Very disappointing...

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Another year, another Jimmy Wang Yu film in which the kung fu star plays a one-armed fighter touring the countryside and looking for revenge against villains unknown. ONE ARMED SWORDSMAN AGAINST NINE KILLERS is a kind of does-what-it-says-on-the-tin type film, a series of straightforward fight set-pieces in which Wang Yu battles against various assassins and fighters who get tougher and tougher as the running time progresses.The film was made in Taiwan on the cheap, but makes good use of arresting locations like hillsides, old caverns and temples, and cliff tops in or on which to set the action. The fight scenes are a little slow but staged well in the usual Wang Yu style, not much complexity in them but they prove entertaining nonetheless. Lo Lieh has a welcome one-scene role as a villain but is killed far too quickly, unfortunately. There's a little blood spray and gore spread here and here and in the end this is reasonably entertaining viewing.

You've gotta hand it to Wang Yu: he starred in some of the most ENTERTAINING martial arts movies ever made- very often, with one arm literally tied behind his back. ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN VS. 9 KILLERS is a quintessential Wanger. As noted everywhere this one's been reviewed, this one has absolutely nothing to do with any of Yu's One-Armed Boxer movies, nor any of his One-Armed Swordsman movies. As also noted, Yu has more than a few tricks up his sleeve in this one. One of the funnier moments comes when he confronts a man whose falsetto suggests he may just be a tad light in the loafers- only he's not, because he's... a hermaphrodite! S/He proves no match for Wang Yu, of course. Another opponent, Mr. Lu, boasts a most impressive weapon (...): a six-foot long, twelve-inch wide broadsword... "The size of your sword doesn't matter," Yu deadpans. Before long, Lu is impaled on his own sword... ("I didn't come here to toot my own horn," Yu should've said: "My neck isn't long enough...") But that's not all: when Yu is betrayed by "9 Finger Chu," Yu, wounded, says: "But you have ten fingers..." "That's right," counters Chu: "But I've only got 9 TOES..." It's also revealed that the one-armed swordsman has two arms, and he never actually uses a sword in the movie. In fact, when he's asked at one point if he's a swordsman, he says no... ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN VS. 9 KILLERS has all the earmarks of a Wang Yu movie and, as such, deserves a look.

I must admit that I have seen the bad cut version of this movie. As soon as a fight begins and the enemies face each other, there is a cut and in the next seen, a dead man lies on the ground and the main actor continues its strange journey. I don't know who has cut this movie to pieces but that's probably the worst job I have ever seen as it makes this movie completely senseless in a ridiculous way and the little twists in the end which allow me to give at least some plus points for the final voting are really hard to observe and understand.But I will try to ignore those cut down fight scenes and analyze this movie from another point of view and might realize that it doesn't get better in any way. The dialogues are simplistic and ridiculously humorist by accident. The acting is more wooden than in an old martial arts video game. The direction and filming is mediocre, the chosen settings are cheesy and ordinary, the music doesn't quite fit to the atmosphere. The movie represents some strange and provoking opinions: people joke about cripples, prostitutes, homosexuals, old people and women in general. Those racist, sexist and simply dumb prejudices are completely unnecessary and keep me away from getting an approach to any of the characters performed by the already quite wooden actors and actresses.But the most important thing in such a movie are the fighting scenes after all and those that haven't been cut are simply terrible. the one armed fighter has no particular skills at all and not even a glimpse of elegance. His fights are as wooden, limited and crippled as the whole character and movie itself. You can see that the main character's enemies lose their battles in the most stupid ways and the nine guards and seemingly best fighters are nothing but a bad joke. One guy is fighting with a sword of two meters that burst into pieces like a piece of papier-mâché. Even for a low budget movie this scene was a great example for the quality of the entire movie. Ed Wood Junior couldn't have created a better piece of trash. That's probably the worst offering I have ever seen in a martial arts movie. Even Jean-Claude van Damme and Chuck Norris are faster and smarter.In the end, I can't suggest this movie to anyone with one humorous exception. If you happen to have a party with some good friends and you had way too much beers or drugs in your head, you may laugh like hell while you watch this piece of trash but it's really hard to get yourself on such a low level that makes you appreciate this worst Asian movie I have ever seen in my life. No, honestly and to be serious, don't believe the good rating and avoid this at all costs. Check out my other reviews of Asian flicks, there are so many better films to find no matter what you're looking for.

Jimmy Wang Yu has to avenge his families death and tries to find his enemies one after another. Of course he's very cunning and uses his smart tricks to find out where they are. Along the road he finds a girl who decides to go with him because she's got no where else to go. One person of the Chu gang decides to betray his clan and join up with Yu.Only the last fight is worth watching for the true kung fu fan because the old man at the end has got some skills (compared to Wang Yu), but it still isn't good. I don't get why Wang Yu got to make a lot of movies, because I haven't seen a good kung fu flick with him in it yet.I noticed that the music in this film was also used in "the mystery of Chessboxing", and since this movie is older, I start wondering where this music originally comes from. I can't believe it was originally for this movie because also the music was used in a very bad way (suddenly stops etc.)Not worth watching if you ain't a die hard kung fu fan.