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Rating: 
Summary: Double the dragons, double the action!!!!!!!!
Review: Aside from the horendus acting, inane filming, absurd plot, and a usless director, this movie is RAAAAAADDD!!!! At times the directer of this F-Movie must have been on drugs. This is evident due to the films overall lack of a little thing called a plot. In this movie the story follows wang, a complete master of fighting. He is hired to protect the governments money but is ambushed then saved by a mysterious man. The man is really an evil conspiratist, waiting for his chance to take the govenments property. He kills wang and steels his daugter but lets his son go. The son is raised in the wilderness and seeks training from an old geezer with a muschdash. After his training is complete the goes to face the evil kil( the man who murdured his father).
He goes about his buisness by sending kil threatening letters, as he makes his move he meets another man that shares his apperance and his mission. They kick, punch, and fly through hords of kils minnions. Finaly one dragon dies but the other lives on. He faces kil and his deadly hair, eventually killing him. Then kil meets his father who was suposed to be dead and kils daughter who was realy Dragons sister. They walk off into the forest a family once again.........genus.
Rating:
Summary: Double the dragons, double the action!!!!!!!!
Review: Aside from the horendus acting, inane filming, absurd plot, and a usless director, this movie is RAAAAAADDD!!!! At times the directer of this F-Movie must have been on drugs. This is evident due to the films overall lack of a little thing called a plot. In this movie the story follows wang, a complete master of fighting. He is hired to protect the governments money but is ambushed then saved by a mysterious man. The man is really an evil conspiratist, waiting for his chance to take the govenments property. He kills wang and steels his daugter but lets his son go. The son is raised in the wilderness and seeks training from an old geezer with a muschdash. After his training is complete the goes to face the evil kil( the man who murdured his father).
He goes about his buisness by sending kil threatening letters, as he makes his move he meets another man that shares his apperance and his mission. They kick, punch, and fly through hords of kils minnions. Finaly one dragon dies but the other lives on. He faces kil and his deadly hair, eventually killing him. Then kil meets his father who was suposed to be dead and kils daughter who was realy Dragons sister. They walk off into the forest a family once again.........genus.
Rating: 
Summary: Buy It, Then Store It on Your Bottom Shelf
Review: The DVD transfer on this film is usually dark, or at times like a day in which heavy clouds move in front of the sun, casting shadows. During those fleeting moments when the shadows abate, you get a sense of how good the transfer might have been. The classic kung-fu plot of revenge is played out rather unevenly--trying, I think, to accomplish too much with too little. None of the characters seem to develop, although the film attempts to over-develop them with insufficient scripting and feeble story lines. The soundtrack, using exerpts from, among other things, the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" theme song (while the hero travels alone and misses his father) and 1960-ish ensemble jazz (during some of the fight scenes), intensifies the film's inability to suspend the viewer's disbelief (unless it is this viewer's incredulity at having purchased the film, then having watched it through to its conclusion). The fight scenes were generally unrealistic, with blows and kicks from the given camera angle missing their targets by as much a foot or more (that's 12 inches, not to be confused with the five-toed appendage that the kicker wields). The fighting styles portrayed were rather stiff and "slow" looking, giving one renewed appreciation for the likes of really talented artists, like Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Gordon Liu, Jackie Chan, etc. If for nothing else, this film is worth watching just to see the coloration of the villian's hair (I won't spoil the surprise for you), and the way he uses it in the final fight scene. In addition, the dubbing has a decidedly Old Western-sounding flair which actually makes the film strangely endearing. Despite all these anomalies which, by the way, typify the movie in its entirety, I will no doubt watch the movie again, somewhere down the road, being an inveterate fan of this movie genre which, I believe, belies an underlying bent toward masochism. I can think of a host of kung-fu movies I would rather have purchased than this one, knowing what I now know about it. And I would certainly not recommend that a kung-fu movie neophyte make it one of his/her first, critical purchases, either. Although I did not dislike this film enough, nor perhaps have sense enough, to discard it, I will consign it to the bottom shelf of my budding kung-fu library. **POST SCRIPT**
I watched the movie again last weekend (blush). In terms of a "good" bad kung-fu movie, this is it. Those characteristics of poor filming, tired plot, poor acting, incongruent dubbing and less than thrilling fight scenes--those things that us die-hard addicts to this genre will routinely put up with in the quest for a moment of plausible kung-fu entertainment--all coexist, in excess, in this film; but I still could not bring myself to get rid of it. Who knows? It may become a "classic" in its own right, within the ranks of "Grade B" grade B martial arts films.
Rating:
Summary: five stars all the way.
Review: This has to be the most retarded movie I have ever had to suffer through. It seems that one of the two cameras that were used in the making of this "film" (If it can be called that) was slightly jaundiced. As a result every other shot is in a completly different tone than the one it follows. Since this is a foriegn film (look for dubbing that gives "Kung Pow" a run for its money in overall quality) some people may pass this off as artistic. Whatever it is, you will notice it from frame one --and if that weren't indicitive eneough of a bad movie, once you see the Canadian company that impoprted this crap's opening logo, you will promtly experience a seizure. And that my friends is rarely a good sign. The nonexistant acting makes Pokemon the Movie look like Gone With the Wind. Possibly the best thing about this abomination is the completly rad box art. Despite all these shameless defects, this is a definite classic. Me and my friend laugh our heads off from start to finnish --every time we watch it. Be sure to watch the scene where "Dragon" jumps up infont of some generic evil ninja dudes as if to kick them, but instead magicly appears about five feet behind them as they fall as if they were kicked, without dragon traversing any space at all.
Rating:
Summary: five stars all the way.
Review: This has to be the most retarded movie I have ever had to suffer through. It seems that one of the two cameras that were used in the making of this "film" (If it can be called that) was slightly jaundiced. As a result every other shot is in a completly different tone than the one it follows. Since this is a foriegn film (look for dubbing that gives "Kung Pow" a run for its money in overall quality) some people may pass this off as artistic. Whatever it is, you will notice it from frame one --and if that weren't indicitive eneough of a bad movie, once you see the Canadian company that impoprted this crap's opening logo, you will promtly experience a seizure. And that my friends is rarely a good sign. The nonexistant acting makes Pokemon the Movie look like Gone With the Wind. Possibly the best thing about this abomination is the completly rad box art. Despite all these shameless defects, this is a definite classic. Me and my friend laugh our heads off from start to finnish --every time we watch it. Be sure to watch the scene where "Dragon" jumps up infont of some generic evil ninja dudes as if to kick them, but instead magicly appears about five feet behind them as they fall as if they were kicked, without dragon traversing any space at all.
Rating:
Summary: five stars all the way.
Review: This has to be the most retarded movie I have ever had to suffer through. It seems that one of the two cameras that were used in the making of this "film" (If it can be called that) was slightly jaundiced. As a result every other shot is in a completly different tone than the one it follows. Since this is a foriegn film (look for dubbing that gives "Kung Pow" a run for its money in overall quality) some people may pass this off as artistic. Whatever it is, you will notice it from frame one --and if that weren't indicitive eneough of a bad movie, once you see the Canadian company that impoprted this crap's opening logo, you will promtly experience a seizure. And that my friends is rarely a good sign. The nonexistant acting makes Pokemon the Movie look like Gone With the Wind. Possibly the best thing about this abomination is the completly rad box art. Despite all these shameless defects, this is a definite classic. Me and my friend laugh our heads off from start to finnish --every time we watch it. Be sure to watch the scene where "Dragon" jumps up infont of some generic evil ninja dudes as if to kick them, but instead magicly appears about five feet behind them as they fall as if they were kicked, without dragon traversing any space at all.
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