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Great Classic Kung Fu

Kung Fu Fanatic | Indiana | 11/27/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This Collection contains three movies



The first "Adventure for Imperial Treasures" stars Wang Tao

as Lee Shou Ching the son of an architect Lee Lin who in turn is the last person still alive with the knowledge of the wherabouts

of a huge treasure. Years earlier Lee Lin escaped death at the

hands of an evil master named Feng Kei. Feng Kei and his men

eventually find and kill Lee Lin though - which sends Lee Shou

Ching on a mission of revenge - First learning beggar fist from

a helpful beggar then learning secret kung fu techniques from a

monk all the while looking for his lost sister and knowing that

a showdown with Feng Kei is inevitable. very good 4 star movie

In my opinion.





The second movie is "Fatal Flying Guillotines" starring Chen Sing

and Carter Wong. Chen Sing plays a kung fu expert Wu who has

mastered the Guillotines - he became ill when young and had to

abandon his wife and son. He becomes sort of an evil recluse in

a vaporous valley - while being courted to work for an evil

prince and being hunted down by monks. Carter Wong plays his

son- who was never told his fathers name and goes into action

against the old man after being given a false cure for his mother

(which results in her death). A solid movie but I did not enjoy

as much as the other two. A solid 3-4 star movie in my opinion.





Movie 3 is "Instant Kung Fu Man" starring Hwang Jang Lee and John Liu among others. This movie is a tale of two brothers

twins Hsiao Fu(a somewhat evil kung fu master and criminal) and

his bumbling but intelligent brother Hsiao Hu (knows very little

kung fu and is the opposite of his brother) Hsiao Fu sends his

brother Hsiao Hu to the Shaolin temple to learn kung fu.

Hsiao Hu after three years has not learned anything so he tricks

the monks into letting him leave - the monks discover his trickery and send a top monk John Liu to bring him back.

Hsiao Hu gets into all kinds of trouble and has to constantly

pose as his brother - which in turn gets his brothers enemy

played by Hwang Jang Lee on his trail and leads to an eventual

showdown. a Very Good 4-5 star movie in my opinion. I especially

enjoyed the fight scenes which pitted John Liu against Hwang

Jang Lee(two of the best leg fighters in Kung Fu Movie history).





Overall a very good three movie set and much better than the

vol.2 collection of the same name.

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