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Seriously this movie is amazing! Great story line with a surprise at the end and no sugar coating. It's a gritty action movie that delivers like very few can!!! Only cheesy part was rocky music but other than that? Stars on every level!

I was really disappointed when the so called new *uncut* release arrived yesterday, There was a jump cut to the third killer where you don't even see him being killed.. And the end fight was still cut. what the DVD company did was to add the full screen uncut sequence following the last fight. The print seemed to be slightly cropped and taken from a video source. I was looking forward to seeing this film in its original glory but loving martial art movies cuts to the the fight scenes are expected..... seen the movie once and will hope a proper release will pop up before i watch the film again.. This is my first ever review and i hope i did okay.

I was expecting a more lightheaded attempt to cash in the blaxsploitation genre, but the black actor is a lesser character. So pay no mind to the title, Soul Brothers Of Kung Fu. This film is serious as a heart attack and quite dark. This film is about brothers that end up going against each other and is set in the grimy Hong Kong underworld. This predates A Better Tomorrow by almost a decade, but all the action is Kung Fu style and there is a lot of it. The story is choppy and poorly edited, but most viewers should be satisfied with the awesome fight scenes contained within. The film is a little different for star Bruce Li, but shows his strength as a leading man and while he may have been billed as a Bruce Lee imitator, he is the best of them. Bruce Li was in phenomenal shape and possessed some excellent fighting skills. Shaw Brothers star Lo Meng is the brother gone bad that Bruce Li must square off with. In closing, Soul Brothers Of Kung Fu has its flaws, but is a very interesting and well choreographed Kung Fu movie.

This starts with the look and feel of "A Better Tomorrow" and delivers the same heroic bloodshed. If you are familiar with these types of Hong Kong movies you know the characters will all die at the end or at most only one will survive. I'm surprised to learn about the alternate cuts/endings and now I have to find those versions also. Yes, Carl Scott was the token and under-used so every minute more of screen time for him would improve the final cut. The fights are fabulous in every respect particularly in Bruce Li's execution and power. The pacing of the story is perfect and the fights each seem unique. I rate it a well above average eight out of ten.

There's only one 'soul brother' in this feature, released on video in the United States as part of the 'Mack Video' series. Anyone picking this up looking for black action thrills is going to be disappointed, as token African-American actor Carl Scott is really only a supporting character, and is burdened with a horrendous dubbing job by what sounds like a white Australian voice actor. Beyond the false advertising, however, this is actually an above average genre flick, featuring wall to wall, well choreographed action sequences and some unique training techniques, including a light up mannequin and what look to be bear traps! Additionally, the video is letterboxed and was decently mastered, and the film features a bit more sex and nudity than you might expect. On the other hand, this print features the usual bad dubbing as well as numerous bizarre jump cuts. Like many films of its type and era, Soul Brothers of Kung Fu also shamelessly cribs musical cues, featuring generous (and undoubtedly uncleared) segments of Bill Conti's Rocky themes, plus Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die, Silver Connection's disco classic Fly Robin Fly, and what sounds like Santo and Johnny's version of Happy Birthday!