Tai-Chi Master

1993
7.2| 1h36m| R| en
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Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.

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Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Payno 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.
callanvass Chin-Bo & Junbao are expelled when Chin-Bo snaps on his opponent for cheating. Despite trying to explain, they get thrown out anyway. Junbao begins to get worried about Chin-Bo's incessant need for power. When Chin-Bo joins the rebellion, Junbao's fears come to life when Chin-Bo betrays Junbao. Ah, wires. I really don't like it when they use them in action movies. I think they look silly and highly unbelievable. I am a firm believer in hand to hand combat. All wires do is increase the spectacle, but I believe that it hinders it, in lieu of augmenting it. This movie is a good story about abusing power and letting greed consume you; however. If you're here to watch a Jet Li film with mind blowing action, you've come to the right place. Despite the usage of wires, some of the fight scenes are truly spectacular. There is some fantastic Tai- Chi in this movie, with Jet Li at his best. For the examples of the fights, check out the fight involving a big stack of logs. Michelle Yeoh kicking some ass, while walking on stilts is pretty bad-ass as well. I have to give credit to some of the rigorous training scenes. A couple of them were really creative. The only other carp about this movie, is that the friendship between Junbao & Chin Bo isn't intense enough. They were friends for 20 years, but I felt they could have been far more intense with it. Junbao (Jet Li) goes through a lengthy shock period, but most of it is done for comedic effect and slapstick. The slapstick is amusing, but it wasn't the proper time for it. The showdown at the end between Junabo & Chin Bo is extremely exciting, but typically one-sided for the most part. Li is solid as usual, delivering in the fight scenes like not many people can. Yeoh is solid as well. This is a pretty entertaining movie, filled with terrific fight scenes. It's so entertaining, that I'm more than willing to give some of the flaws a Mulligan. 7.5/10
WatchedAllMovies This is a review of "Tai Chi Master" starring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.Two shaolin monks grew up together practicing martial arts. One day, they had a fight with the boss of the temple and had to run away. The two monks go into the real world. At first they hang out together, but eventually one of them decided he wants to get rich and powerful, so they split. One guy becomes a vicious general, the other befriends the rebels.Needless to say, eventually they have a showdown and you can probably guess the ending.The plot is typical of this type of movies, which is next to no plot. It's just there so they can have reasons to fight.Unfortunately, they also don't put a lot of thoughts into the fights. Many actions are obviously performed with wire work and look fake. Actually, fake would be a compliment. They're not even trying. I think they have done this so many times the fake actions looks natural to them.I don't know what the fascination with michelle yeoh is. They should switch her character with the better looking female character who died earlier on.I hope some day Hollywood would make a Chinese style martial art movie that has better "fighting physics" to set a higher standard for this type of movies.
stamper This really doesn't amount to anything much. The story of this film is merely OK, the acting is not good, the fights and some of the dialog really make no sense at times and the thing I found most confusing, was whether this was supposed to be an honest film or if it was intended to be some comedic spoof. Regardless of the way you watch Twin Warriors, the film is just not good although I must admit the bad synchronization on part of the American distributor made it worse at times. To me it just felt like a bad Spencer/Hill flick for kids between 8 and 12. Nothing seemed intentionally funny and I was not laughing at the film, but about it (if I was laughing at all).4,5 (with a 4 given upon voting and 0,5 added because the film MUST have bit better in it's original language)
masercot I got this movie for 5.99 at a video rental sale and probably would've never seen it otherwise. I watched it last night, expecting to turn it off in the middle and go to bed. To my surprise, there was no time in the movie that I felt I COULD turn it off. It was simply a fantastic martial arts movie...Think along the lines of a mixture of Gordon Liu's Master Killer, Michelle Yeoh's Wing Chun and The Iron Monkey. There were several SPECTACULAR fight scenes. But, they didn't put the bank roll all on those: Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh made the movie enjoyable between the elaborate melees.I give this movie an eight out of ten for a regular movie and a TEN for a martial arts movie. If I were Joe Bob, I'd say, "Check 'em out"...