Duel to the Death
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Movie Reviews of Duel to the Death
Movie Review: fantastic transfer on this little known flick
Summary: 4 Stars
Wow is all I can say. After years of dealing with kung-fu on crappy pan and scan VHS and letterbox format DVD's, this edition is a rare treat. First off it's a fully anamorphic transfer, meaning it will preserve it's original aspect ratio on widescreen televisions. It looks fantastic on my Samsung widescreen HDTV. The colors are rich and vibrant, making the film look better than it probably ever has. The fact that Fox and Fortune Star took such care in transferring a fairly unknown kung-fu film warms my heart. Lest I forget the DTS soundtrack which actually offers a noticed separation instead of a generic Pro Logic sound, unlike nearly every other "digitally restored" DVD coming out these days. The inclusion of the original trailer and original Cantonese soundtrack are like a buying a donut that comes with a refill of jelly.The story is fantastic too. There are all kinds of ninjas! Kite ninjas, vanishing ninjas, even naked foxy ninjas! The score is very effective as well. A lot of older kung-fu flicks either have no score or a scattershot one at best. This movie has a pronounced heroic theme that's quite catchy.
This kind of treatment should be given to more kung-fu films.
Movie Review: Worth watching even with some flaws!
Summary: 3 Stars
I could not decide whether or not I liked this movie, so I decided to watch again. After watching for the second time, I have decided that I am stuck in the middle with this movie, there were some parts in the movie that just didn't make any sense to me. Here are the parts that I did not particulary liked:
1. Shaolin monks were supposed to be among the best fighters. So, the part where a monk was walking with a Japanese guy and they ended up fighting one another for a very short time. The fighting techics were not very impressive, and what the monk said something like "let's not fight each other, let the young ones fight for us", was a little annoying. I would have liked to see some impressive moves by the Shaolin monk.
2. I was hoping that this film would be more like The Crane-Snake Secret or The Super Stars movies. You'll see some impressive hand to hand along with some different weapons being used in those movies. In this Duel to the Death movie, the film relyed too much on the special affects. You see so many characters fighting in mid air while flyin around, you just won't see what they could actually do without the special affects. Also, the lot of the fight scenes were not on very long at all. I felt like the film rushed through lot of the fight scenes.
3. The Chinese guy and the Chinese girl had a little love interest in each other, but the Japense guy did not have a girl, so I felt a little bad for him.
4. When the Japense guy found out that he's own people used him, so when he decided to ignore the order to kill himself, then when why did he went on and want to fight the Chinese guy when the Chinese guy did not want to battle him anymore. Japenese guy could easier have decided to not to fight the Chinese guy, but he was so into following he's samuri code of honor which did not make any sense to me.
5. Very end, you still won't see any impressive marshall arts moes when you watch them dueling eachother at the very end. They flew around the air a lot and did lot of sword fighting.
6. I don't think the Chinese guy wore diffrent color outfits like the Japense guy did. I would have liked to see what other kind of outfits men back then wore.
Here are things that I liked about the movie:
1. The kite scene. This is where you will see some impressive hand to hand combat moves.
2. The beautiful sceneries.
Movie Review: Expecting More, but still enjoyed the Movie !
Summary: 3 Stars
From seeing the trailer on other movies, and some of the reviews here on Amazon, I was expecting a great Martial Arts movie. I did enjoy the movie and some of the martial arts scenes, but there seems to be some major gaps in this 1993 version of the film I have. The editing is horrible. There has to be some scenes that were left out!
The basic plot is that every year the best swordsman from Japan and China meet in a battle at a Temple in China. Both of the main actors are very good, and there final battle is pretty cool, but I wished it lasted longer. In between there is a subplot of ninjas who are trying to kidnap the best martial artists of China.
Some of the fight scenes are cool, but they are also very choppy. In one scene, you can blatantly still see the wires holding up the actors. It is 2007, those wires should be zapped out with computer tech.
The ending is horrible! I thought, "that is it?"... there was so much promise!
A good movie, but I am not sure why it is on some people's list of Top 10 Martial Arts movies?
Movie Review: Old "skool" Kung Fu!!
Summary: 3 Stars
This flick was just o.k for me,,,I'm not one to enjoy kung fu where the dudes fly through the air like birds,,aswell,,I'm not too into swords play,,that killed it for me. The story however, was great,,the fight scenes nicely choreographed. However, don't think I would re-visit this one,,,for me it's just a one time watch!!Movie Review: DON'T BUY THE FOX VERSION!!! IT'S SUCK'S!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
MAN! Im soo ashamed. The FOX version says that the movie is "Digitally Remastered" and it's true, but what they DON'T tell you is that they RUINED the sound effect synchronization!!!!!!!
All the sound effects are heard before the action. If you can tolerate this GREAT mistake then you can enjoy this movie, but if you don't, then stick with the original chinese version.
P.S: I gave this movie 2 stars because of the dvd quality, but the film itself is a FAST CrAzY ACTION MASTERPIECE!!! It's a shame that FOX didn't saw it that way.
Adios.