Yao's Young Warriors

Starring:Black Dragon Collection
Studio: Crash Cinema Media
Product Type: DVD

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A good release from Crash Cinema of an historically based mainland Chinese martial arts movie

Yao's Young Warriors
Starring: Black Dragon Collection
Manufacturer: Crash Cinema Media
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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A good release from Crash Cinema of an historically based mainland Chinese martial arts movie.......2007-02-04

'Yao's Young Warriors' is a mainland Chinese costume adventure that takes place towards the end of the Sung Dynasty. It tells the story of General Yao who would not yield to the Chin forces and holds out at a mountain. They are in a position where the Chin forces can't get to them without heavy loss. They plan to kidnap Yao's mother to get him and his small army to surrender. This is the set up given at the beginning at the movie. While the grandmother is a character in the movie, you will have to forget about General Yao. He does not appear again.

The movie starts out with a dark skinned young man who comes to warn Yao's 5 sons of the attack on their father. They plan their own attack and this becomes the plot for the movie.

The story is all kinds of fun with good light hearted comedy and some great fight scenes. The first fight involves fighting one to one on horses. It reminded me a bit of King Arthur and is a very unique fight scene but the action actually gets better from there. Whoever the director of this is does a great job of intertwining kung fu into the story. The story is engaging and helps make this a very good movie. It doesn't come to a close answering all the questions you might have but for a 90 minute movie, there is a ton of action and they do sacrifice giving you a more thorough story in order to show you all these action scenes. I don't want to explain the story because it is better for it to just unfold in front of you. It tries to be an epic movie and while it fails in that, it was great to see all of the colorful costumes and the attempt for it to be a true epic did add excitement.

All of the actors are highly skilled Wushu performers and the action is very good. They save the best for last and the final fight is outstanding. The 5 brothers take on 3 cousins of the eldest prince and a son of a general who have come to support the Chin troops. The prince is the main villian but doesn't do a lot of fighting but these 4 all specialize in special skills like iron head technique, eagle claw, a pole, and a rope dart. The Yao sons all specialize in spear techniques and it makes for a suberb finale.

I would recommend this movie to anyone who liked mainland movies like 'Undaunted Wudang', 'Ahrats in Fury', and 'Secret of Tai Chi'. I didn't find it quite as good as those but the difference is that while this movie has all the great action scenes you expect, 'Yao's Young Warriors' is a very extravagant project and really feels bigger than it is.

The picture is presented in widescreen. Letterboxed! Picture quality is very good though it has some noticeable print damage. This is part of the Venom Mobs series but it has MUCH better picture quality and presentation than the other movies in the Venom Mobs Black Dragon Collection. I don't know what happened to Crash Cinema and why they would allow theselves to put out so many horrible presented kung fu movies but I have heard that they will be releasing many very rare movies in the near future. We will just have to wait and see what happens with them. Hopefully good things. I will keep my fingers crossed.

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