RipDelight
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Dirtylogy
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Murphy Howard
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Mischa Redfern
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Chung Mo
Uh....ugh.Rather disjointed and infantile entry in the Liu Chia Hui playing a Shaolin monk series. A broad comedy. Like other films of this nature it swings between intense violence and the goofiest HK humor. Unfortunately this is bad goofy with lots of "Brown" humor. Snot, farts, excrement, they're all here and more. Most of the film has the monastery student body divided into two camps; the secular Southern students and the Northern monks in training. It's a series of lame tricks perpetrated by one group on the other. The action is good but swings between exciting kung fu and absurd wire fu. The fight between a monk and a student over a prayer cushion is very good. Unfortunately too much time is spent on the juvenile antics.Good actors wasted. Skip it.
natedogg_36
This film shows the aesthetic's of what modern Kung Fu movies are about and where inspiration for movies such as Kill Bill come from. Very cool movie, i enjoyed it, and you need to watch movies for what they are. I have only seen the original Chinese version with subtitles but I believe there is also a dubbed version similar to the film the 5 Deadly Venoms, another great Shaw Brothers Film, and actually makes for cool voices. These types of films have a distinct style and are the inspiration for many filmmakers and also musicians such as the Wu-Tang Clan. This along with many other films may not be enjoyed by all but need to be seen for what they are, and that may not live up to today's Hollywood expectations. But I think great films don't need to be restricted by those expectations.
Mitch-38
Lame, chop-socky film that has everything but good acting, exciting action scenes, a comprehensible plot and a hint of direction. This one movie alone, could conceivably make folks ask the IMDB to make a rating LOWER than the numeral one! The story sort of runs like this...evil villains (from where we don't know) kill a bunch of guys (whom we do not know) to steal a coin or something (to take it and use it for...well, we don't know). Got that? Good! Next, some guy is sent by his mother to a Shaolin Temple. Why? I don't know. I guess to learn some really cool martial arts or become a monk, or both. Then, the lame, older-than-Charlamagne cliche of older students hazing the "newbies" rears it's grey head, and becomes part of the ummm...plot? Then the evil guys go to the temple and cause a rampage to a)steal something else or b)simulate the audience in demanding their money back. The end? We can only pray. Torturously awful...for masochists only.
