Duel sauvage

To make it short.... Ti Lung, David Chiang, were the guys in the 70's as far as Martial Arts movies.The one thing wrong today is that it's on VHS tape, but the last 10 minute segment is cut like in some versions of the movie when it played. If you can see the complete version if possible. It doesn't end the way most films would....Still, the part that plays is very good. Very violent set pieces, very bloody, but with great stylized fight throughout. Ti Lung is the best! See also if you can find it The New one Armed Swordsman or in the USA it came out as Triple Irons.

The plot in The Duel is fairly complex, with non-stop double crosses and no one trusting anyone much at all by the end of it, but the brutal action scenes are frequent and quite exciting. This makes it an above average Shaw Brothers martial arts movie, but still a step or two below the studios' greatest efforts.

It's certainly a worthwhile watch for action fans, but part of me wishes it had either spent a bit more time making its story clearer, or just given an even bigger middle finger to the idea of story, cut 15 minutes of chit-chat from the film, and had 90 minutes of even more frequent, bloody fight scenes.

THE DUEL is an excellent Shaw adventure from the triumvirate combiation of director Chang Cheh and stars Ti Lung and David Chiang, perhaps their ultimate outing. It follows a simple, revenge-themed narrative that has much in common with other classics like VENGEANCE! And BOXER FROM SHANTUNG, with Lung going off the deep end when his clan leader is murdered. Chiang has a great dark role as a hired assassin. There's little plot but a huge amount of incredible fight scenes which are packed with blood sprays and a who's who supporting cast of famous Shaw fighters. The ending is the most homoerotic I've ever seen, and the whole thing is tremendously entertaining; I'd go so far as to say this is one of Shaw's best.

This film is a lot of fun. The revenge based plot means infinite opportunities for groups of bad guys to leap out from no where to try and kill the hero - which results in some fantastic, often knife based fights. It may not be realistic, but it sure is spectacular. And then there's the fun to be had with the bad dubbing by Americans from down South and the quirky, chop-sockyness of this film. But if that's not enough, the first major fight scene in this film will be very familiar to fans of Kill Bill volume 1. It was this film that inspired Quientin Tarintino's brilliant finale in the Blue Flower. The set is very reminiscent, and there is even a moment where the power is cut and the fighters are in darkness. So for classic, old school cinema that's still relevant to today - Dual of the Iron Fist is an excellent film.

A bunch of gangsters just hack the living $#!+ out of each other. Duel Of The Iron Fist is a mindless hack and slash action movie. It's just gleaming with angry f····rs wielding an assortment of blades and killing each other off in masses and in bloody like fashion. Seriously, you cannot go five minutes without some blood splashing mayhem. Now, I know the acting is stiff and the story is a bit disjointed; I don't give a flying f···. Angry Chinese people hacking each other to death is all that matters. 10 out of f·····g 10. End of f·····g review.