The Revenger

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Summary: Vosloo fan reviews the Revenger
Review: I bought this movie from Amazon because it had Arnold Vosloo in it. It's about a man who meets up with a friend(Vosloo)and it changes his life. Unknown to the main character his long lost friend is up to his neck in trouble with a crooked man. He spend most of the movie trying to get his life back. Not a bad movie, but Arnold is only in it for about the first 15 minutes. A must have for die-hard Vosloo fans. It's one of his first movies-89.

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Summary: Arnold Vosloo fan reviews The Revenger
Review: I bought this movie through Amazon because Arnold Vosloo was in it. For any Vosloo fan you should at least rent it. It's nice to see Arnold in any movie, but he is only in it for about 15 min-the story line isn't bad. A sax player meets up with an old friend(Arnold)and unknowingly gets into his troubles and tries to get his life back.

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Summary: Great Classic Kung-Fu/Swordplay Movie
Review: I'll try to keep this short. The Revenger is an older, "classic" kung-fu flick. A very, very brief and approximate synopsis: A free-lance fighter resists the "unionization", if you will, of the fighters in his province. The evil leader and his fighters ambush the good guy to do away with him. 18 years later, his son goes on a quest to gather all of his fathers bones, which apparently rest with each of the fighters that ambushed him.

What's unusual about this film is that most of the combat is done with various weapons. If you have a favorite martial arts weapon, it's probably in this movie (although I was disappointed that the fan fight was so short). The sets in this movie look great, as do the costumes, creating a very colorful film that is pleasing to the eye.

The quality of the DVD is ok. The transfer is full-frame. While the film is not re-mastered, most of the film is quite vibrantly colered.

In summery: great martial arts film, good dvd, excellent addition to your collection.

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Summary: Great Classic Kung-Fu/Swordplay Movie
Review: I'll try to keep this short. The Revenger is an older, "classic" kung-fu flick. A very, very brief and approximate synopsis: A free-lance fighter resists the "unionization", if you will, of the fighters in his province. The evil leader and his fighters ambush the good guy to do away with him. 18 years later, his son goes on a quest to gather all of his fathers bones, which apparently rest with each of the fighters that ambushed him.

What's unusual about this film is that most of the combat is done with various weapons. If you have a favorite martial arts weapon, it's probably in this movie (although I was disappointed that the fan fight was so short). The sets in this movie look great, as do the costumes, creating a very colorful film that is pleasing to the eye.

The quality of the DVD is ok. The transfer is full-frame. While the film is not re-mastered, most of the film is quite vibrantly colered.

In summery: great martial arts film, good dvd, excellent addition to your collection.

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Summary: So Bad, It's Good: Part 2
Review: Shao Tu (Ti Lung) is a young swordsman who, though no saint himself, loves to be a thorn in the side of anyone who oppresses or bullies someone weaker than themselves. Shao Tu particularly enjoys continually thwarting the blackhearted Mao. Swearing revenge, Mao convinces his sister to manipulate Shao Tu by pretending to fall in love with him. What Mao doesn't count on, however, is that his sister really does fall for Shao Tu. Shao Tu gives up his sword and the two live happily together, and soon Mao's sister becomes pregnant. Mao is furious, and still intending to carry out his original plan, he reveals to Shao Tu that his wife is really Mao's sister. Crazed by this perceived betrayal, Shao Tu walks right into Mao's trap and is killed by Mao and his men. Mao then wants to kill his sister, but she escapes. Mao and all his fighters each take a few of Shao Tu's bones as a souvenier of their victory.Eighteen years later, Shao Tu's son, Shao Shu (also played by Ti Lung), promises his mother on his deathbed that he will collect his father's bones and bury them beside her. He embarks on a journey and soon finds he must kill all of the fighters responsible for his father's death so he can collect the bones, and eventually all that is left is the skull which of course, Mao possesses. (also of note here- Dorian Tan plays the son Mao adopted upon murdering his parents). In summary, this movie sounds like it is a tremendous epic. In reality, however, this movie is the poor man's Chang Cheh film. The director of this film not only tried (and failed) to emulate the tragic, heroic swordsman films that Chang Cheh produced effortlessly over and over throughout his career, but the movie even features an actor who today is synonomous with Chang Cheh, namely, Ti Lung. While the companies that release these films are notorious for stinting on the English dubbing budgets, they must have really been low on funds when producing this movie, because almost all of the females have the same voice. In addition, the utter ridiculousness of this film really detracts from the enjoyment of it- I mean, not even the illustrious and charismatic Ti Lung can revive a scene where he is fighting with a roast chicken impaled on his sword. While the fight sequences are exciting to watch, I have to admit, they're a bit clumsy, and Ti Lung's capacity for high-octane fighting was not exactly maximized here. Having said all of that, I'm not quite sure why I love this film, but I truly do. It's just one of those films that's so bad, it's good, and will always have a prime spot in my collection.

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Summary: Ti Lung stars in dual role in minor kung fu epic
Review: This Hong Kong kung fu film from 1979 offers a more complicated cross-generational plot than usual as a group of children seen in a prologue and flashbacks reunite, all grown up, to get revenge for crimes committed against their parents. Star Ti Lung plays both a father and his grown son in separate scenes. Although the English dubbing is terrible, there is a very nice score of original Chinese music. The photography and set design are above average, although the plot does get confusing. It all culminates in a big, gimmicky battle in a palace as the grown children take on evil master Wang Ching (a perennial villain in these films). Other kung fu greats in the cast include female star Hsu Feng and high-kicker Tan Tao Liang.