Good Film On A Poor DVD.

drunkenmaster from , 16th April, 2008

This Taiwanese kung fu film from the late seventies is directed by Wu Ma who brings together ex Shaw Brothers top southern fist martial arts star Chi Kuan-chun with northern kicker Dorian Tan for an entertaining tale of revenge. The plot is paper thin, but the action is of the highest order, entertainingly choreographed by Cheung Pang. Even the support cast get some nice moments of action. Sadly the DVD quality of this Rarescope release is dire with bleached colours, scratches and jumps and burnt in subs that are very hard to read most of the time. Well worth watching for the action despite the faults, it is just a shame that this print has deteriorated to the point where this official release looks like a poor quality bootleg.

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I'm a kung fu movie fanatic but please!

A Customer from London, 16th March, 2006

Where do I start. After viewing this I decided to have a look at the packaging in the HMV. There's a disclaimer that says something like, 'Due to the rarety of this movie the quality of the print may suffer'. Boy oh boy are they ever right. The print is so washed out it almost appears black and white. The opening five minutes of the film is in such bad condition that you can't make head nor tail of the story and there's more snow on it than the Gross Glockner in the down hill season. I watched the whole thing in fast forward hoping that the odd glimpse of Tan Tao Liang might save it. Sadly even the great boot master himself couldn't make me take my finger off the FF button.

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