Invincible Kung Fu (1979) User Reviews (2)

Below average martial arts comedy with one joke

[ckormos1 · 5/10 · 24 September 2016]

Men are gambling on a small boat. Hon Kwok-Choi flashes a wad of cash and Ku Feng creates a disturbance to steal it. Bruce Leung, with eyeglasses and a missing tooth, is accused and they fight. Ashore they both are hired as the new kung fu teacher and continue to fight. Bolo is the bad guy responsible for the death of the previous teacher. The protection guys are making rounds and the deaf mute student beats them. Bolo is angry. The girl, Mei Mei, beats up both our two guys. Exposed as fakes, she warns them to get out of town before they get killed like her father. Yet they keep beating up every challenger Bolo sends. However, Bolo clobbers them both. So they combine skills, Bruce can only kick and Hon Kwok-Choi can only punch.

One joke does not make a comedy movie. This movie has one joke, repeated for about 50 minutes. At that point the drunken master enters the story. Our guys are run out of town and they meet up with Ku Feng again. Now we have a trio with Ku Feng as their teacher. First a warning, fast forward past the animal cruelty scene at about 1:05:00 first.

Any fan of these movies recognizes the names and faces of Ku Feng, Bruce Leung Siu-Lung and Hon Kwok-Choi. They were among the greatest of this genre so how bad can any movie be with all three of them starring? This is how bad. Any one not a fan of this genre could never sit through this movie. Though it is a pleasure to watch them in action it is just the same action over and over and they have done it all better in other movies.

Good actors wasted in an aimless comedy

[Leofwine_draca · 4/10 · 22 February 2017]

INVINCIBLE KUNG FU is more of a lame comedy than a kung fu movie. It does feature a great deal of action but none of it is particularly interesting as it all seems exaggerated and played for laughs rather than to show off any genuine skill on the part of the actors. It's a cheap and cheerful affair from Hong Kong that has enough recognisable cast members to make fans want to check it out.

The hero of the piece is KUNG FU HUSTLE's Bruce Leung, almost unrecognisable with his bottle top glasses and missing teeth. He plays a real geeky character accompanied by the usual dummies with a knack for broad and lowbrow humour. Leung plays a small-time con man who arrives off the boat and immediately falls foul of Bolo Yeung, a real delight as the tough guy of the piece in the first half of the picture. Bolo does his trademark 'look away' kung fu style and it's a shame he doesn't get more screen time.

INVINCIBLE KUNG FU's second half becomes more interested in different styles of kung fu, particularly the goose, cat, and snake styles. These are demonstrated in a graphic scene which has the creatures fighting each other in a cage so animal lovers should beware. That great elder actor of Shaw Brothers cinema, Ku Feng, plays the old master. It's a pity that the production values and quality of combat wasn't a little strong as this had the potential to be something good.