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Summary: One of the best martial arts movies, ever!
Review: Jet Li and Michelle Yeow explode in this fantastic screenplay about good and evil, Shaolin, Kung-fu, love, honor, betrayal, and, most of all, Tai Chi Chuan! If you like the classic Kung Fu movies, or even enjoy the newer Hollywood versions, you must see this movie. For those less interested in martial arts, there is MUCH MORE to this movie than fighting.
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Summary: Look for an earlier version.
Review: The Hong Kong releases of this movie are under the title "The Tai-Chi Master" and are universally better than this release. This was a wonderful movie before it was shrunk and dubbed. Disney seems doing this to all of the Hong Kong movies it can buy. Not only are they presented in a shortened version, they are not so much translated as rewritten. While I love these movies they just can't survive being dumbed down. It takes them from the sublimely ridiculous to the annoyingly stupid. Avoid any and all of these releases. The originals are well worth the trouble of digging up.
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Summary: Tai Chi too?!!?!
Review: Featuring a cast of awesome wushu practitioners, this is a gem in the Jet Li line-up. And the Tai Chi-esque performance done at the end makes this a fun lineup.
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Summary: BEWARE!
Review: i rented this movie and while the movie is probably pretty good, Miramax completely ruined it by DUBBING it and not offering an original Chinese track w/ Eng subtitles. Skip this and pick up an IMPORT version on EBay.
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Summary: ALL DUBBED! aaugh
Review: ALl 4 movies in this set are dubbed in English. I was horribly disappointed. Dont make the same mistake I did. Find the dubbed ones.
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Summary: GREEEEEEEEAAAAAAATTTT Movie, Jet Li's best
Review: Ok, 1000 words isn't enough to describe how good this movie is. Though the beginning starts out slow, its playfulness is amusing. Then, as the boys grow up, this comedy/action movie really lifts off. Seperated on different sides, one on the army's side and one on the rebel's, along with treachery and trickery, it seems that they play as they did as children, but on a MUCH higher level.
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Summary: Great Collection
Review: Jet Li is Awesome. Pretty much that sums it up. All four movies are good with Fist of Legand rising to the top. By far, the best martial arts movie I have ever seen. Fist of Legand, a remake of Bruce Lee's classic Chinese Connection, is truly remarkable. The story line was adapted from Chinese connction with a few added plot lines. The action is fluent and runs smoothly throughout the movie. The classic dojo fight where Chen fights the whole school at once was done perfectly. And the end fight scene is one of the best I've seen. It was amazing!
Then, my second favorite of this collection would have to be Twin Warriors. A truly outstanding traditional chinese Wire Fu masterpiece. The action throughout is incredible mixed with light humor. And, like Fist of Legand, the end fight scene was remarkable.
Next, I would say would be the Enforcer, although when I first saw it as a subtitled movie it was called Father is Hero. This one incorporates a little bit of a darker story line dealing with the deep undercover work of Li's character. The fight scenes are good, but do not really dazzle until the end. Overall it's not a bad flick for any Jet Li fan.
Now the reason I give this collection 4 stars is due to the fact that it has the Defender in it. It tried to be a story movie first and an action movie second, but in my opinion it didn't do that well of a job. The action is weak throughout and ends weak. Definately not one of my favorite movies, but I watch it every once in a while. A Jet Li fan can appreciate this movie but it probably will never make the top of anybody's list
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Summary: One Of Jet Li's Best
Review: This is my favorite Jet Li movie. It's full of action packed scenes then there is the humor factor which every movie needs to be rated as very good. The story tells about the paths two friends take after being expelled from their shaolin school. Left without the influence and quidance of the monks they must determine how far they will go to survive and acheive success even if it means becoming deadly enimies. This is definately a must see as Jet Li shows his martial arts skills as well as his acting skills
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Summary: Butchered Movie
Review: If you want to see this movie, find the original version under Tai Chi Master, rather then this English dubbed version by Dimension/Disney. A regionless DVD of the original Tai Chi Master can easily be found on the Internet. The fight scenes are some of Jet Li and Yuen Woo Ping's best, and it has a strong story line unlike some other Jet movies. The only other Jet Li movies that have comparably good fight scenes are Once Upon A Time In China 2 and Fist of Legend. However, I am only giving this movie two stars because of what Disney has done to this movie in the US DVD. Having seen the original movie on video, I saw this DVD at Blockbuster and decided to rent it, thinking that a US DVD would be much higher quality than what I originally saw. Well, I was pretty wrong, I cannot even begin to imagine what they were thinking. Buying this version of the movie is equivalent to getting an incomplete movie. One of the worst changes comes in the music. Or should I say what music? The original movie had a very beautiful score, in fact it was so good that I bought the soundtrack for it and still regularly listen to it. In Disney's version, all the original music is removed, and scenes where there was music, there is either complete silence, or a very downplayed stereotypical sounding westernized version of oriental music. The is quite sad since the original music was very moving and accentuated the rhythm of the fight sequences perfectly. The original movie also had a strong storyline centered around the origin of Tai Chi, but Disney perhaps thinking that an American audience wouldn't understand this, decided to just capitalize off of Jet Li's name being attached to the movie. Much of the background and scenes relating to Tai Chi and its invention now have completely different dialogue. The changed emphasis in the storyline just makes Twin Warriors into a stereotypical plotless chop-socky movie. One of the biggest ways they reinforced the cheap Asian movie stereotype was through horrible dubbing. Some of the humor in the movie is more due to poor quality dubbing than the actual jokes. I'm sure some people prefer to watch dubbing in English, so that's usually fine by me as long as it's done decently or if there's a way to switch to the original language. And good voice dubbing can be done, this is Disney after all, known for its cartoons with great voice acting and musical talent. Unfortunately, this movie only has one audio track, the dubbed one. It's a DVD; there's no excuse to remove the original audio track, especially when you remove plot and story in a poor dub. This is what DVDs are for, the ability to choose between the original language and the dubbed language. Disney get only one think right, the picture quality. This version looks much sharper and cleaner than the original, although there are areas where a weird green lighting is noticeable due to whatever remastering that Disney did. The Tai Chi Master was one of Jet Li's best martial arts films, but Disney's rendition is plotless and empty. Twin Warriors simply keeps promoting the cheap, low budget, senseless, martial arts movie stereotype, throuh cheap, low budget, senseless editing. I highly encourage seeing the original movie, it is one Jet Li's best works, but stay away from this bastardized and incomplete version.
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Summary: 5 stars if the dvd was done right
Review: I'm referring to the dvd version from dimension. I bought this dvd only to find that some scenes were cut and the only language available was English. There's no excuse with this technology and the retail price ... that you cannot keep the movie in it's original editing and also offer the original soundtrack as well as multiple languages. The movie itself would rate 5 stars but the dvd was so bad I had to give it away and went out to buy the Tai Chi Master dvd. And ... it was cheaper as well as a better experience than I had with the dimension version. If you can, go buy Tai Chi Master, not "Twin Warriors."
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