Ninja Checkmate
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Movie Reviews of Ninja Checkmate
Movie Review: overrating MY ASS!
Summary: 5 Stars
Overrated is NOT A WORD in my FACT! God! Everytime something
good comes out, you parasites always has to label it as
OVERRATED! Grow up! This movie is one of the best kung fu films
ever made! The fights scenes are excellent! This beats out any
Yuen Wo Ping's or Jackie Chan's or Sammo Hung's films! I'm
shocked that Joseph Kuo didn't go on to greatness like John Woo
or Jackie did! Well, I assume what kill Joseph Kuo's career is
Ninja Kids (aka.. Ninja Death aka.. Venom of the Ninja)! It was
ritualistic for any film actor or film maker that if you did a
ninja film then you're career will end! Well at any rate, next
to 7 Grand Masters, this is Joseph Kuo's best film! WHO NEEDS AN
EPIC STORY!?! This isn't a stupid Shaw Brothers film!
IN CONCLUSION: For those who felt my review wasn't helpful, kill
yourselfs cuz my opinions are facts your exsistence is flawed!
Movie Review: AKA 'Mystery Of Chess Boxing'
Summary: 5 Stars
Tai Seng indicates on their website that this film is 'Mystery of Chess Boxing'. A film that features Mark Long as the Ghost-Faced Killer, MOCB also has some great acrobatics courtesy of Long's brother Jack, and the lead Li Yi Min. The basic premise of the story is that the Ghost Faced Killer has been going around exacting lethal revenge against a group of men who plotted against him. Li Yi Min's character's father was one of the victims when he was a child. While the story and martial arts aren't as engaging as the other Jack Long, Mark Long, Li Yi Min, and Joseph Kuo film '7 Grandmasters', it's still great fun. Mark Longs repeated round house kicks are a treat to watch.Movie Review: Its got the goods
Summary: 5 Stars
When you sit down to see a good kung fu movie, you expect good fighting, revenge story line and comic relief.... its got all that and more. The talent of the villian is top notch and it's truly a unique film for its blocking of the fight scenes. There are some new styles the pros will enjoy and a little creativity in the training... Notice that this is one of the first (after the real old school) movies to REcapture the flirtatious values of the "hero". Thers's alot about this flick i like.. let me know how you like it! PS the middle fight scene ranks among the best of all time for me!!!! great suff
Movie Review: OLD SCHOOL IN THE PUREST FORM!!
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS IS THE FLICC THAT STARTED IT ALL FOR ME. IT DEFINANTLY HOLDS A SPECIAL SPOT IN MY HEART, LOL. NAH, BUT REALLY, THE DUBBING IS CLASSIC, THE FIGHT SCENES ARE AMAZING, STORY LINE TYPICAL, AND THE ACTING ISNT BAD AT ALL. GHOSTFACE KILLAH IS THE MAN. THE BEST EVIL VILLIAN IN ANY KUNG FU FLICK EVER!! EVER!! HAD IT ON A VHS WHEN I WAS A YOUNGSTER AND ITS THE FIRST KUNG FU FLICC I BOUGHT ON DVD WHEN DVDS FIRST CAME OUT. ANYTHING ELSE WOULD BE UNCIVILIZED...Movie Review: This is a retitled kung fu classic, MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING
Summary: 4 Stars
NINJA CHECKMATE (aka MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING, 1979) is a top-drawer work from Taiwan-based kung fu filmmaker Joseph Kuo (18 BRONZEMEN, SHAOLIN TEMPLE STRIKES BACK). It stars Lee Yi Min (WORLD OF DRUNKEN MASTER) as a kung fu student-in-training and co-stars Jack Long as his main teacher and Mark Long as the feared villain, "Ghost-Face Killer." Simon Yuen, the old "Drunken Master" himself, puts in a cameo as a cook who makes Lee his kitchen apprentice and gives him his first kung fu instruction in a couple of clever (and funny) scenes involving cooking and kitchen work.Lee undergoes plenty of training in this film, eventually studying both chess boxing and "5 Elements" kung fu under Chinese chess master Jack Long (who has a pretty daughter, played by Jeannie Chang). The training scenes are interspersed with fight sequences involving "Ghost-Face Killer" and the various kung fu masters he tracks down and kills as part of an elaborate revenge campaign. Ghost-Face's path leads him eventually to the chess master and his student and a final stretch involving three major kung fu bouts, which all involve chess fighting moves like "Double Horse Attack" and 5 Elements moves like "gold cuts wood" and "earth absorbs water."
The expert fight staging is photographed simply and efficiently in wide angle compositions, giving the performers ample time and space to show their stuff, never once resorting to unnecessary cutaways or camera tricks. MYSTERY OF CHESS BOXING is actually a more appropriate title than NINJA CHECKMATE, since there isn't a ninja in sight. This is easily one of producer-director Kuo's finest films, ranking just below his all-time masterpieces, BORN INVINCIBLE and 7 GRANDMASTERS, both of which also starred Jack Long and Mark Long, while the latter film also starred Lee Yi Min. The name, "Ghostface Killer," was later appropriated by a member of the rap group, Wu Tang Clan, as part of the group's ongoing and deeply felt homage to classic kung fu films.