Next, we once again meet Chang Cheh’s basher boy band the Venom Mob in no less than four of their best-loved team-ups: Invincible Shaolin, The Kid with the Golden Arm, Magnificent Ruffians and culminating in the all-star Ten Tigers of Kwangtung, co-starring Ti Lung and Fu Sheng.Īfter Lau brings us perhaps his best high-kicking comedy with My Young Auntie, a playful star vehicle for his real-life muse Kara Hui, we see Shaw Brothers fully embracing Eighties excess in our strangest double feature yet: Wong Jing’s breathtakingly wild shoot-‘em-up Mercenaries from Hong Kong, and Kuei Chih-hung’s spectacularly unhinged black magic meltdown The Boxer’s Omen. Already established as a genius at blending dazzling action with physical comedy, Lau himself plays the lead role in the hilarious Mad Monkey Kung Fu,coupled here with Lo Mar’s underrated Five Superfighters. We begin with kung fu master Lau Kar-leung’s instant classic The 36th Chamber of Shaolin,in which his adoptive brother Gordon Liu achieved overnight stardom as the young man who unexpectedly finds spiritual enlightenment on the path to vengeance Lau and Liu followed the original with two comically inventive sequels, Return to the 36th Chamber and Disciples of the 36th Chamber,both included here.
#FIVE SUPERFIGHTERS MOVIE MOVIE#
Five Superfighters isn’t a great movie by any means, but as a insignificant action fix, it succeeds tremendously.Picking up where Volume One left off, this sophomore collection of Hong Kong cinema classics draws together many of the best films from the final years of the Shaw Brothers studio, proving that while the end was nigh, these merchants of martial arts mayhem weren’t going to go out without a fight!Īrmed with stunning special features and ravishing new restorations, this boxset is even bigger and bolder than the last one.
Unsurprisingly, the comic relief isn’t terribly memorable either.ĭespite a below basic story and characters, I still think this movie is enjoyable due to the fight scenes and the soundtrack which take up most of the runtime. Even though the fights were very inventive and fun, you never really care who’s going to win because we don’t know much about any of the characters. The filmmakers seem much more focussed on choreographing creative fight scenes than trying to flesh out the characters. The main characters are all one-dimensional and extremely dull. A lot of the fight scenes are accompanied with a funky soundtrack which I personally thought added to the fun.īut still, there are many problems with this movie, especially the lack of a story. The five main actors (including Hau Chiu-Sing) are fantastic in the fight scenes, which is good because the action takes up maybe two-thirds of the entire movie. The fight scenes are spectacular and the main stars get to show off their incredible acrobatics. After they’re defeated, the students of the monkey kung fu school (Austin Wai, Ng Yuen-Jun, and Tony Leung Siu Hung) want to regain their reputation so they decide to go learn different styles from other teachers and return to have a rematch with the Black Caped Villain.įive Superfighters is essentially a 95-minute long fightfest with very short breaks for comic relief. In Five Superfighters, the Black Caped Villain (Kwan Fung) goes around to different kung fu schools and fights their students in order to correct their bad kung fu.
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