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Wing Chun

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great Kung-Fu
Review: This is a great Kung-Fu flick with some pretty impressive fights throughout the movie Yuen Woo-Ping style,While it can't touch some of his action masterpieces like TAI-CHI MASTER or FIRE DRAGON,this movie contains a healthy nouurishment of well choregraphed fight scenes.While it is a rather silly movie(especially if you own the english dub) it does have good cinematography,be warned though this is a sort a women's rights movement type of movie being that the women fight superior to the men,which isn't a problem in some movies,but with Donnie Yen co-starring it kind of dissapointed me (althogh Donnie has some great scenes as well).In all not a must buy,but definitley should be checked out by any Yuen Woo-Ping fan.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: big fun (other than the subtitles)
Review: This is a great martial arts movie. The story line is funny and entertaining, and the fight scenes are well-executed. There's a bit too much wire-fu for my taste, but there's plenty of non-wire stuff that kept me happy. Michelle Yeoh (sigh) is wonderful, and Donnie Yen has great comedic sense, and both have super kung-fu skills.

The only annoyance was the appallingly bad subtitles, though they're sometimes bad enough to be fun in themselves. They're not up to the standard of the rest of the DVD, though, by a long shot. I have the HK version by Modern Audio Ltd., and I suppose that this issue may be specific to their release. That aside, I heartily recommend the movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: big fun (other than the subtitles)
Review: This is a great martial arts movie. The story line is funny and entertaining, and the fight scenes are well-executed. There's a bit too much wire-fu for my taste, but there's plenty of non-wire stuff that kept me happy. Michelle Yeoh (sigh) is wonderful, and Donnie Yen has great comedic sense, and both have super kung-fu skills.

The only annoyance was the appallingly bad subtitles, though they're sometimes bad enough to be fun in themselves. They're not up to the standard of the rest of the DVD, though, by a long shot. I have the HK version by Modern Audio Ltd., and I suppose that this issue may be specific to their release. That aside, I heartily recommend the movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good movie, great fun, Michelle Yeoh, enough said.
Review: This is a nice movie even for casual fans of martial arts movies and more serious fans should definitely grab it. It is a period piece, but i feel that it is rather far from being a costume drama. For some excellent Chinese/HK drama, go check out "Raise the Red Lantern" or even some of John Woo's earlier work like "Last Hurrah For Chivalry" (John Woo with swords!). That said, this is an EXCELLENT action flick, fast and humorous with a plot significantly stronger than most Jackie Chan movies. I love the tofu fight scene and although some of the fight scenes verge on the fantastic (i.e. "The Executioners") and are clearly enhanced with cutscenes and camera trickery, the vast majority is good old single-shot martial arts mastery. Michelle Yeoh rocks hard and is finally allowed to look cute at the end of the film (her looking like a man is a running gag most of the way through) but the actress who plays the young widow is just plain beautiful. As noted above, the subtitles are pretty strange. There are 3 soundtracks on this disc, English, Cantonese and Mandarin and while I usually avoid dubs like the plague the subtitles on this film are so horribly done that I prefer the dubs by far. There were several times that people onscreen were laughing at a joke that was just plain nonexistant in the subtitles...it's like they let Babelfish handle the sub translation. Just stick with the english dub and you'll be in for a funny, better-than-average kung-fu experience.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best Wing Chun information films made.
Review: This is an excellent resource for students of Wing Chun. This, despite the fact that Master Wong intentionally demonstrated some things slightly wrong due to a distrust of the producer of the film. This doesn't take away from it's quality however. All of the Wing Chun principles are demonstrated and explained, and shot very well. It is a shame that the footage at the end supposedly for more advanced editions was only test footage.

But all minor niggles aside, not only is this one of the best presented Wing Chun instructional films out there - no displaying of Siu Lim Tao from all angles over and over, or specific techniques displayed without exaplanation as to how they apply to Wing Chun principles for example) - but it is also the only time the late Master Wong Shun Leung was captured on film in this way. So aside from being a great instructional film, it is worth the Wing Chun enthusiasts purchase if only to see all the film footage of Master Wong.

Oh, and the accompanying music's really groovy too! ;-)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best humorous kung-fu movies
Review: This is my favorite Michelle Yeoh movie. This one rivals Jet Li's Fong Sai Yuk (Part 1) as one of the best humorous kung-fu movies. Beautifully choreographed action mixed with truly funny situation comedy (not the silly, junvenile comedy that typify many HK movies).

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the best humorous kung-fu movies
Review: This is my favorite Michelle Yeoh movie. This one rivals Jet Li's Fong Sai Yuk (Part 1) as one of the best humorous kung-fu movies. Beautifully choreographed action mixed with truly funny situation comedy (not the silly, junvenile comedy that typify many HK movies).

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Too much hype - not enough originality
Review: This Michelle Yoeh star vehicle is an enjoyable little movie. There's nothing too challenging. The plot isn't very complicated. There's not much flying.

Still, the reputation as the greatest female martial arts movie ever made is troubling. There are a dozen other Hong Kong movies starring women that are much better and Michelle Yoeh is certainly not the greatest of Hong Kong stars. She fights. She emotes, but she's not that fascinating to watch.

Besides that this movie isn't much more than the standard late 70s Hong Kong movies. Hero is great. Hero gets beat up. Hero has to learn better martial arts. Hero goes back to fight again and wins this time out. The martial arts are a little better choreographed and it looks like they can afford a better class of rock quarry these days, but it's not much more than a female version of Snake in Eagle's Shadow.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent Michelle fight scenes, and lots of them!
Review: This movie has a fight scene every 15 minutes, it seems. Michelle is wonderful. The choreography is graceful and it's -- hey -- a chick flick. The story is fun, light, enjoyable. The characters are also fun, light and enjoyable.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Wing Chun is a must see!
Review: Very briefly, Wing Chun is one of the best Hong Kong movies my husband and I have ever seen. It's mixture of mythology and camp is flawless and Michelle Kahn (a.k.a. Michelle Yeoh, of the James Bond thriller Tomorrow Never Dies) has a sense of humor and timing that is hard to surpass. It is definitely a must see.


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