Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

nicholls_les The story is a typical Martial Arts one. The brilliant Hwang Jang Lee plays a corrupt Ming guard who frames Hig Kicking John Liu for murder. As a wanted fugitive, John hides out with a teenager who is an expert in the infamous Iron Armor technique, a technique that means the expert can withstand anything. However, Hwang is an expert in it as well as the Eagle Claw. I won't give it away completely but the ending made many in the cinema laugh and some of the men cross their legs.For my money any film with both Hwang Jang Le and John Liu is worth a watch. This is not as good a film as the excellent Secret Rivals part 1 but still up there as one of the great Kung Fu films of the golden era.

Xing Gao Often times I find old school kung fu movies that have terrible plot or bad fighting. If I can excuse the bad plot I can watch it for the fight scenes, but a movie that does a good job on both is a real gem. The movie goes into great detail about the fighting techniques involved. Even if it is fantastical like magic, it is nice to see that the film makers took that extra effort to design choreography around the mythology of the specific kung fu style. The master of the Iron armor certainly shows off his invulnerability by trading blows with his opponent. Chow's fancy footwork was fun to behold. Shen was also able to demonstrate his unique double spear tipped Tonfa. Instead of having 3-4 major action scenes, the movie is well paced with 6+ fights leading up to the finale. A good balance of plot and action keeps me interested in the movie as an action movie, while I can still appreciate the reason behind all the fighting.

ebiros2 Invincible armor is totally old school kung-fu action film, but seems to attract many loyal fans. The title invincible armor comes from the main antagonist being a master of hard chi-kung can transform his body into indestructible armor (there are many martial artists who still practice this style in China. They demonstrate this by bending a spear with its tip on their throat). The protagonist practice one style that can penetrate this armor, but there's a twist. Body must be struck in certain sequence in order to defeat the armor. In this sense, the antagonist is bit like Bai Mei in the Executioners from Shaolin. The old school part is that one fight scene follows another with little or no story going. Why they have to fight so much, I have no idea. Then it comes to the final show down, and ouch ! the end happens in a very painful way. You have to see it to appreciate it.I would have like to seen more story than fighting, but that's my preference. It's a classic kung- fu movie format, and is one of the better produced movie of its kind. See it for the fight scenes.

phillip-58 This is the Longest Day of Kung Fu movies with Ng See Yuen using some of the top stars of the time in a film that obviously had some money spent on it - the costumes and (Korean) sets are really rather good. He seems to have been trying to recreate the success of his Secret Rivals with stars Hwang Jang Lee, Philip Ko and John Liu all appearing and Tino Wong in a major role. This is helped by Yuen Biao doing many of the stunts and appearing in a (short) fight. Unfortunately the story isn't bad but not brilliant (with rather a cowboy type theme) and John Liu though a brilliant fighter thinks acting consists of a slow smile and a nice character. Tino Wong does his best but is not an absolute top notch fighter and the brilliant Hwang Jang Lee does little kicking, though much protection of his private parts, using Eagle Claw techniques. Philip Ko is heavily disguised but very good as the brother of Hwang, but their fight is rather constrained and doesn't really show their abilities. The final fight against Hwang by John Liu and Tino Wong is reasonable but not outstanding. Watch for the story and the reasonable fights but this could have been better and somehow (like the Longest Day) the sum of the parts doesn't quite add up to a first rate film.