Nonureva Really Surprised!

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Leofwine_draca RAIDERS OF BUDDHIST KUNG FU is another very poor quality film from director Godfrey Ho, who seems to have taken an old-fashioned South Korean martial arts movie and spliced in his own footage featuring Gordon Liu in a role that amounts to little more than a brief cameo as a villain who goes around looking brooding. The whole production is nonsensical and largely dull, featuring a general lack of coherence and entertainment value for the fans.A lot of films made during this era seem to feature a young guy dressed up as an old master, Simon Yuen style, complete with a bedraggled grey wig, and this movie is no exception. Mike Wong is the hero of the piece, injured by villains but recovering and gunning for revenge. The film is one of those that features inserted shots of a circling hawk replaced by a very obvious dummy for the scenes in which it attacks. This is virtually unintelligible garbage.

winner55 The recent retitled release of this film on DVD isn't very good; they don't even seem to be using the print that was once used for release of tape, but an inferior copy.Many of the old school Hong Kong chop socky films that Americans think are just so bad they're funny, are actually rather good, once the viewer gets what it is the filmmakers themselves think they're doing, and what audience they think they are doing it for. But that is not the case here. This really is so bad it's funny. Cardboard characters portrayed by hammy actors; unconnected scenes strung together for no apparent rhyme or reason; absurd stereotypes like the slavering hunchbacked would-be rapist; dialog that seems to have been copied off a bubblegum wrapper by a scribe on acid; cheesy special effects (like the trained "hawk" that is clearly stuffed and hanging from a wire); yep, this film has it all.It must be said that fight scenes are pretty good; nonetheless, even in these one finds reason to chuckle. During a duel with staffs, the bad-guy knocks the good-guy's staff away, then steps away to boasts "At the long-staff I am the master!' Then he - throws his staff away! Heck, how dumb can a fighter get? If you have a weapon for which your opponent has no defense, the first thing you do is get rid of it?! The film has tens of little bits like that, and grand ones too. I'm sure there's a plot here, but i could never figure out what it was. best seen at three in the morning and you're suffering from insomnia and your brain's numb. Whew! from the creative team Joseph lai and Godfrey Ho, of course. Special guest star Gordon Liu, who looks like he's rehearsing for the role of Yul Brynner's corpse - a must see-to-believe, at least once.

arisaema The unwary viewer must endure nearly an hour of an otherwise unintelligible story, which may or may not involve long-lost brothers, cruel kung fu teachers and corrupt leaders, waiting for Gordon Liu, cast as a shiftless and evil royal, to get up from his fancy dias and show the other players a thing or two about martial arts. When the script finally does get around to putting Gordon on his feet, in swoops that stupid bird -- apparently the other member of the cast with any significant athletic ability. For the die-hard collector only -- and then perhaps best used to prop doors or discipline household pets.

TommyBoy (supermonkeychan) Well I'd have to say that I do own this film and I only like the ending. The movie is boring and slow but the final fight is so funny. Lets just say that if the fake bird didn't attack the main evil guy this movie would be a 0 out of 10. The bird though makes it a 3. If you are truly bored or want something terrible to watch rent this and fast forward to the final battle.