This comedy kung-fu flick is the first Donnie Yen movie and might also be the only kung fu movie that has a tai chi master train his pupil by playing basketball(with a yin/yang colored ball no less). It's a very cartoonish film with people getting blown-up by explosives and just ending up looking like Elmer Fudd after he gets shot in the face. While I've never been a big fan of Donnie Yen this first role might be my favorite of his starring vehicles. You get puppet-fu, bicycle-fu, the aforementioned Basketball-fu, drunken-fu and fat-lady-fu among other oddball touches. Director Yeun Woo-Ping, probably best known nowadays for his stunt-directing work on KILL BILLand THE MATRIX, does a decent job of keeping the action moving along nicely. Definitely one of the better fu flicks I've seen lately as I work my way through an ominously large box set of similar films.
Apparently there's a Taiwanese cut of this film with a couple of different scenes including one with some chicken-fu!
Weird game of paint your opponent's face:
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