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Summary: Lord of The Wu Tang
Review: Basically the story is about 2 swords, 1 contains (inside the sword) the instructions for the most powerful kung fu, the other contains instructions how to lead an army and become China's emperor.But on one knows this secret. Everyone thinks these are magical swords and would give their owners invicibility. So the fight begins for the 2 swords... This is story a bit confusing, purely because the original story is over 3000 (3 thousand pages) long. What makes it even more confusing is this story is a sequel to another 3000 pages Kung Fu story. So to try and compress 6000 pages to a couple of hours on DVD would confuse any viewer unless you already know the story ! Anyway, this is the best Kung Fu story ever. It was first published on a HK news paper in the 1960s. Most Asian males should know this story !
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Summary: WRONG FREAKING MOVIE!
Review: I'm now a grandfather. But I've been watching kung fu movies ever since 1961, as a kid growing up in San Francisco Chinatown. This movie rates as one of my all time favorite kung fu movies, and I own about 100 or so. The print isn't very good. The subtitles are hard to read. The story is among the most complicated and convoluted, especially for the non Cantonese speaking. But who watches a kung fu movie for plots? What I really enjoyed about the movie is that it actually shows what the Chinese cinema could actually do. It has tremendous battle scenes. Despite the poor print quality, the movie has some fantastic visuals. The movie is not a documentary. The movie is not an "imagined documentary." A lot of things seem to come out of left field. But it's OK. It's a MOVIE!! Quite frankly, the movie plot could easily be translated into a Star Wars episode!
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Summary: Among The Greatest Kung Fu Movies
Review: I'm now a grandfather. But I've been watching kung fu movies ever since 1961, as a kid growing up in San Francisco Chinatown. This movie rates as one of my all time favorite kung fu movies, and I own about 100 or so. The print isn't very good. The subtitles are hard to read. The story is among the most complicated and convoluted, especially for the non Cantonese speaking. But who watches a kung fu movie for plots? What I really enjoyed about the movie is that it actually shows what the Chinese cinema could actually do. It has tremendous battle scenes. Despite the poor print quality, the movie has some fantastic visuals. The movie is not a documentary. The movie is not an "imagined documentary." A lot of things seem to come out of left field. But it's OK. It's a MOVIE!! Quite frankly, the movie plot could easily be translated into a Star Wars episode!
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Summary: Jet Li's best
Review: Jet Li is actually a punk in the first part of the movie. But from the opening bell the one is incredible. If you can get past the subs the movie has great fight scences, Beautiful but deadly fighting babes, Incredible weapons(liquid sword)& Old gray haired guys with Madd kung fu skills. I did not even know one of the gray haired was Sammo Hung until the 3rd time I watched it. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: confusing, but entertaining
Review: Kung Fu Master, also known as The Evil Cult, is one of the most bizarre martial arts flicks I've seen in a long time. The plot is nigh-unto incomprehensible, but involves six martial arts clans from China and Persia who are fighting over two magical swords--a skinny glowing one and a big, fat, choppy one with curlicues. Somehow, a very young Mo-Kei, maybe only six or seven at most, is attacked by evil martial artists and left with a grey handprint on his chest. This is the dreaded Jinx Hand. His parents are understandably upset by this marking, and so is Mo-Kei's uncle, who is a powerful martial arts master. You see, this handprint means young Mo-Kei will never be able to use kung-fu or have sex, or else he will die. At least, I think that's what it means. In the meantime, it makes him "very painful" and subjected to frequent bouts of near-hypothermia. Mo-Kei's parents and his uncle rush him off to a temple where they try fruitlessly to cure him. The parents kill themselves so that the bad guys don't learn where their "buddy" is hiding with his magical sword. Just before his mother dies, she tells Mo-Kei to avenge their deaths on all the baddies. Unfortunately, that's pretty hard to do if you don't know kung fu. After all, there were no machine guns in this time period. Eight years later, there's a bizarre scene where the uncle, now 108 years old discusses his morning erections with a very mature-looking 14- or 15-year old Mo-Kei (played by Jet Li). Uncle explains that Mo-Kei does not get erections because he is weak, but that he himself is no old granny, and has them every morning! Mo-Kei is kept alive by energy transfusions from his uncle and can only look wistfully at all the cool kung fu guys practicing their mad martial arts skillz. Then a hot chick shows up, and he becomes even more confused when she tricks him into watching her get ready for a bath. This is, of course, grounds to off the inoffensive Mo-Kei, and he gets chased off a cliff along with a kung fu mama with a jug-handle hairdo. After groping her chest on the way down, Mo-Kei and the girl meet an old man imbedded in a giant boulder. He teaches Invincible Solar Stance (or something like that) to Mo-Kei, which somehow cures him of his Jinx Hand affliction and allows Mo-Kei to kick ... The story only gets weirder from here, with a kung fu vampire named Green Bat (who asks a master to suck poison out of his bottom), an evil queen with a lethal harpsichord (complete with harpsichord battle), a master with foot-long eyebrows, Red Cross workers with a penchant for hookers and rape, and more talk of erections. Because Mo-Kei has become a master of Invincible Solar Stance, he learns yet another advanced style--Magical Stance--in a scant six hours. For anyone else, it would take thirty years. He then proceeds to kick more ... with this technique. Mo-Kei's learning skills are increasing at an astronomical rate. The final fight scene is great because Mo-Kei learns the entire art of t'ai chi chu'an in approximately ten seconds. Of course, he kicks even more ... Many ... are filled with footprints by this point. I really don't quite understand what happens at the end, and since the movie stops without really wrapping anything up, I can only assume there is a sequel, or at least the intention for a sequel. If you're in the mood for some REALLY over-the-top martial arts involving ropes, wires, and terrible subtitling, this is the film for you. If you're in the mood for well-filmed martial arts choreography, look elsewhere. This is far too silly.
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Summary: Wonderful Fantasy, but get the Original Version!!!!!
Review: Ok first off, all of you who are buying this silly Lord of the Wutang title are getting the cover up bootleg of the original movie which is The Kung Fu Colt Master (or Kung Fu Master here in US). Don't get the Lord of the Wutang version for the sound and picture really suck, and the distributors are known for cutting stuff too. With that aside, let me just say that this is one of the very few hk fantasy films that I own, and yet its one of my favorite movies. The story is basically about 2 swords that make the users superpowerful, and there are several kung fu schools looking and fighting for it. Jet represents one of these schools and througout the film, he masters several martial art techniques at an interestingly fast pace. He needs to protect his great grandfather, who happens to know where the swords are, from the corrupt schools. Warning, this is no Fist of Legend, but the martial arts are quite decent in my opinion. Yes, there is flying and superhuman powers in this film, but it actually makes it fun, not like dumb movies like the Storm Riders (this movie is too much). Plus, the film is extremely hilarious, especially the scene where Jet gets stuck in a cave. There are also 2 extremely beautiful women in this film that just made me go gaga. Watch it and find out what I mean. I'd totally recommend a buy tho, but like I said get the original Kung Fu Colt Master. I got the HK version which is presented in 5.1 dolby, and the picture is pretty clear as well. I can't say much for the World Video US release version, except that the cover looks really crappy. However, I've heard the transfer is pretty good and it has an english dub as well. But original Chinese w/ subs is the way to go for me. So go check this one out, and if you like it, try Swordsman II(w/Jet also)...check out my other reviews too, mostly HK flicks. Hope this was helpful.
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Summary: Bad hair day
Review: Some people didn't like this movie for various reasons; too much wire work, confusing plot, etc. Personally, I didn't like the wigs some of the guys were wearing and I understood the plot only in broad general terrms, but I still have to give this movie 5 stars, even if it sometimes did feel more like The Lord of the Rings instead of Hong Kong Cinema. As for too much wire work or not, the fights were still great and you didn't have to wait long to see one. And as for the wire work itself...without it, we'd be back to the seventies Shaw Brothers Kung Fu theatre formulas, and while some of that stuff was pretty good, it was still one dimensional and got to be fairly monotonous after a while. Hell, even the Cantonese got tired of it. And without innovation, stagnation sets in. As for the characters...admittedly, Jet Li did look like a Chinese Luke Skywalker in his all white costume in the last fight scene, but as always his moves were a fine combination of fluidity and force, like a combination of Mikhail Barishnakov and Bruce Lee. It's always a pleasure to watch him, even if the movie you're watching him in isn't that good. Chigmy Lau (sp?) as always looked good (although her hair style made it look like she had jug handles on her head), and Tsui Kam-Kong looked unusual only because he had his clothes on (He often shows up in the softcore porn of HKC, like the Sex and Zen series and Erotic Ghost Story). And of course, last but never least, I liked Sammo's sometimes grouchy, sometimes affable, always lethal Chang Sang-Feng (FYI, in case you don't know, the same character Jet Li played in Tai Chi Master, and the Taoist monk who supposedly created T'ai Chi). His on the spot T'ai Chi/Wu Dang lesson to Jet Li at the end was both entertaining and probably the best description of T'ai chi I've ever heard in a movie; "without form, beginning or end, forget all your forms", or words to that effect. When the script allows him, Sammo can really make himself stand out on the screen. So, all in all, Kung Fu Cult Master is definately worth seeing, bizzare hairstyles or not.
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Summary: Fantasy Kung-Fu Parody
Review: This disc is not the best in the world, but it was interesting. Obviously transferred from a video source, the disc is extras-free and not brimming over with quality processing. The overall appearance is rather muddy, and the subtitles are both duplicated in English and Chinese, and very hard to read most of the time. No chapter access, either. On the other hand, the DVD is Widescreen, so I give credit for that. Also, this is a very different style of kung-fu film. I refer to it as a parody because that's what it reminded me of more than anything else; a parody of fantasy martial arts films. Characters not only fly and leap like superheroes, they can also blast opponents with energy bolts, lightning, magical swords, and fantasy kung-fu strikes. The story is a bit hard to follow. Basically, bad guys looking for a magic sword cause the death of Jet Li's parents, and attack their child with with a slow-killing strike. The result is that Jet Li cannot learn kung-fu -- if he tries, he'll die! Eventually, he is cured and becomes the Master of all kung-fu by learning the secret of the "Solar Stance" technique from a powerful kung-fu teacher. Then, Jet can take revenge on the people who killed his parents. Along the way, he meets up with a kung-fu mistress who helps him learn even better kung-fu, another evil kung-fu mistress who wants the handsome young Jet Li for herself, an a bad kung-fu mistress who now controls the magic sword. He also runs into a confusing array of kung-fu masters, enemies, and armies. I admit that I got a bit lost trying to follow who was fighting who, and why. The ending was also left kind of up in the air, as if the film was meant to be the first chapter in a series. Still, the fights are spectacular. Not quite up to the "Once Upon a Time in China" standards, but spectacular nevertheless. In one scene, Jet is attacked with harp strings by the evil mistress, and in another, an army is devestated by an underground assault! Overall, the film is a lot of fun, mostly because it takes itself seriously (albeit with tongue firmly planted in cheek). Despite the shoddy processing, the disc is definitely worth the low price for Jet Li fans, or for "Crouching Tiger" fans with a sense of humor.
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Summary: Awesome Fantasy!!
Review: This is different type of Jet Li movie than his others. I haven't seen this type of fantasy movie and i thought it was great!! I was wondering if anyone knew of other movies in the same genre? The only dissappointment was the subtitles, they were unreadable at times. But if you are able to read them there are some very funny conversations....
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Summary: Awesome Fantasy!!
Review: This is different type of Jet Li movie than his others. I haven't seen this type of fantasy movie and i thought it was great!! I was wondering if anyone knew of other movies in the same genre? The only dissappointment was the subtitles, they were unreadable at times. But if you are able to read them there are some very funny conversations....
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