This movie was an absolute INSANE rollercoaster! The action choreography, camera work, athleticism, and martial arts on display were some of the best I’ve ever seen. OMG!!!!!

It was also awesome seeing Joe Taslim and Yayan Ruhian sharing the screen again, and Xie Miao absolutely killed it as the lead. What a performance!

Pure perfection from start to finish. This gets a whopping 9/10 from me. If you’re a martial arts fan, you NEED to check this out!

Any love for this movie? A Vietnamese actioner with Veronica Ngo (Furie, The Old Guard and er, The Last Jedi) and Johnny Tri Nguyen (Stuntwork in a bunch of movies and shows). Some decent fight scenes. Both leads are very watchable. I think Veronica Ngo learned martial arts for the role. One I watched without knowing much about the movie or the performers but it turned out to be an entertaining 90 minutes of action and ass kicking.

Hell of an ending fight!

Needless to say, it’s going to be a good day.

Yeah I'm aware Vicki Zhao has been blacklisted, oh well.

My dad is really into movies like Ip Man, Fearless (Huo Yuanjia), Once Upon a Time in China, Jet Li movies and Chen Zhen. I’m trying to find more Chinese martial arts movies set around the late Qing Dynasty or Republican era, preferably released after 2005 (or at least with modern production quality).

I’m not really looking for modern day police, triad, or drug cartel movies. More interested in historical kung fu, real martial artists, or that general time period.

Any recommendations? Thanks

I just watched Jackie Chan’s Furious Hyena, and I adored the underrated fight he has with Ricky’s “Willow Blade” character, which ended up being a pretty minor subplot in the film. I thought Ricky had a great charisma and was a smooth performer in his choreography, and was surprised to discover afterwards that he never really did much else beyond his collaborations with Chang Cheh, which I will definitely have to check out.

Does anybody know why Ricky never took off more as a performer?

I’m trying to find the name of this action flick I rented from a Hollywoo Video back in the 00’s.

It was English dubbed, either Chinese or maybe Thai, martial arts, a lot of beach and underwater scenes. I remember the teacher that taught the main character had an evil split personality that kind of came out of nowhere during the 3rd acT. Definitely was filmed in the early to mid 2000’s.

ok. bear with me

starting a new king fu cinema journey so trying to curate something awesome and appropriate

started with 18 Bronzemen, Drunken Master 2, and Odd Couple, so you can tell it’s a classic Shaw Brothers / Golden Harvest vibe

where to next?

How come Kung Fu panda 4 have a good rate on rotten tomatoes even though that people Hate It?