Cliff Lok decides to open a karate school even though he apparently
only has one student. The rival schools
don’t like the fact that a newbie can open his own school on a whim, so they try
to kick his ass. Naturally, he mops the
floor with them and earns the respect of nearly all the schools. One upstart student from a rival school,
still smarting from defeat, comes after Lok’s student, which sends him on a
quest for revenge.
The plot is an old hat and while the action is plentiful,
it’s not exactly jaw-dropping stuff. Many
of the fight sequences go on too long and since the stunt work and choreography
is uninspired, they have a tendency to get repetitive. It’s never boring though, so there’s that.
We also get a handful funny moments, like when a Kung Fu
master uses his patented “Duck Style” (complete with poorly dubbed-in quacks),
but the film is more successful at getting laughs from its soundtrack
cues. It blatantly steals the Rocky
theme for one of the training montages and one scene reuses Goblin’s score from
Dawn of the Dead. I know I’ve always
said, “If you're going to steal from someone, steal from the best”, but this is
a little ridiculous.
An evil Kung Fu master gets the best line of the movie when
he says, “Today, we’re going to piss on your spirits!”
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