harosa
09-23-2003, 11:47 PM
I just got the DVD of this movie but it is still playing the festival circuit so I placed this review here. Everyone was hyping the shit out of this movie, and we all know that usually is a death knell for a movie, but I took a chance, even on a DVD without subs and I have to say this movie defies expectations. Simply put, the only movie that comes close to the grittiness and plain craziness of the fighting and intensity of this movie is Drunken Master 2, nothing else. There hasnt been a movie made like this in recent memory that just gets you pumped up as you watch it, i was literally on my feet as I saw every bone crunching move. And for the purists, there is no wire or CG effects in the fighting, hell, there is so much contact made in the fight scenes it felt like I was watching a real fight. Definately hunt this movie down, even without subtitles.