| Argg!!! This may be the worst film I ever saw: moving setboards, awful backgrounds, teleporting people, visible wires, and a script that makes no sense at all. Poor, poor Ti Lung must have lost a bet or was taken hostage at gunpoint to even appear--let alone star--in this garbage. I'll give it a star just because he did his best to save this absolute mess and approached it with class. Luckily it didn't ruin his career, unlike Chan Hung Lit's (Chen Hung Lieh) directing career.
Okay, I'll try to make sense of this film's past. This film's alternate title is "Heroic One", which is not to be confused with "Heroic Ones" (1970), Chang Cheh's Shaw Brothers classic starring Ti Lung. This was made in Taiwan in 1981, but it's confusing since Chan Hung Lit (played main villian in King Hu's 1966 classic "Come Drink With Me") directed a film in 1973 called "The Inheritor Of Kung Fu". "The Inheritor Of Kung Fu" (1973) was filmed in Hong Kong and is also known as "Two Graves To Kung Fu" and has a very similar cast. This film, "Inheritor Of Kung Fu" (1981) also has a co-director named Pao Hsueh Lieh which directed "Hero At The Border Region" (1982) and also features a similar cast. I'm led to believe that "Soul Collector" was a generic title given by a certain DVD company since I can't find anything on that title.
A possibility on why this movie makes no sense is that it could have been edited together with another film...maybe "Hero At The Border Region", since Pao Hsueh Lieh is listed as co-director.
The Caucasian man with the ridiculous leap from the river is named John Ladalski and he is a American-born kung fu master that was in films such as "Armour Of God", "Bloodfight", and "City War", and has a school in Hong Kong.
Finally, with all the confusion, this film is terrible and is only recommended for diehard Ti Lung fans and people that want to see something so terrible it's funny. |
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