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Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

poe426 Picking up where SHAOLIN TEMPLE left off, HEROES TWO opens with Hung (Chen Kuan Tai) fighting his way out of a burning temple. He's wounded (in the back and the leg, the latter a particularly telling injury), but escapes. Manchus sort through the smoldering ruins in search of bodies in a scene that may have been hampered by budgetary constraints (none of the bodies shown are burnt). Meanwhile, Fang (Alexander Fu Sheng) also manages to escape the burning of a temple. He, too, is being hunted by Imperial agents and is tricked into believing that Hung is a bandit. Arrogant and gullible, he vows to catch Hung and actually helps the Manchus do it. He later learns that he has inadvertently betrayed a Shaolin brother and vows to rectify the situation. Toward the end, a quartet of red-robed Tibetan monks are brought in to deal with the two heroes and- no doubt because of the blood-letting- some of the scenes are tinted red. Another exceptional Chang Cheh effort.

phillip-58 This Shaw Brothers Chang Cheh film always seems to draw mixed responses. In some ways it was used to set the scene for the later Shaolin films but nothing with Alexander Fu Sheng and Chen Kuan Tai can ever truly be dull. Lau Kar Leung (and Tong Gaai) bring the fighting to life with an authentic feel that Lau Kar Leung really pioneered in such films. Zhu Mu and Chen Kuan Tai are great villains, though the latter could have had a better end fight against Alexander. The very pretty Fong Sam has a small but significant part as bait for the traps and Fung Hak On always does creepy villains well. It's hard not to see Feng Yi and not think of his role in Fist of Fury but he plays his part well. Perhaps one of the problems is that this film starts off in spectacular fashion with Alexander fighting amidst the burning temple and then mostly tells a story until the incredible mass fight at the end. I was told that in this fight the screen often goes red as it was so bloody it contravened the sensibilities of the time ? Alexander was nineteen when he made this - his first real starring role, and unfortunately died only a few years later. Not as good perhaps as the later films in the series (see Brian Camp's review) but not a bad introduction either.

petersgow I have to disagree with the above poster. This is the first of the Hung Gar movies, the flick was a big hit, and helped change how fight scenes were directed in Hong Kong. Before this film, with the exception of Bruce Lee, who was very athletic, most action films were either wanna be Bruce Lee clones- Bruce Liang, Li, Le, etc, with some occasional guys with good kicks etc, or clumsy Gang style knife fights- "Duel" "Vengeance" "Boxer from Shantung". The stars would throw flailing punches and kicks, and some how, with out any kind of skill, defeat an army of guys. Instead of trying to get a guy to look like a JKD stylist (i.e. combining boxing and Karate, not kung fu) they scrapped it for this much more classical style of fighting. Highly choreographed and unrealistic, at least it looked good. It's a movie, it's supposed to look good. As far as the "5 venoms" movies go, that was actually more of a Western Cult movie. At the time that came out, Jackie Chan was starting to break box office records, and the Shaw Brothers were getting beaten out by Golden Harvest and the TV serials.

veganflimgeek As a fan of Chang Cheh films I would first comment that he has several much better films. Heroes two is honestly pretty unwatchable for anyone but Kung fu film diehard geeks. The story is revealed in very short moments tied together between long scenes of Shoalin boxing. Punch- block-punch-block blah blah. I mean I was entertained but the most remarkable thing about this film was the title sequence was awesome.Instead of this film I would suggest other Cheh movies first. The heroic ones, five element ninjas or 5 deadly venoms come to mind first.