Plot summary
Rural kung fu whiz Qiang travels to the big city to visit his friend Lung, who's taken up Xanda, a new martial art that fuses multiple styles. When Lung is grievously wounded by the Xanda champ, Qiang trains in the sport to seek revenge in the ring.
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Rocky type film
Boxing movie Chinese style
I picked this up from a flea market for three reasons: 1. Asian movies aren't the most commond find around here, 2. it was cheap, and 3. IT'S MARTIAL ARTS, MAN!!
The box description led me to expect something scary brutal, like heads flying in the ring... but the movie was actually quite tame. Especially in the beginning there's a lot of humour. I suppose that's a tradition in Chinese kung fu movies, that there is fighting but also funny moments. Towards the end the movie gets a little more intense because there's more fighting. The thing I liked the most was that the fighting scenes were very nicely shot, with a lot of cool camera angles. The kind of material that would be perfect in a music video!
As a whole the film seemed a bit unmemorable to me. Nothing really special about it. If you like movies with boxing or other fighting sport in the ring, then you will probably enjoy it to some extent. But if you miss it, you won't miss really that much.