Here’s yet another Kung Fu comedy set in the Drunken Master
mold. This one at least has the novelty
of taking place in modern day. It also
has a few laughs too.
Our hero is a bartender who uses his Kung Fu prowess to skillfully avoid
traffic while skateboarding to work. He
also uses his Kung Fu abilities to help him tend bar, which gets him into
trouble with a couple of rowdy customers.
He later gets an old karate master to train him so he can steal a vest
full of money so he can put his girlfriend through college.
The Kung Fu Warrior starts off well enough, but the laughs
slowly dry up as it goes along. The action
is decent for the most part. I liked the
scene in which the Kung Fu master beat up some thugs while protecting his pet
bird. It’s just a shame that the training
scenes are mostly a bust. (Our hero basically
spends all his time on a swing.)
The film also suffers from some weird shifts in tone. I mean did we really need the long scene
where the Kung Fu master tries to take out a loan? That’s not the sort of thing that energizes
your silly Kung Fu comedy.
Once the plot about retrieving the vest made of money rears
its head, it’s all goes downhill from there.
There is one pretty good scene in the end where our hero kicks a guy’s
butt using his skateboard though. Whenever
he’s off his board, the movie is strictly routine.
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