Tai Chi Master
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Actor: Billy Chow, Jacky WuDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Cantonese (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Tai Seng
Movie Reviews of Tai Chi Master
Movie Review: One to definitely pick up for martial arts movie fans!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, a real jewel! Be warned though, this is not 'a movie' per se, but a set of scenes chopped out of a chinese TV series and put together. Tai Seng has done this before for two Donnie Yen TV series but this time the commercial trick actually works: plot can be followed rather well and there is tons of action and actually some nice acting.
The coolest thing was the fighting, heck it's a series directed by seminal Yuen Woo Ping! Lots of long shots and a well made version of Game of Death pagoda fight, where Wu Jing rises floors and beats master fighters in each floor. Jackie Wu Jing is so awesome and the opponents kicked butt as well. Felt like a remake of Tai Chi 2 made in, but with fights done BETTER than most Yuen Woo ingP movies of similar style I can remember. And this comes from a big YWP fan. Even the sound effects rocked with big bass ála The Fearless spicing most impact shots. Tons of cool (and wired) stunt falls with people flying all over all the time; always entertaining to see. Camerawork was phenomenal and doubling was done very well. Insane overall quality fight scene wise, at least for me. The best fights definitely catched the notion of 'drama' in aristotelian wise.
But my points go to the damocle's sword fight (the first one with tai chi masta), which is felt one of the most exciting fights I've seen in years, perhaps ever. Tons of intricate taichi, joint locking, long shots and sword interaction. A spectacle if I've ever saw one. A diamond of a match that lacks only in that it had in a couple of reused moves and rather 'normal' ending. Iron Monkey meets, hell, Damoclee battle opera!
Wu Jing acts mostly a goofy yet a ethical boy, a role which seems to fit him exceptionally well here. Not a much of killing in the film either, reminds in that sense old Lau Kar Leung films. The mood is entertaining.
Sadly, no extras for such a brilliant chopjob. Just 5 trailers for a couple of similar films and three for similar TV series chopjobs Tai Seng seems to like doing. With this one I could't recommend this move enough. Yet I'd still would like to see the original series, the plot wasn't a bad one at all. Yet the fighting was absolutely phenomenal and a tribute to people like actors Billy Chow and Wu Jing and of course, the mastermind Yuen Woo Ping. Pick this one now, as local Hong Kong films like Fatal Contact are starting to make Jackie Wu Jing the next major martial arts movie star.
Oh and in case you were wondering, Tai Chi looks absolutely brilliant on the screen when it's done as well as this. Which I think is not going to happen anytime soon.
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