Kung Fu Action for a $1
924757
Eight thieves steal a map and hide the pieces. A constable investigating gets his partner killed in a showdown with some of thives and goes on mission to find the map pieces and return the treasure to its rightful owner. Not the greatest plot and even at 90 minutes the movies seems too long; but it does have plenty of badly dubbed kicks and fighting sequences that make it an OK campy movie, certainly worth the buck I paid for it.
2749089
If you're looking for ninjas, you'll love the opening credits... and not much else. The movie opens with a Shaolin monk being randomly attacked in the forest by a team of ninjas. Not a bad way for any movie to start! Following this attack, the ninjas disappear. For the rest of the movie.
What can I say? The acting and dialogue through which the viewer must drudge in order to get from fight scene to fight scene is horrible and awkward, but what Kung Fu movie fanatic hasn't paid their dues in this respect? The problem with this movie is that the the dialogue/acting are worse even than one might expect. It gets to the point where it's distracting, you know? Also, I think the male lead... MIGHT have down syndrome... Nothing wrong with that, of course. It's just a little surprising to see in a Kung Fu movie.
Still, the fight scenes themselves are fairly well done. The choreography doesn't quite stand out, but the enemies against which the Shaolin brothers are pitted, including ghost-and-zombie type dealies as well as masked attackers, make for some colorful fights.

In summary:
Don't get too excited about the ninjas, it's a trick. Skip past anything that isn't a fight. Make your own story!
1220294
This movie is dubbed in English.  The story is too simple, but the kung-fu choreography was well done.  Story is a guy comes to town in search of his friend in order to get a job and live.  He was broke with no shoes, but he had kung-fu.  His friend warned him not to show off his kung-fu in this town as it will only get him into trouble.  The company his friend worked in was a fabric weaving company, but there was a competitor who needed the same workers, so the competitor would use various trickeries to lure employees away including money and force.  To shield the company from losing their workers, they train their employees basic kung-fu.  So the new kid in town decided that he could be better used as a kung-fu master in the company and showed off his kung-fu that helped him rise with promotion after promotion.  Soon, he was able to have new shoes, new clothes, new home and his favorite, a new watch.  He was even offered a new girlfriend.  However, what goes up, must come down, so the competitor constantly challenged him until he lost it all with his life.  His friend then had to revenge for him even though his friend was very disappointed at how he just wanted more and more, and then lost it all.
2028182
Some very low budget gun play, martial arts, & sword play scenes. In between, there is some very amature level acting.  This film is about gratuitous violence, not sex (or even skin).  The budget is micro and it shows.  The director is into Ennio Morricone scores and Sergio Leone films, and this film pays homage to both.

Some people are going to like this film because blood & violence.  However, if you want trashy Japanese exploitation cinema with blood & violence I recommend these other (much better) films: Azumi, Azumi 2, Tokyo Gore Police, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, & Helldriver.

Or if you want something even better than those films, then stick to the 1970s output of Toei Studios.
2726430
This game is pretty cool.  The trainer dude is a laugh and the gritty style works well.

I'm looking forward to my fighter improving and becoming more responsive, but the fighting works ok and there looks like plenty to do.

It's not too gruesome and i picked this up for under a five! What a bargain.

If you have 2 move controllers you need this game to help get your worth from them. Stick with it, you'll enjoy yourself, plus it tells you the calories you burn......cash back!
731150
This is a decent made for TV action movie. It takes lessons from Willis and Schwarzenegger on how to shoot enormous rounds of bullets, make lots of explosions, and kill bad guys in a number of ways. Dean Cain as the off duty suspended cop and Eric Roberts as the level headed leader of the heist team. The robbers are after a large amount of money transferred to the bank from the mall on Christmas Eve. All the actors are reasonably good at their roles. The acting is above par for most B actioners and the story is plausible and the characters lines are done well enough you don't feel abused with giving it the time to watch. For a price below ten dollars it will make a nice inexpensive gift for most men. The DVD is fair quality but does not include extras.
151019
I had fun while I was playing this game,missions are short but challenging at times. If you like the movie then You will like this game,one more thing I wouldn't pay more than $19.99 because its short.(only 9 missions)
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I watched this on Amazon Prime and was just looking for something to kill time while my old lady finished her shift at the Gentleman's Club.  Anyways the action is very much like early Jackie Chan movies without any of the funny stuff. The Protagonist Casey is buff. This dude has some muscles. Reminds me of when I was young. Well him and this other feller Matuzukawa or something like that have a beef. Matzukuwa is apparently jealous of Casey's muscular build and the fact that the other chicks at the Dojo like him.  Matszukuwa tries to kill him and he gets expelled by Sensei.  It fasts forward some years later and we some old dude named Temple running some sort of Satanic/Illuminati/Freemason thing out of his factory. The requirement to get in is wear a cheap leather jacket, a hoodie, and get branded with the Iron Cross on their chest. Ouch! Anyways this Temple feller is a bad ass using Materzukawa as his Assassin to knock off rivals which he does very nicely and gory. Well later on Matsukawaz shows back up at his old haunt drunk, stoned, or both trying to get the Yoroi Bitsu. A nice chest with some cool Ninja tools in it. His old Sensei tells him he's SOL and Matsukawasaki leaves. The Sensei gets Casey and the really good looking Chick to take the chest to New York. MattysnattyKawasan comes back and kills the Sensei trying to get the chest. Since it's not there and with the help of Verizon he locates that the chest is in New York City.  That's when the battle begins. Subway shoot-out. Plenty of street fighting and of course two Ninja's going at it. Some nice head chopping too.  I won't tell you the complete ending but it's not as bad as some reviewers think. Plenty of dramatic music and the Gaffers really went to the extra mile for them F/X. The others been watching too much of that new Jackie Chan/Jet Li/Tony Leung stuff to pick up the central theme here. That you don't mess with Ninjas!
4589649
I saw this in the cinema, but as I recall I wasn't too impressed. Don't know why, it rocks!

Angela Mao Ying (Bruce Lee's sister from "Enter the Dragon") is great. Sammo Hung is pretty cool AND very slim! (Yep, it's so long ago!) There's plenty of action. In fact, my girlfriend said there were too many fights and it spoilt the story. Now how can you have too many fights in a martial arts movie!?

The story is the usual one school upsets another, yada, yada, yada...

If there's one regret it's that Wong In Sik (one of Lee's opponents in "Return of the Dragon") isn't used enough. You really need to see this guy kick!

And as for Ji Han Jae (one of Lee's opponents in "Game of Death"), well, his part is very short, but wonderful.

Oh, and if you're really, really, really observant - and don't blink too often - you might even see Jackie Chan!

Yep, apart from some great action, part of the fun is spotting actors who starred in Bruce Lee movies.

Good movie.
3444234
Old school style martial art movie. But a good one.
3008139
Snagged one of these used ; for the kids .
Hey are having fun playing KUNG FU LIVE . HA !

and it's a good way to ensure they work out ;)

Pretty good little side purchase , thx !
3789941
The game is really fun and you get into it, but flaws are that they play too much video as advertisement for the movies, and the game is unbelieveably short. I beat the game in two days, and it was really fun to play but my fifty bucks went really quick. It is cheaper now since it isn't current anymore so the price may be more reasonable. You get to play as more characters as an upside than the two towers video game and the fighting is awesome, a real combos game. If you find it for a cheap price, say $15, then I would recommend buying it. Otherwise you might just want to rent it and you'll probably beat it before you have to return it anyways.
100963
It really deserves a 3.5...  It's no surprise that most of the movies on this set are extremely bad.  There's also a set two (Iron Fist Frenzy 50 Movie set) which is also pretty mediocre.  However!  Having said that, there are a few really good movies on here.  If you want true 'kung fu', you'll want to skip through the blaxploitation action films that have no real martial arts in them.  The highest IMDB rated film on this list is The Impossible Kid, a movie from the Philippines featuring Weng Weng, a famous midget martial artist.  It has an 8.1 rating on IMDB, but don't let that fool you.  It's so laughable that it looks like something on Tim & Eric's Awesome Show....  I know that people on these reviews are touting Ninja Death as the funniest 'terrible movie', but I raise them The Impossible Kid.  Hilariously bad.  Anyway, I also realize that most people on these reviews are jumping on the Shadow Ninja and saying it's the best movie on here.  It's okay.... Which is good for this set!  But I would argue that Heroes of Shaolin Parts 1 and 2 are by FAR the best movies in this set.  Choreography is actually terrific in this two-parter, because the fight choreographer was none other than Yuen Biao!!!!  He also plays a very minor role in the film - Lo Lieh capably handling the main role.  Most of the other films are terrible, as suspected - but the Heroes of Shaolin parts 1 and 2 are worth the 8 bucks!
3602602
This is my favorite of the John Woo/Yun-Fat pictures. Chow is way dope. More bullets flying than The Wild Bunch. Guys get shot 15 times, and keep coming. Very bloody, and somewhat cheesy all at the same time. Kinda of a wired Homo thing going on between the main cop and assassin, but still balls to the wall cops and robber movie! If you haven't seen this yet, the question is, "maybe I should get out more?". Word.
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I can't say for certain if any of you will think this is a great collection to have! Here let me explain the movies!

DANCE OF DEATH

Dance Of Death is a movie about Mao who plays a orphan boy who seeks revenge against a bird clan for killing her friends! The movie is in original language, widescreen with chinese/english subtitles! The picture has some white snowflakes and stuff but overall the movie is watchable! The kung fu is great in this one! Choreographed by Jackie Chan! Or at least that's what the box says!

STING OF THE DRAGON MASTER

Mao plays some Chinese girl who helps a group of Korean rebels against a Japanese Samurai Clan! The picture is awful! It's fullscreen, the picture quality looks beyond b-movie, you'll mostly see white, and to boot it has english subtitles and the movie is english dub! The kung fu would be good if not for the full screen cuz most the fights were to close!

MOONLIGHT SWORD AND JADE LION

Mao is on the search for her masters brother so she can find out who killed her family! The movie is in widescreen and the picture is good enough! BUT the movie is english dubbed! :( And the sound quality is extremely bad! You'll have to turn your t.v. all the way up in order to hear this one! This was probably the fault of Venom Mob company cuz this could be easily fixed! The kung fu action is descent nothing to special!

So all in all, this is quite a questionable product! There is nothing broken as far as how the DVD's play! The Dvd's work perfectly! But all I can say is either just get Dance of Death by itself (get Venom Mob/Crash Cinema version cuz Ground Zero version is english dubbed and fullscreen) cuz that was a tight kung fu movie, or if you are a hardcore advocate of Angela Mao (she's so sexy when she kills someone) or of kung fu cinema then by all means get this baby! Otherwise, if you are nik-picky about picture or sound quality then I advise against this product!
1274725
RZA loves Hong-Kong martial arts movies. Even if you don't know the origin of his group's name Wu-Tang Clan, you know that for sure after watching "The Man with the Iron Fists" RZA stars and directs. Together with such famous actors like Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu, RZA's feature debut includes such veteran Chinese actors as Kuan Tai Chen, Ka-Yan Leung and Chia Hui Liu (credited as Gordon Liu), the star of, yes, "The 36th Chamber of Shaolin."

Unfortunately, loving something is one thing; making it actually is another. "The Man with the Iron Fists" just doesn't have a good story to tell, and a central character that hold our attention throughout the film's running time. Here RZA plays the titular reluctant hero, a skilled weapon-making blacksmith in the 19th century Chinese "Jungle Village," where warring clans fight over power, money and honor.

But I'd rather not summarize the plot which is slow and pretty dull. To be fair, the martial arts sequences are interesting, being choreographed by Cory Yuen (choreographer of "The Transporter" and many others). The gorgeous production design, with the set made in China, is also impressive.

This is RZA's homage to the 70s exploitation movies including Shaw Brothers kung-fu films. Like Tarantino's "Kill Bill," the film is made with love for the genre, but that is not enough to make a compelling action movie that stands on its own.
1616989
The 3rd film in director Lau Kar Leung's (Legend of the Drunken Master) trilogy about Shaolin monk San Te and his secular school of martial arts, differs from "Return to the 36th Chamber" in that actor Gordon Liu (Kill Bill) comes back to the role of San Te and it's much more of a direct sequel to the original "36th Chamber of Shaolin".  This was also one of the last films for the infamous Shaw Bros. studio and gives the viewer a little insight into why the lucrative-for-decades studio was having problems, as this movie updated fight choreography but just about everything else is embarrassingly dated for the mid-'80s.

After a fun and explanatory fight-based prologue, Hsiao Hou ("My Young Auntie") plays mischievous and proficient kung fu expert Fong Sai Yuk. After getting into some serious trouble with the Manchus, his mother (Lily Li Li, "Shaolin Mantis") and step-father send him and his brothers to the Shaolin Temple to avoid execution and learn discipline from San Te (Liu). The problem is that the grueling training that Shaolin offers is no match for the robusticity of Sai Yuk. He is almost San Te's equal and has plenty of energy after the day's exercises to sneak out and venture into town for more trouble.

If one can pretend that this was made in the late-'70s, it's liabilities decrease significantly and one can just enjoy it as an old-school fu-flick.  It's got some groovy things to offer.  Fans of Gordon Liu may be disappointed that he's not the main character but he's still got plenty of screen time and physically, Hsiao Hou delivers as much grace, agility and effortlessness (see also "Mad Monkey Kung Fu") as anyone, including Yuen Biao. His character is a little annoying and impetuous, but that's what happens when you're that young and that good.  The fights aren't the best anyone has ever seen but are mostly fast & fluid and I like them quite a bit.

This may have been the last Dragon Dynasty release to include Bey Logan's commentary and that is the only special feature.  However, unlike the bootleg copy I endured for years, this has an English dub!  Or English subtitles with original Mandarin language if you prefer.  The picture is also fully remastered by Celestial with their usual gorgeous quality.  I am reluctant to recommend this whole-heartedly but old-school fans should definitely see it, if for no other reason than being a direct sequel to the best kung fu movie ever made.  I rated this at 4.5 stars when I first watched & reviewed it but have a hard time maintaining that praise.  I do still like it and have watced it a handful of times.  3.5 of 5.

1985. aka: Disciples of the Master Killer