Karate Superman

Bruce Leung is seriously spring loaded and he is on fire in this movie. His jumping kicks are the best I have ever seen. Let me talk about the story real quick and then I will talk more about the action.

James Nam plays a Japanese Colonel who is after a secret Chinese document. Wong Yuen San plays an officer who hires Bruce Leung to keep the document safe. That is really all you need to know. Han Kwok Choi, Meng Hoi and others help Bruce Leung out. Meng Hoi looks like he is about 13 years old. This movie is from 1975 and there are tons of recognizable actors playing the villains. Lee Ka Ting, Chan Lau and Chan Lung all get plenty of screen time. The action never lets up and it gets more and more intense as it goes along. There is a good 40 minutes of fighting and it is all VERY good. The final fight is about 10 minutes long. It is truly one of the best fights I have ever seen. Not recommended if you are prone to seizures. It is insane. There is a lot of screaming, a lot of kicking, and it get pretty bloody. Pure hate. Saying it is intense doesn't even begin to describe it. It is a very brutal fight, and I have never seen anything like it before.

Rating- 10/10 As a movie this only gets like a 6/10, but the fighting gets a 100/100. EASILY one of the best kung fu movies I have ever seen.

It starts with the Japanese army against the Chinese army. The Japanese are invading China and there are some plans that the Chinese need to get. The rest of the story is about spies and secret codes and anything else possible to involve getting these plans. It's pretty much all made up on the day of filming.

Bruce came along at the time the "studio system" of Shaw Brothers was coming to an end. (Though it never ended at Shaw Brothers.) Creative control was being given to actors. Jimmy Wang Yu was the initial driving force in this change and Bruce Lee contributed also. Bruce Leung, though a genius in martial arts choreography, really didn't have all that it takes for total creative control. He didn't even have much acting skills. Nevertheless, he did surround himself with other people capable of getting the job done. You will see many of the same actors and stunt men in his films.

For what this lacks in dialog, plot, consistency and acting, it is still a pleasure to watch for Bruce's martial arts and the martial arts and acrobatics of the other actors.