Dartkick

Hey, I've seen my share of kung-fu garbage, and this film is something I wasted a good boring Monday night on. Expectingly nothing but garbage, I just popped in the tape and thought I'd just let it run. To tell the truth, it's surprisingly decent. Bruce Li is no Bruce Lee, but he's certainly the best of the imitators, and this film is one of his better moments.

Another of those bad-yet-enjoyable films. Worthwhile if you're a kung-fu / Bruce Lee fan though.

7 / 10

Yep. This is it, the one and only "The Legend". When I think of stupid movies, this is usually one of the first to come to mind (if not the first). Of course, I'm refering to the hacked up dubbed American version. There's no possible way that the original sucked THAT much, but the American version... That's another story.

First of all, the martial arts in the movie were well done. The story was okay, and the movie overall was quite entertaining. But the dialogue.. and the voice acting... and that horrible HORRIBLE climax...

Ugh, where do I start?

Okay, I'll start with something you'd expect to be a slight annoyance, nothing big: Jet Li's voice. What the hell were they thinking?! He sounds like a ten year old. And his voice actor must have caught his vocal cords in a tractor or something, because I have never heard worse voice acting... like, EVER. My favorite line was "Hey mom! I met the most beautiful girl today, oh her eyes!" Sadness.

But I must say that the funniest thing by far were the horrible horrible dummies they used. Particularily the ones in the scene where Jet Li has the rope that's on fire, and in the climax. Watch these in slow motion and check out those dummies... sadness

All and all, when it really comes down to it, this movie was stupid. If you're in the mood for a movie like this that doesn't horribly suck, rent the first Wong Fei Hung movie ("Once Upon a Time in China"). It's funky as hell. But this thing was just absolutely stupid. Especially the climax.. <shu dder>