Being more of a fan of the Shaw Brothers' 70s output this one fell a little short for me. Of course there are the amazing sets and fights, and you get Gordon Liu playing an ominous bad guy, but I wasn't fond of the comedy bits thrown in, with Alexander Fu Sheng and a voodoo doll, which seemed to spoof earlier kung fu movies. It was also a bit confusing for the first quarter of the movie or so and I really couldn't tell you what was going on until it all settled down and became clear. There sure are a lot of weapons on display here though, which get their own subtitles, so that's something. It's also kind of interesting that the idea for this movie is taken from history where Chinese would practice martial arts in the belief that it would make them impervious to the bullets of invading Westerners. Spoiler alert - it didn't work so well.
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