended!

Breathing fire is one of those films most people will write off as a bad kung-fu movie on first viewing. But after you've watched it a few times you too will see the light and never watch 'bad movies' in the same way again. The plot is ridiculous and the acting is at best cheesy, but that is what makes the film so good. There are countless goofs,pointless scenes and plot holes but spotting them is half the fun. The martial arts aren't all that great, but there are some memorable moves such as the 'bowling ball'. You also get to see the two lead characters on the receiving end of a kick in by two midgets which is pretty funny. All in all next time you're rifling through the second hand videos and this catches your eye don't hesitate to purchase this fantastic film, I guarantee it will give you, and your friends hours of fun.

This is supposed to be a martial arts movie,but the story and fighting scenes are so bad that it just gets boring. I picked this movie up for one reason,because Bolo Yeung was in it,but it turned out that he didnt have any real fighting scenes in it,so all i can say is that this is a piece of crap. Extremely bad story and acting and the fight scenes is not more than a Karate kid look a like.