The Master Strikes

Starring:Master Strikes
Studio: Crash Cinema Media
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Typical Wutang release
VERY GOOD MOVIE BUT IT WAS LACKING SOMETHING
What do you expect?
Nothing Fatal about this DVD except....

18 Fatal Strikes
Starring: Shih Tien , Stephen Tung Wai , Dean Shek , Tung Wei , and Wen Chiang Lung
Director: Yeung Jing Chan
Manufacturer: Ground Zero
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000059H7F
Release Date: 2001-02-27

Description

Classic ninja movie hosted by the hip hop group Wu Tang Clan. Features a video by Wu Tang Clan

Customer Reviews:

Typical Wutang release.......2006-09-14

Now my rating may have been a 3 but the film was horribly presented. The movie I would give a 2.5/5 at best but only for the Shaking Eagle.

It starts out with the government looking to kill this monk. Of course their top fighter is the Shaking Eagle. With all types of swooshing sounds and hoooooooooo-waaaaaaaaaahhhhh's to distract you, this guy still has some awsesome kung fu. So the monk that the eagle is looking for gets away and Dean Shek(comedic teacher in Drunken Master and Snake In Eagle's Shadow) and Steve Tung Wei find and cure him. So FINALLY the 2 start to learn the monks styles and of course they look for revenge. The story was oh so dreary and the acting of Tung Wei was pretty bad, nowhere near a Bruce Liang of course, but let me talk about the finer points of this movie because there certainly were some.

We get to see Dean Shek in a different kind of role. Sure we know him for comedy and he displays that but we also get to see him as an actor, and a very good one he is. Also on dispay are his kung fu skills and while he could NEVER carry the movie as a hero, he is still a good fighter. And then of course we have the Shaking Eagle. The kung fu was standard at best all the way through, but the final fight is fun and bloody at the same time and way over the top. Can Tung Wei kill the invincible Shaking Eagle?

The special features include an intro where the RZA points out that Sammo and Tung Wei choreographed this movie and the fact that Tung Wei is the name of the kung fu system in Taiwan. Trailers of other wutang releases and a bonus fight of Tung Wei from the movie that Rarescope just released with Don Wong Tao: Along Comes a Tiger.

Picture quality is horrible but still watchable and we actually miss part of a good Dean Shek fight because I think RZA accidentally paused it and didn't notice for a few seconds. The sound is not very good but I am all too used to that. Certainly not the worst sound quality.

VERY GOOD MOVIE BUT IT WAS LACKING SOMETHING.......2006-05-31

ive gotten reports that this was made in 1981 at 1st and then i got reports that it was made in 1978. this movie stars stephen tung wei, shih tien (a funny cat indeed), underrated villain the shaking eagle (who gives a mesmerizing performance). the fight scenes was very good, the story is typical regular martial arts storyline. the comedy is pretty hilarious but it was lacking more fight scenes indeed. the dvd features are great i give that a 3 with a off the meatrack intro from the rza. the picture quality is decent, sound is terrible because i have to turn it all the way up and the vhs version is probably better believe it or not. but do pick this one up for sure. it is a classic for a low budget film

What do you expect?.......2002-01-19

This is about what you would expect from a 1981 low budget film. The story is lacking a bit and the comedy is lousy. The fighting is good, which makes it worth buying. I was disappointed with the audio/video quality. One channel of the audio is out of phase with the other which makes it hard to hear. By flipping the + & - wires on the back of one of the speakers fixes it. The video looks like RZA hooked up his K-mart blue light special VCR to a DVD burner and hit record. This movie is obviously aimed at Wu-tang clan fans, but it's worth checking out if you're a Kung-fu buff.

Nothing Fatal about this DVD except...........2001-06-12

Errors...

This DVD has the worst sound quality that you can imagine. I had to turn up the volume to 64 just to hear it. Then the picture freezes until the DVD skips chapters and shuts off. Its too bad as this is a classic that even though has a very bad storyline with bad comedy should still be in the collectors stock.

Customer Reviews:

Some of the best fight choreography ever filmed!.......2007-06-03

Cassanova Wong stars as a man who runs his own escort service and goes insane when he loses a valuable jade horse. Yen Shi-kwan hired him for the job, but then doublecrosses him. The story is bad with unbearable comedy at times, so there are only 3 things to talk about that are worth going over.

#1- In the first major fight Cassanova Wong puts on a great kicking display in a restaurant.

#2- Eddy Ko has a good fight with Yen Shi-kwan.

#3- The finale is one of the best fight scenes in cinema history. So obviously it gets bonus points for that. Yen Shi-kwan is just on a totally different level. Only a few guys can match how deadly and fluent his movements are.

3.5/5

Crash Cinema DVD has good picture quality.

Makes Jackie Chan's old "kung-fu comedies" look high-brow!.......2004-12-25

...But wow, the fight choreography! The action is VERY good in this film, and I laughed at Casanova Wong's "kung-fu master gone nuts" character a few times in spite of myself. THE MASTER STRIKES is full of familiar faces: besides Wong, there's Yen Shi-kwan, the villain from FEARLESS HYENA; the hero from the obscure DAGGERS 8; and even Eddy Kao Hung(who popped up in numerous early-to-mid-seventies chop-socky flicks). It's also fun to count how many times the same extra plays a different character in this film ;)
If you like kung-fu movies in the old style, you won't be disappointed in THE MASTER STRIKES.

is it worth the time or money...NO.......2004-09-25

this movie has a couple of saving graces: the subtitles translations are quite ridiculious, and also the "pole fighting". i swear to god this has the best pole fighting action ive ever seen (and i have seen a lot). yet the characters are annoying and after a while one may become frustrated at watching them. (Action good =30 mins) rest of the movie is just pure filler. the movie as i remember it was long as hell so that 30 minutes may not even be worth the whole experience.

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