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Bio: Ol' Skool fu fan - Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Seasonal Pictures, anything good from the 60-70's. Wire is cool if done well. I dig flicks by Sammo Hung and the Yuen Clan (or Woo Ping alone), and you generally can't go wrong with David Chang/Ti Lung pairings, Chen Kuan Tai, Alexander Fu Sheng, the Venoms, Gordon Liu, Yuen Biao, Leung Kar Yan (aka Beardy), Lau Kar Leung & Lau Kar Wing, young Jackie Chan and Jet Li, among others
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The only reason why I rented this flick was so that I could make a copy for my pal Steve Gibbs, who likes cheesy movies. During the copying process, I watched parts of it, and I gotta tell ya, it ain't that good. In fact, it's an excruciating pain in the ass, at least for me. It is yet another kung-fu flick set in the old days instead of the 1970s. Nowhere to be found are Jackie Chan, Samo Hung, Bruce Lee, or any of those lousy fakers (Bruce Lai, Bruce Leung, Bruce Lam, etc.) The hero doesn't even wear a shag haircut (a la Jackie Chan, Bruce Jenner, Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada, Andy Gibb, David Cassidy, Scott Baio, that Battlestar Galactica guy Richard Hatch, and dozens of other '70s hunks). There's also a ton of gore. Gore is cool in an animated movie like Fist of the North Star, but it's not cool in a live-action film like this. As you might expect, the dubbing is absolutely awful. The plot is as old as time. (Some dude uses his martial arts skills to defend family honor.) There was a lot of shit-on-celluoid produced during the 1970s (New Fist of Fury, Slaughter in San Francisco, Godzilla vs. Megalon, Not Scared to Die, Lipstick, and The Incredible Melting Man, just to name a few), but this crap is pretty damn close to the bottom of the barrel. The penny-pinching Shaw Brothers produced this one. (Jackie Chan says in his autobiography that even Shaw Brothers contract stars got next to nothing.) This was allegedly the first HK kung-fu film to make it at the American box office; I wonder why.
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Sorry, but but gotta disagree with ya. This flick is a fu classic, everything about it is a model for so many others that came after. BTW, Jackie and Sammo's days in the limelight came much later than this film dude!
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