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Summary: One is not better than the other
Review: This is one of the greats, yes, but each to their own.Five Deadly Venoms, Crippled Avengers, Kid with the Golden Arm, Super Ninjas, they are all great, appreciate the talent, it's some of the best around, and just enjoy the movie. Because if you're a true fan, you are going to love any one of the titles as I do.
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Summary: Unique Classic and extra
Review: This movie has been re-named three times from "Mortal Combat" to Crippled Avengers - and finally Return of the Five Deadly Venoms .....This is a very unique classic in that it displays Handicapped martial arts experts who overcome their limitations and seek revenge on the evil villain who forced them to become cripples .... You really should check out HOW /WHAT specialty an old but very astute instructor teaches each Crippled peasant how to rise from helpless victims to superb martial artists. Must See !
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Summary: A martial arts masterpiece!
Review: This movie has it all, including the most-thought out choreographed fight scenes ever! The action is almost non-stop after the characters are introduced.The story begins with three men breaking into the home of one of their enemies in search of revenge. Instead they find his wife and son. They decide to take their revenge by cutting off the wife's legs and the sons hands. But when the man they're after gets home and catches them in the act, they are dead meat. The father then realizes that his wife is dead and his son's a cripple. But he promises his son that he'll have iron (or was it steel?) hands built for him, and that he'll teach him the variations of the TIGER style of kung-fu. But that's just the first 5 minutes and they aren't even the main characters to this story. In a twist that would make Brian Singer proud, the focus switches to a group of cripples who in search of their own revenge (nuff' said, buy it!)
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Summary: Pure Venom
Review: This movie is a classic, the first film I saw on Kung Fu theater that left a life long impression of true martial arts. Bruce Lee being the best is a given, but the Venoms are right behind him.
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Summary: Pure Venom
Review: This movie is a classic, the first film I saw on Kung Fu theater that left a life long impression of true martial arts. Bruce Lee being the best is a given, but the Venoms are right behind him.
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Summary: An excellent movie.
Review: This movie is simply awesome. The figting scenes are great and you also get good laughs. I recommend this movie to anyone. One of the best I've seen as of late.
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Summary: Crippled Avengers!
Review: Tu Tin To (Chen Kwan Tai) is a rich man who has made a lot of enemies among his former cohorts, the Tin Nan Tigers. Their leader, played by Dick Wei (Tu Lung), gathers a band of men and storms Tu's house while he is out. He kills Tu's wife (Pan Ping Chang) by cutting off her legs, and maims his son by chopping off his hands. Tu's son, named To Chan, lives, and his father has a pair of iron hands made for him. Chan (Lu Feng) then begins to learn his father's Tiger style Kung Fu. Tu Tin To and his son terrorize the town that they live in. It is Tu's aim to control the entire region, and he is very cruel. Even the shopkeepers tremble when Tu, his son, and their head bodyguard Wan (Wang Lung Wei) approach. Only one man doesn't fear them- the brave and hard-headed blacksmith, Wei (Lo Meng). When in a tea shop, Wei sees Chan beating two men with his iron hands, he begins cursing and threatening, furious that they are abusing the townsfolk in such a way. Also in the tea shop is a poor Hawker selling shoddy goods by the name of Chen Sun (Kuo Chui). Chen Sun commends Wei for standing up to Tu and his son, at which point, an enraged Chan decides Chen Sun "isn't seeing straight", and punctures his eyes with his iron hands. Later, Tu captures Wei and makes him drink a liquid which renders him mute, and when even that fails to subdue him, he bursts Wei's eardrums and makes him deaf as well. The horror doesn't end there, either. A young man named Hu Kwei (Sun Chien) is in the midst of an argument with his boss. Hu Kwei quits his job, storms away angrily, and stumbles into Chan. At this, Chan declares he has "careless feet", and Wan orders his men to chop off his legs.Wei, Chen Sun and Hu Kwei meet up, and since they are all cripple, they decide to stay together. But Tu Tin To declares to the town that if anyone helps them, they will answer to him. In the end, the townspeople ridicule the cripples, beat them, cheat them and generally humiliate them. A travelling Martial Arts student by the name of Wang Yi (Chiang Sheng) comes to the town looking for a blacksmith to make him a knife. When he sees the townspeople ridiculing the cripples, he is infuriated. A townsman tells him the story, and he goes to Tu Tin To's home to take revenge for them. Unfortunately, Tu Tin To defeats him, puts a vice-like machine on his head and gives him braindamage. So now there are four cripples living together. The four end up returning to Wang Yi's master's house, where the master teaches all four of them to deal with their handicaps and to learn Kung Fu. After three years, they are bonified Kung Fu masters, and feel like men again instead of cripples. It is then that they are ready to return to the town and take revenge on Tu Tin To and his son. It's the training sequences at the master's house that really make this film. They are absolutely unbelievable to watch. Kuo Chui's scenes are the high spot- he has an incredible sequence where he is thrown a series of rings of various sizes, which he uses to pull, push and throw Chiang Sheng- backflipping, spinning, flying, rolling- you name it. Sun Chien is surrounded by a series of wooden men, many of which are taller than himself, but he smashes them to bits with his new "iron feet" (courtesy of the resident blacksmith, Wei), even leaping to extreme heights to smash the heads- then he proceeds to kick away heavy logs which are hurled at him at full speed with dead-on accuracy. Lo Meng's training, in part, consists of having to break a jug which is suspended behind a spinning wheel of fire. He has to reach between the spokes of the burning wheel and burst the jug, which keeps getting smaller and smaller as time goes by. Chiang Sheng's role as the mentally crippled Wang Yi is probably the best he ever played in all of his Venoms films. He is absolutely hilarious as the idiot with great Kung Fu who kicks and punches his crippled friends for fun, eats flowers, gives away life-or-death secrets, and is generally a real nuisance to everyone in the film. In particular, he drives Lo Meng out of his mind, and the grimaces of anger he makes at Wang Yi had my sides aching. In fact, the facial expressions of Lo Meng during the entire film are priceless.When the four return to their old town, there are several fight sequences before the final showdown at the end. Kuo Chui is once again the highlight of these scenes, as he uses an iron pole which he spins at dizzying speed in intricately choreographed routines, mowing down his opponents left and right. And of course, the final fight scene is done in true Venoms fashion- lots of dazzling flips and kicks, rolls and punches, eye popping choreography through and through. For me, this movie is tied with "Five Deadly Venoms" as being the best Venoms movie of all time. Why? Because, simply put, this is one of the most incredibly vivid, moving, awe-inspiring pieces of art I have ever seen. The cinematography is stunning, the choreogaphy of the fight and training sequences is not only jaw-dropping, but from an aesthetic point of view, it is simply a masterpiece. The characters are larger than life, and the Venoms and their co-stars have never been more on-target with their roles.
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Summary: Chalk up one for the gimps
Review: What an interesting concept for a movie. Its funny, action packed, and has a great story. What else can you ask for from a martial arts movie...especially an old school one? While watching this movie, one of my cousins said, "I don't think this is politically correct." He didn't think they would be able to make a movie like this today, based on different groups complaining. Maybe he's right.
But this movie had a great concept. The movie is based on four guys, who are your average Joe's versus the rich kid, and his master father. The rich kid has an unfortunate accident as an enemy of his master father cuts his hands off while he's very young.
In his frustrations of his handicap growing up, he takes it out on some of the town folks. When one guy mentions that he can see he has no hands he's not blind, the rich kid pokes him in the eyes w/his metal hands, blinding him. When another guy says I know he doesn't have hands, I'm not dumb. The guy is forced to drink a poison taking his voice, and then they smash his ears making him def. Then another guy gets his legs cut off, and another guy is placed in a torture device giving him brain damage.
The movie focuses on these four guys getting revenge on the family who gave them these handicaps. It's a splendid movie. Though the guy w/brain damage was annoying at time, and it's a lot bloodier then the first one, its still very fantastic. Also, don't worry, its old school fake blood.
Watching a 5 Deadly Venoms movie, you can't go wrong. This movie was fantastic, and I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys good action movies (not just martial arts movies).
Grade: A
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