Roger Judd, Jr.'s Profile:
Agreement: 70% of 34 voters agree with Roger Judd, Jr.'s reviews
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Location: Brossard, Quebec, Canada
Bio: I am a lawyer.Grew up watching martial arts movies in the 70's.Practised Taekwon-Do (ITF) from 71 to 83.Also trained with friends in Shotokan Karate,Hapkido,Tang Soo Do and some Chinese styles.Martial arts movies is one of my favourite hobby & I own over 1300.Favourite actors:Bruce Lee,Hwang Jang Lee,John Liu,Jimmy Wang Yu,Cheng Pei Pei,Shih Szu,Tan Tao Liang,Chen Kuan Tai,Lo Lieh,Ti Lung,Leung Kar Yan,Venoms + more!Not crazy about modern KF movies. Always ready to trade movies with KF fans.
Roger Judd, Jr.'s Ratings & Reviews (20 Max.):
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 |  |  | |  Incredible Kung Fu Mission (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Interesting but not John Liu's best. The choreography of some fights is poor (you can see the kick miss by 2 feet...). Overall good but not excellent. Worth watching if you are a Liu's fan.
| | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | Y | I have to say, I was disappointed in this movie after all the hype. You're right, some of the choreography is poorly done. | Mad Monkey |
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| | | |  Invincible Shaolin (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
One of the best Venoms movies! Great action. Beautiful fight choreography. Chang Cheh was at his best directing this movie! A pure delight for all martial arts movie fans. Interesting North vs South plot. What a great performance by Chiang Sheng with the butterfly poles! Very entertaining. And Wang Lung Wei is the best villain of all!
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| | | |  Snake Deadly Act (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Great old school classic. Probably one of the best movies featuring the snake style. Great choreography and very good training scenes. Some interesting acrobatic scenes. Often promoted as an Angela Mao film but she only has a small part in the movie--but she's gracious as always in it! Good performances by Wilson Tong and Philip Ko as well as by Fong Hak Onn. Plot is average at best.
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| | | |  Gang Master (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Chen Kuan Tai is very good here as a bad guy. Actually, I think he fights better when he plays a bad guy! The "hero" displays good techniques but it seems a bit too choreographed some times. I have seen him before but I can’t remember where. The storyline is OK. I was not crazy about the scene with the blue ninjas, but the fights are quite entertaining overall.
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| | | |  Kill The Shogun [1976] (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Usually I don’t like Kung Fu movies with rifles. This one is an exception. Hwang Jang Lee plays a very little part in here although the movies is advertised as a HJL movie (false advertising!). Nevertheless, the hero (I don’t know him) is excellent and show's great Taekwon-Do techniques. Very nice kicks and jumping kicks without much wire/trampoline help. Good hand techniques also. I wonder if he starred in other movies (I would love to know!). He looks Korean. His partner also is a very good kicker. The story line about the Japanese general who lost his badge or medal is plain stupid, but it's easy to let go of it. Excellent fights and great action. A bit of comedy (just enough, I don’t like too much!). Very entertaining!
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| | | |  The Inheritor Of Kung Fu [1981] (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Ti Lung is good here but only in the second part (basically the grand finale) of the movie (in the beginning he’s more like a clutz with two girls always saving him). The story line is average at best. Decent action. Some good fights, again mostly in the second part, but also many dumb ones. Some flying stuff like Superman...1 or 2 decent weapon fights. The last 15-20 minutes are probably the best part of the movie. The rest under average. Overall certainly not Ti Lung’s best but worth watching once. FF button could be used once or twice though...If not for Ti Lung at the end, probably only a 1½* or 2*.
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| | | |  South Shaolin And North Shaolin (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
That one messes me up! Very good technique demonstrations in training and fight scenes. Good kicking techniques by Casanova Wong. Most of the fights are very good. But I hate ninjas jumping from the ground or flying like bullets!!! Also a lot of accelerated camera techniques are used (where it artificially speed up the film). I hate that also in a movie. Complicated storyline (is there any???????). Overall, just OK.
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| | | |  Shaolin Martial Arts (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Good storyline (old school). Wang Lung Wei (my favorite villain) appears for the first time in this movie. Leung Kar Yan is young and also plays a bad guy. However, there is not enough fight scenes to my taste and most of them a bit too slow. 1-2-3 type of movements. The training scenes are boring. I was expecting much more with such a cast (Wang Lung Wei, Leung Kar Yan, Chi Kuan Chun, Gordon Liu, Alex Fu Sheng, Yuen Siu Tien). That's a superstars cast! It's worth to watch once when you like these actors (and who doesn't?). Secondary actors look like the same crew of HEROES TWO (which I liked way much better).
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| | | |  The Master (see film details)
Action/Adventure / Martial Arts
Overall not very good. Cheap comedy. Yuen Wah is OK as Jet Li's teacher (only the fight scenes). Jerry Trimble play's the bad guy. The acting is awful. Jet Li is pitiful in his first fight scene but gets better after. Seriously, the kind of movie that you can skip everything straight to the fight scenes. The training scenes are weird, very weird!. At 2½ stars [out of 5], I am generous...
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| | | |  The Shaolin Drunken Monk (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Quite boring movie! The fights are not very good. One of the worst display I have ever seen of "drunken style" performed by Gordon Liu. He looks so mechanical! Overall, I can't recommend this movie, unless you are an avid fan of Gordon Liu and wish to see all of his movies. You can pass on this one!
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| | | |  Shaolin Challenges Ninja (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
In my view, Gordon Liu's best movie ever. Classic old school story line of Japanese vs. Chinese but done within remarkable class and mutual respect. The fights are very well choreographed and Gordon Liu's shows an excellent arsenal of weapons. The comedy between Liu and his Japanese wife is hilarious (even though she sometimes got on my nerves!). Very entertaining! You cannot go wrong here! Just sit, watch and enjoy!
| | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | Y | i agree this movie is awesome if you like weapon fights then you've come to the right place. | kung fu kid |
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| | | |  The Fastest Sword (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Not much action here! The few sword fight scenes are okay but not spectacular. The finale, half of which is in slow motion, is quite boring I must say. Overall, this is more of a mind-philosophy type than action. Okay to watch, but if you're looking for an action martial arts movie, you can skip that one!
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| | | |  Double Double Crosser (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
I gave this movie 3* mainly because I am a Jimmy Wang Yu fan. Otherwise, probably not more than 2½*. I always liked JWY because of his charisma on screen. Not a very good stylist, more of a street fighter (although he is very good with the sword in early Shaw movies in the 1960's). The story line is complicated and boring. Judy Lee is OK at best in the few fights she has (she is way much better and spectacular in One Foot Crane). Lung Fei plays his usual bad guy and gives a poor performance here. The best fighting scenes are when Jimmy Wang Yu fights a group of thugs. The finale between JWY and Chang Yi is alright but nothing too exciting! Many fights are filmed too dark and/or too close. The print is OK but the sound is not very good. You lose the sound sometime for periods of 5 to 30 seconds which is annoying. So my final comment is if you are a JWY fan, you could watch it and enjoy it to some limit. Otherwise, you much better watch JWY in classics like The Chinese Boxer (aka Hammer of God), Beach of the War God, One-Armed Boxer, The Assassin, The Broken Blade and The One-Arm Swordsman, where he is much much better. |
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| | | | Shaolin Challenges Ninja (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
This is Gordon Liu's best movie ever. Classic old school Japanese -vs.- Chinese but done more in respect than hate. Some comedy, specially the scenes with Gordon Liu's wife who's a Japanese girl who always try to prove that Japanese martial arts are superior to Chinese's. Many great fights. Overall a very entertaining movie. In my humble view, Shaolin Challenges Ninja is one of the best 10 martial arts movie ever.
| | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | Y | This is indeed Gordon Liu's greatest film, and perhaps the greatest old-school movie ever. | MS10197 |
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| | | |  Secret Of Tai Chi (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
This is a very entertaining movie martial arts wise. AKA Tai Chi Chun. This is true kung fu without wires! Unknown cast to me but believe me they have nothing to envy Jet Li! Many fights. Beautiful choreography with and without weapons. I have seen over 500 martial arts movies and I did not know this one. So I did not expect much from this inexpensive movie, but hell was I surprised! Definitely in my top 20 martial arts movie list. The main guys moved as well as Jet Li and barely used any wire stuff which is much abused in Jet Li's movies. Actually the entire cast was great to watch. Do not hesitate to watch this movie if you love martial arts movies. You won't regret it! Highly recommended. It will be the best few bucks you'll have ever spent!
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| | | |  Bastard Swordsman (see film details)
Martial Arts / Swordplay/Sword(s)
That movie is a headache for me. Lots of flying stuff. Some crazy magic stuff and super powers crap...A bit of speed up fights. A crazy technique called the silkworm style that you only really discover at the end (and which is ridiculous that you van only laugh! But overall, I have to admit that the movie is entertaining! There is many good fights with excellent techniques and great swords play. But also many many stupidities. Excellent performance by Tsui Sui Keung. Normally, a movie like this gets a 2* rating or less from me because of the magic, super powers and stupidities. But like I said before, I could not help but being entertained and I did not use the FF button! So I'm giving it 3½* and I do consider myself a tough critic! LOL! To watch with an opened mind though. At one point it's like watching Spiderman with early special effects.....I am not sure if I'll watch the sequel though (Return of the Bastard Swordsman). |
| | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! | | AGREE? | READER COMMENTS | AUTHOR | | Y | I agree. There is not a plausible bone in this film's body, but it is still very entertaining. | MS10197 |
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| | | |  The Web Of Death (see film details)
Martial Arts / Action/Adventure
Seriously, there's not much to say about this Shaw movie. The only positive thing I can think of are the sets which are quite nice. But the storyline is absurd and the secret weapon is one of the most idiotic thing I have ever seen! Unless you like magic and super powers martial arts movies (I really hate them), you can skip this one with your eyes closed. Total waste of time. A FEW decent fights therefore the 1* rating, or else it would be a BIG 0!
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