PodBill Just what I expected

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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

gavin6942 After defeating The Long-Armed Devil and his armies, our nubbed hero has been living in retirement as a farmer, but circumstances causes him to come out of retirement and take on The Eight Kings, each warrior with their own unique fighting style. The time has come for the one armed swordsman to return.Before Chang Cheh was making his "Five Deadly Venoms" films, he was perfecting the wuxia with the One-Armed Swordsman series. Is part two better than the first? Maybe, maybe not. But it is at least as good, with some more solid villains -- including a woman with a thousand blades! The martial arts genre, at least under the direction of Chang Cheh, is interesting in how steady and consistent it remained -- even up through the 1980s, the use of scenery, camera tricks and more remained largely unchanged. But, as they say, if it ain't broke, why fix it?

OneEightNine Media El Rey Network is making me an old kung-fu film junkie. I watched the first one-armed swordsman film last year and loved it. I saw the sequel was on El Rey and I had to give it a look. It continues the story of our hero but this time he has to battle 8 evil bosses, each with their own army and gimmick sword. This sequel is definitely not as good as the original but a fun watch. There are too many bosses and each with their own gimmick and you get pretty bored with it after the 3rd boss or so. The best fight scene isn't even a boss fight, it is right before he fights the final boss, when he is defending his wife from minions as he is exiting a building. One thing I like about this movie is that the One-Armed Swordsman is still a badass and no one can match but somehow his fights are still enjoyable to watch.

poe426 When farmer Fang (Wang Yu, wearing more eyeliner than a hooker) gets an invitation to a "dance" to determine a "King of Swords," he politely declines- but, this being a martial arts movie, backing out isn't an option. Other locals succumb to the merciless "8 Kings" in their quest for universal recognition: even a baby-faced Ti Lung succumbs (to "The Lady of a Thousand Hands"). Fang decides to cast his lot with the locals, but Shen (Chen Hsing) has already taken it upon himself to kidnap Fang's wife in hopes of persuading him to help. Before Fang can find Shen, the 8 Chiefs do- but Fang arrives just in time to kill anybody and everybody he decides is a threat to his wife. Fang, throughout the movie, uses the broken sword he took from his dying father in the first film, laying waste to everything around him. (But, like BLOOD BROTHERS, RETURN OF THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN is at heart a romance... wrapped in martial arts, of course.) At one point, Fang literally takes to the air, spinning spreadeagled like a propeller through a stand of bamboo stalks. Near the end of the movie, Fang's wife, Xiaoman, informs him that there's a little one-armed swordsman on the way (and I don't mean David Chiang).

Johnboy1221 I had seen the first film in this series, as well as the David Chiang movie "The New One-Armed Swordsman", and I wasn't particularly thrilled by either one, to be honest. I left this on the shelf, and that was a big mistake.After finally viewing it, I was stunned. It's far better than the other two films, in every possible way.Return Of The One-Armed Swordsman is everything a Chang Cheh Kung-fu movie should be, colorful, exciting, and full of fighting, fighting, fighting.They use all kinds of weapons in this one, from bamboo sticks to daggers, from swords to bladed disks....and there's even one bad guy who has a magic sword that shoots bullets (or something like them) out of the end of the blade. So cool! If all that weren't enough, this film has an evil femme fatale, who loves men's guts...or stabbing them, anyway.Unfortunately, my copy of the DVD is in Chinese, with Cantonese subtitles that won't change to English, so I guess that it's defective, however I'm keeping it anyway. Even if I don't know who is who and what is what, the action sequences are worth it.If you love Kung-fu movies, you'll love this one.