Confession
Time: It was hard to tell what the hell
was going on half the time in The Beggar of No Equal because the subtitles were
often completely unreadable. The
horribly cropped transfer cut off about half the words on the screen. If a line of dialogue was more than five
words long, I was shit out of luck. To
make matters worse, the subtitles themselves were often blurry and hard to make
out. At least the litany of misspelled
words was sometimes good for a laugh. (“Dame you!")
The plot, as much as I could surmise, focused on a shirtless guy whose job was
protecting a sacred book of herbs. Meanwhile,
a badass government official goes around kicking the asses of townsfolk who
don't cotton to the king’s rules, which admittedly are pretty bullshit and are
mostly made up just so this guy can kick their ass. Anyway, this cute Kung Fu fighter enters the
fray and beats the snot out of a lot of people.
It was here where things started getting a little hazy. The shitty subtitles were mostly to blame, but
I admittedly started zoning out halfway through because I started losing track
of the plot. There is a decent plot
twist at the end though. It might have
had some impact if I knew what was going on for the half-hour or so before that.
Because
of subtitle snafu, the only way to really grade The Beggar of No Equal is on
the Kung Fu action. Sadly, the fight
sequences don’t occur often enough to make up for the unintelligible plot. In general, the fight scenes were okay. They’re definitely nothing you haven’t seen
before. Then again, the cropping is so
bad that you sometimes can’t even see who the hero is fighting.
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