Anna in Kung Fu Land

Rating:
Summary: Bad Subtitles..... Drippy Plot
Review: Okay, I'm a big fan of Ekin Cheng's. I own numerous DVD's and audio CD's (he is a singer as well as a movie star), but I though Anna in Kung Fu land was low budget and quite frankly, the worst Cheng movie I've seen to date. Cheng stars as an advertising executive whose company hosts a martial arts competition in order to advertise its health drink. Cheng travels to Tokyo to recruit a famous martial artist. Instead he recruits his daughter, Anna.

Cheng, who already has a girlfriend, hits on Anna which convinces her to come to China to compete. Thus begins a round of 'romantic comedy' silliness which seemed flat and stale.

Cheng usually doesn't play annoying characters, but I felt he was a bit of a cad in this one. Why would he want Anna, when he already has a beautiful girlfriend back in China? His reasons and motivations were quite silly. The other marital artist characters were just silly stereotypes and the ending made no sense whatsoever.

The subtitles were atrocious and filled with misspellings and bad translations. For instance, there is a scene where an American actor says: "Wait, what are you doing?" and the English subtitle translates this: "Okay, go ahead." Say what? Really, really bad.

If you MUST see this, be prepared for some nice eye candy, but bad acting and a super silly disappointing plot.