Post by RedKing on Sept 14, 2006 7:42:27 GMT -8
I watched this disc the other night and it was pretty good. Directed by Joseph Kuo with cheoreography by Yuen Woo Ping and starring Carter Wong as the psychotic white haired invincible Tai-Chi villian and featuring a wonderfully bad dub by the usual "But still and Damn you" suspects. This was an indepent or small studio film, made by Hong Hwa Company(the disc has the studios's logo at the film's opening). In this movie Tai Chi is presented as a sort of mystical art that makes the practioneer into a demonic supoervillian with white hair, a high pitched voice and a body that is invunerable to weapons and hand to hand attacks. the weak spot of the body can be moved at will as well. The plot gets underway as an old man and his daughter are being pursued by two killers and stumble into a group of students from a local kung-fu school out practicing. Of course the students aid the old man and a feud develops between the school and the killers bosses, one of whom is Carter Wong. The dubbing is hilariously bad(in a good way, of course) but the fight scenes are quite excellent and they are plentiful and varied in style including alot of hand to hand, weapons as well as goofy stuff like one guy who can spit iron balls from his mouth like a human cannon!In the end Carter Wong's invincible Tai-Chi Master is the last villian standing and the good guys have to figure out where his weak spot is hidden, which they finally do-his throat, but it's only vunerable when he laughs . They trick him into laughing and a quick dagger toss finishes him off and honor is restored to the school at last! The dvd is actually pretty good. The copy of the movie is fullscreen, but the print is not bad at all, the color is nice and vibrant, though it looks like it was sourced from a good VHS. There's also quite a lot of bonus material-two bonus fight scenes from other Carter Wong films as well as the actual Chinese language trailer for BORN INVINCIBLE itself! Brief bios for Carter Wong, Director Joeseph Kuo, Yuen Woo Ping and 2 or 3 of the other actors are also included! They are quite informative as I didn't know Carter Wong was in BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA!