Kung Fu Killer
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Movie Reviews of Kung Fu Killer
Movie Review: NOT CARRADINE`S BEST
Summary: 3 Stars
If you like martial arts and David Carradine, this is a good movie, but it`s not one of Carradine`s best. Unlike the Kung Fu t.v. series (both of them), The Silent Flute or even Son of the Dragon, this movie is a little "dark", definately blood spurtingly violent and lacks the spiritual/philosophical link to the martial arts that we associate with Carradine. Still, it IS Carradine, and that makes it worth seeing.Movie Review: Just the title alone should make you wary!
Summary: 1 Stars
(1.) Martial arts scenes, techniques and schools were poorly represented & performed. Too much reliance on obvious blood filled capsules for the mouth and bullets. The breaking prosthetic limbs and poorly created decapitated heads had a laughable effect. The wholly inadequate filming angles and editing made Carradine's lack of skills look even slower and older. Not in the same ballpark/planet as anything Lee, Chan, Li, or Crouching Tiger..., Hero, House of Flying Daggers.
(2.) The low budget of this film was most obvious when initially we are shown a small number of bad guys but when the battles begin it seems as if that number has tripled or even become endless as they are mown down in order to prolong the attention-getting action scenes. Yet when the final scene shows the field of battle the body count adds up to less than what we were first shown. May I suggest some remedial math for the director.
(3.) Daryl Hannah - no point to her role in the movie, in fact you could have erased her scenes and the movie would have moved forward with better fluidity. Her acting was so terrible I was actually feeling sorry for her. Carradine's was not much better.
(4.) Overall the story line was old and tired and disjointed, e.g. some wealthy Singaporean wants to conquer all of China with a poisonous gas he creates in his basement and meanwhile the superpowers of Europe with all their labs and resources were having problems producing the same warfare gas.
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