ironfistedmonk
06-22-2008, 01:24 PM
spoilers
Watched this today and can't believe that Celestial missed this one, it's no Shakespearean effort but in terms of entertainment it's better than a ton of stuff that did get a release, mentioning no names....cough..Dragon Creek zzzzzzzzzz......Flight Man....zzzzz........cough..
The story has a ton of cliches in there such as the old separated in childhood chestnut complete with matching bracelets, the secret kung fu techniques hidden in the weapons and the I'm not really your father you must avenge him plot. None of this becomes really clear until the final 20 odd minutes when all is revealed, leading up to that we get people competing for possession of the titular Lovers Blades and comedy scenes linking together a lot of nicely choreographed action courtesy of Hsu Hsia. The cast is strong with Meng Yuan Man and Hui Ying Hung as the lovers, Yuen Tak and Candy Wen as a bickering couple who are after the swords, Shaws leading fighting bad man Wang Lung Wei and his umbrella death squad and one of my favourite villains Kuan Feng in a good guy role. This film is a lot better then the other Shaw films Meng Yuan Man starred in which somehow did manage to get a Celestial release, I really hope this sees the light of day, maybe an American company could pick this up for a release hint hint :)
Watched this today and can't believe that Celestial missed this one, it's no Shakespearean effort but in terms of entertainment it's better than a ton of stuff that did get a release, mentioning no names....cough..Dragon Creek zzzzzzzzzz......Flight Man....zzzzz........cough..
The story has a ton of cliches in there such as the old separated in childhood chestnut complete with matching bracelets, the secret kung fu techniques hidden in the weapons and the I'm not really your father you must avenge him plot. None of this becomes really clear until the final 20 odd minutes when all is revealed, leading up to that we get people competing for possession of the titular Lovers Blades and comedy scenes linking together a lot of nicely choreographed action courtesy of Hsu Hsia. The cast is strong with Meng Yuan Man and Hui Ying Hung as the lovers, Yuen Tak and Candy Wen as a bickering couple who are after the swords, Shaws leading fighting bad man Wang Lung Wei and his umbrella death squad and one of my favourite villains Kuan Feng in a good guy role. This film is a lot better then the other Shaw films Meng Yuan Man starred in which somehow did manage to get a Celestial release, I really hope this sees the light of day, maybe an American company could pick this up for a release hint hint :)