I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.
... View MoreThis is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
... View MoreIt’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
... View MoreI enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
... View MoreSouth Korean martial arts movies from the 1970s and 1980s are for the most part a breed of their own though they try not to be. They were made to make money, of course, and the easy way was to copy what was going on in Hong Kong and Taiwan. A successful South Korean movie would be indistinguishable from a contemporary Hong Kong or Taiwan film.Ninjas, of course, are nowhere to be found. This was a marketing technique to rent VHS films. Key words such as ninja and shaolin were put in the title to grab the eye of the American renter. The movie starts with the father and mother killed by the evil invaders. The children (I swore they were two girls) start to train in martial arts for revenge. They grow up to be boys somehow. The body of the movie is expository dialog scenes repeating the same information about the manual they want followed by fight scenes. The fights are at best passable for movie quality.My copy is a digital file made from the VHS. There is no pan and scan and it is dubbed in English. I do not recognize any of the voices and at times it sounds like just one man talking to himself. At least the voices were not annoying as voices alone have ruined some otherwise good movies.This movie is for hard core fans of the genre only. I watched it once to write a review and I doubt I will ever watch it again.
... View MoreI really can not agree with any of the others, who has commented this film. It is not a good movie, I'd rather say it is really bad. The editing is confusing. The acting is poor and the filming may be the worst I have ever witnessed. Except from that, It got some OK fight scenes, with out doing much impression. This may be one of the worst movies I have ever seen, if we look at the technical aspect of it. But it is really funny, because it is so bad. I will say it is worth a watch, if you are after a badly dubbed kung fu movie, with bad acting and terrible filming, that really makes you laugh. It was totally worth the 3£ I payed for it...(sorry my bad spelling and grammar)
... View MoreI'm surprised not many have seen this film as it's actually not that bad. The story is about a man who trains in the Leopard Fist style of kung fu so he can take his revenge on the Japanese invaders who killed his family when he was a boy.The director here is renowned for chopping films up into intelligible little bits and pieces, but this film runs smoothly for the most part with only a few hang-ups. Watch out for the man who fights for about a minute and is then replaced by someone else. Also good fun is the leaves scene.The story isn't as good as say, Blood of Dragon Peril, and the acting isn't that great either, but there are plenty of cool fight scenes and some great music to make this well worth a watch, but not a classic.
... View MoreThis one should have remained in obscurity, and indeed for most people it hopefully will, just because of its badness. Unfortunately this is not "so bad that it's actually funny", this is more like so bad it actually hurts.Avoid at all cost...
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