Viewer Comments:The Young Vagabond
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Liu Chia Hui and Young Wang Yu are half brothers who fight like brothers do but are very close. The first part of the film explores their closeness as they get into scrape after scrape. The film goes from silly and light hearted to dead seriousness when Young Wany Yu's birth mother (Liu Chia Hui's step mother) hires Wang Lung Wei to kill Liu Chia Hui to ensure that her son will inherit the family's winery.
A good and funny film with a great cast: Gordon Liu, Wang Yue, Jason Pai-Piao, Johnny Wang Lung-Wei, and Ku Feng. The film tells the story of Beggar Su. Nice action. The film is worth the money. Buy it!
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| N | Don't think so he resorts to biteing what happend to old school martial arts if it was't for wang lung wei this would be a flop. | Kung Fu Classic Viewer |
I liked this film. It's not bad. It was refreshing to see Gordon go crazy at the end.
The story was not bad and the fights were okay. You've gotta' remember Gordon's Begger Su didn't know too much kung fu--that's why the fights weren't all that good with him.
It's a drama action comedy, that's how I saw it.
If you're a fan of Shaws or a fan of Gordon Liu, pick this up and tell me what you think of this. I thought it should get 4 stars [out of 5].
| There's something missing from "The Young Vagabond", but I can't quite put my finger on it. The cast is very good: Liu and Yue have great chemistry, especially during the soccer scene (Stephen Chow, eat your heart out!), all the regular Shaw heroes and villains perform their parts well, and the Beggar Su character is well-known to anyone who is familiar with the "Ten Tigers Of Kwangtung". So why does the movie not measure up?
The action scenes are lacking. The best parts are the training scenes with Liu and his teacher played by Jason Pai Piao. Wang Lung Wei's fight scenes are also quite good. None of the other action sequences really stand out in terms of technical excellence or great choreography. The comic scenes are really amusing at times, but the movie starts out as a comedy that ends up with piles of dead bodies lying around. The abrupt change in tone is hard to take. And then there's the ending: one of those "blink and you've missed it" finales. The cheesy triumphant swell of music accompanying the credit role seems out of place as well. "The Young Vagabond" tells the back story or origins of the historical character known as Beggar Su. It was fun while it lasted, but I don't think I'll be watching it again any time soon. |
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