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Summary: Excellent Old School Kung Fu
Review: Chi Cuan Chun, Wang Tao, Luen kar Yan, Chang Yi star in this martial arts masterpiece involving an evil Mantis fist master hoping to kill all remaining students of the Eagle claw technique. After a student of the eagle's claw (Chi Cuan Chun) has a fall out with his school he joins forces with the rival mantis school. Can he trust them, or do they have other plans for him and his former school? The story is deeper then you would ever imagine. Great fight choreography, and a cast like no other. Must have for any collector.
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Summary: Eagle vs Mantis, Amazing film
Review: Chi Cuan Chun, Wang Tao, Luen kar Yan, Chang Yi star in this martial arts masterpiece involving an evil Mantis fist master hoping to kill all remaining students of the Eagle claw technique. After a student of the eagle's claw (Chi Cuan Chun) has a fall out with his school he joins forces with the rival mantis school. Can he trust them, or do they have other plans for him and his former school? The story is deeper then you would ever imagine. Great fight choreography, and a cast like no other. Must have for any collector.
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Summary: A classic
Review: Eagle's claw has a great plot, the whole movie moves at a perfect pace. Loads of great kungfu action by the masters!
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Summary: Excellent plot & fights
Review: Eagles's Claw is one of the better movies in Tai Seng's Martial Arts Theater collection. The film features the Eagle Claw and
Mantis styles of kungfu, and the fight scenes are well choreographed and also very well filmed. The cinematography is excellent not only in the fight scenes, but also in the rest of the film.An evil Mantis and Eagle Claw kung fu master wants to destroy the Eagle Claw kung fu school. He attacks the school and mortally wounds the teacher of the school, but he is also injured himself. The evil master recovers from his injuries, but the teacher of the Eagle Claw school does not, and he dies. After the death of his teacher, one of the main disciples of the Eagle Claw school defects to the enemy, and joins the evil master and his clan. Meanwhile, the second disciple of the Eagle Claw school becomes the new leader of the school, and he prepares his school to fight the evil master and his henchmen, who still want to destroy the school. The plot is interesting, but the middle of the movie is sort of boring. The end of the movie is much better though, and the fights near the end are the best in the film. The sets in this film are excellent, better even than most Shaw Bros. films. One of the best parts of this film is the villain, played by Chang Yi; he is so good that it makes you want him to win. The only flaws I found in this movie are that the heroes are not very good at kungfu, or acting, so it is sort of disappointing when they win in the end. This version of the film is widescreen and the quality is very good.
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Summary: Old Style Kung Fu
Review: If you like Shaw Brothers Style of movies this is a must have. Picture quality and audio are fair as typical of poor quality transfers, but tolerable. Fighting and movie are classic old style kung fu and make up for above.
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Summary: Old Style Kung Fu
Review: If you like Shaw Brothers Style of movies this is a must have. Picture quality and audio are fair as typical of poor quality transfers, but tolerable. Fighting and movie are classic old style kung fu and make up for above.
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Summary: Pretty avarage kung fu romp, nothing special here.
Review: The best thing about this film is the main villain Ching Yi, with pointed boots and a stupid hat. Fighting is surprisingly weak, but gets better towards the end and the plot has a few interesting twists (though predictable.) Enjoyable film, but doesn't have to be seen more than once (ok, I've seen 3 times already...).
For some really energetic fight action, get Sammo Hung's masterpiece Warriors Two (the best kung fu film ever), also from 1978 (which makes Eagle's Claw look very slow and very very old skool). But still. Maybe Lee Tso Nam's best film (definately over-rated here, it's far from 5-star quality, or even 4,) so see it if you have to (worth a rental.)
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Summary: Nice little classic kung fu diddy
Review: The film starts out interestingly enough. Several fighters go through their eagle claw sparring forms on some soundstage with a serious-sounding narrator describing the history of the forms. You know what I'm talking about. This always gets me excited that I'm in for a treat. I was not disappointed. In this Shaw Brothers-like tastey little kung fu diddy, the film relies heavily on the "7 eagle claw styles" and the secret 8th and 9th styles. Pretty nice classic kung fu storyline. The fighting is intriquing and satisfying. Having said that, this is not a great movie, but a nice, supremely watchable movie. As I think back to the days when I saw films like these in theatres in the 70s, this would probably be the "second" movie on the triple bill, not the "marquee" film, though not the "third" film either. Nice film to add to your classic collection.
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Summary: Nice little classic kung fu diddy
Review: The film starts out interestingly enough. Several fighters go through their eagle claw sparring forms on some soundstage with a serious-sounding narrator describing the history of the forms. You know what I'm talking about. This always gets me excited that I'm in for a treat. I was not disappointed. In this Shaw Brothers-like tastey little kung fu diddy, the film relies heavily on the "7 eagle claw styles" and the secret 8th and 9th styles. Pretty nice classic kung fu storyline. The fighting is intriquing and satisfying. Having said that, this is not a great movie, but a nice, supremely watchable movie. As I think back to the days when I saw films like these in theatres in the 70s, this would probably be the "second" movie on the triple bill, not the "marquee" film, though not the "third" film either. Nice film to add to your classic collection.
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Summary: A Classic if you like Kung Fu
Review: This movie is a little cheesey, but what Kung Fu movie isn't? It's all about the fighting scenes anyways right? If you like good training sequences, and good action/fighting scenes, you'll like this one!
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