L'invincible bagarreur

The protection gang warms up by beating the street merchants. Then they accuse a man of being a follower of some general and they fight. Our man wins. He is informed about some treasure and a man is coming to help him assist the general. Some new guy arrives and fights his way to the head of the protection gang. He is hired to assassinate the general's man. He easily kills the man.

Unfortunately it doesn't end right there. Elton Chong is the lead actor as the man's son and he says "I know what to do." Instead of finding out what that is the next few scenes involve a hungry old guy trying to get some food. Mike Wong Lung then shows his skills by beating up the protection gang. Then he becomes a fortune teller. Then Elton is back and what follows is a gambling sequence. It is just sequence after sequence of random stuff with scant coherence. At this point the viewer can only hope the fights make it worthwhile. Though the fights have good power and focus they quickly become the same thing over and over again.

I am amazed by the number of reviews here for this movie. It seems at least ten people have actually watched this and that is about ten too many. Plus the only existing copy, even if bought on DVD, is just a VHS recording of a television broadcast.

I watched this once and I will never watch it again. I rate it way below average for the year and genre.

This movie is terrible in the best possible way. If you are a fan of bad Kung-fu, this movie is hands down the best. The only copy I know of is with my old high school buddy, taped off of USA at some ungodly hour.

This movie contains all the best of horrible Kung-fu. Reused sequences (as many as four times in a single fight scene), comical names (Fat Ho), and a Ghost Fighter who summons the "Dead Evil." The denouement is non-existent. The good guy beats up the bad guy, and the movie stops. What else do you need from a movie?

INVINCIBLE OBSESSED FIGHTER is your run of the mill kung fu film for the most part, with the odd addition of some cult and wacky elements to the plot which makes it stand out a little from the crowd. Sadly it's so cheap and slapdash overall that it's a film that's difficult to enjoy, which is no surprise given that Tomas Tang directs under a pseudonym.

The story is about the usual hunt for stolen treasure and there's plenty of low rent action to help the running time fly past. The film seems to have been shot or produced in South Korea like so many IFD films and it stars the infamously-named Elton Chong to boot. Sadly, INVINCIBLE OBSESSED FIGHTER is constrained by a very low budget and not very good fight scenes, which is a bit of a problem when there are so many of them. An interlude involving a crazy maggot-eating priest and his army of the dead is a highlight, as are the lowbrow cross-dressing antics of some of the cast.

There are three basic types of martial arts films. The good ones generally have crisp prints and captioning instead of dubbing. And, most importantly, they have great martial arts action and are made by highly skilled and choreographed actors/martial artists. Many others, however, are quite lousy with horrible dubbing, ridiculous stories, prints that look like they have been rotting in a musty closet for centuries. And, most importantly, the martial arts is terrible--with blows clearly coming no where near connecting. They are chock full of punching and kicking sounds consisting of lots of celery being smashed and sticks being slapped. Of course there is the third category of films that fall a bit towards the middle--deficient in one or more areas but not all that bad in others. These films most often actually were originally good films but were ruined by inept dubbing and horrible prints--but the action and choreography is not complete and total crap.

In this final category is where I would place "Invincible Obsessed Fighter". The kung fu is clearly competent and the action very, very fast-paced. But it's also accompanied by more celery twisting and slapping sound effects than you'll find in two or three bad martial arts films put together. And, sadly, the film has dumb voice actors and the print is amazingly poor considering the movie isn't that old. I truly think the DVD was made by filming an old videotape--as the picture clearly is cropped. As a result, this is NOT a film to watch around people who cannot appreciate this sort of effort--your friends and family will just keep asking you 'why do you watch this crap?!'--and that gets pretty old after a while! An additional problem is one I have seen in quite a few martial arts films. When they try to be funny, so many times they are painfully unfunny--and this film clearly is not funny even though it tries with countless goofy faces and lots of mugging that make the Three Stooges look like thespians in comparison!! Some actors, such as Jackie Chan, can do humor AND martial arts--most films in the genre, however, should probably just stick to the action!! I would discuss the plot some, but frankly it didn't seem to have all that much plot--mostly a lot of fighting and goofy comedy.

In its present crappy form, I'd give this film a 3 (and that's being VERY charitable). If it is available without the crappy dubbing and with a decent print, I would probably give the film a 5--it's not bad...but also not very good either.

The voice actors are trolling their asses off and its insanely funny. Action packed (there's a great , high-quality fight every 3 minutes), great choreography, great old fashion Kung-fu mayhem. Get your freinds, get your intoxicants and just chill. This movie is made for week-ends. I loved it.