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Monkey/snake fight sequence censored from this DVD release!
jnysen | Sydney, Australia | 04/13/2002
(3 out of 5 stars)
"This is an excellent movie, complete with the required 'plot' thread: student gets beaten and humiliated, student improves his kung-fu, student comes back for some serious ... revenge. The movie itself is worthy of 5 stars, but unfortunately this Xenon Pictures DVD release has removed a crucial scene (and also all the flashbacks to it) where we see a real monkey fight with a live snake. Without this scene, the viewer is likely to be left wondering how on earth the student was able to come up with all his 'winning' moves. As for animal rights activists; prohibiting this sort of scene in newly made titles is one thing, but removing a fundamental plot element from a movie that was made over 20 years ago is absolutely ridiculous!"
Best Snake and Monkey style ever!!!!
Duane Winchester | Fayetteville, North Carolina United States | 05/19/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I have not seen a movie that has emulated the snake and monkey style as good as this movie.The snake in 'deadly venoms' and the monkey in 'seven grandmasters' can't even come close to the performances in this one.Truly a classic as far as animal- imitating kung fu is concerned.
This movie is my favorite and I guarantee any kung fu lover to get their hands on this one."
One of the Top Movies Ever Made
Dean Ira Cox | Indiana | 04/06/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"John Chang plays a worker in a fish market who is it seems very into watching the Drunken Style Kung fu, then gets humiliated by two rich brats and begs the Master of the school to teach him Drunken Style, at first the Master says no but eventually teaches him, he gets his revenge on the two brats but they hire a couple of Snake Experts to kill his Master, he is hurt afterwards and is rescued by his friend a Monkey stylist, who is who the man the Snake experts were after all along, they kill his friend, and he decides to combine the Drunken style with the Monkey Style to get revenge for his friend and Master."
Almost 5 Stars
swellz | NO | 09/22/2003
(3 out of 5 stars)
"the fight scene between the actual monkey and cobra deserves two stars by itself. without that original scene the movie lacks big tyme, if anyone knows where i can get the original movie(un-cut) please hit me at cjmartin7@yahoo.com."
Great Kung Fu Flick Diminished by Censoring
kingmongo | Piedmont, CA United States | 09/12/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is a great kung fu movie; gentle use of wires with some really talented martial artists going with genuine techniques from the styles they represent (monkey, drunken, snake). Really cool, subtle "special effects," too, such as a snake-stylist stripping bark from a tree with his fist, monkey-stylist leaping from tree trunk to tree trunk, etc.Of note, however, is the censoring of a scene with a monkey fighting a cobra; probably removed at the behest of animal rights activists, I would be disgusted if the scene were filmed *today*, but hate to lose such a unique piece of film in a movie twenty years old. Tragically overzealous. The uncut original should be re-released."