This was the second "Cheap" Chinese Kung Fu movie after Fatal Flying Guillotines, previously I had seen allot of high budget modern Kung Fu movies, such as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Fearless, and House of Flying Daggers, so my expectations were too high when i watched it.
The first time I watched it I was pretty disgusted and though it as the worst movie I had ever seen, however after watching it again two years latter and having watched allot more of the "Cheap" Kung Fu movies of the 70s & 80s I was allot less harsh, although I still believe it deserves no more than a 5 or 6. Here is a brief outline of the film:
The storyline is nothing original, your average story that some guy has most of his family murdered by a Santa-Claus looking Kung Fu expert, our protagonist then goes to find another Kung Fu expert (or in this case two), learns Kung Fu, gets strong than extracts revenge on the Santa-Claus look alike, in this case played by Lung Fei. The protagonist played by Wang Tao is victimized because his family hold the secret were this vast Treasure is. Almost every character talks about the treasure in the movie although ever really happens and you never see the "Treasure". The director tries to add some spic to it by having a random seductive killer ghost make an appearance midway through the film and a humorous beggar accompany the protagonist, but neither really help much. This film is Unintentonally funny due to the poor dubbing and even poorer sound effects, most notably when the Santa-Claus looking antagonist slaps to death one of his henchmen for unexplained reasons, each slap accompanied by an odd laser like noise. The Kung Fu is alright, and some of the scenes that this movie are filmed at are actually quit nice, such as the bamboo forest and waterfall scenes. In the end the dubbing and storyline prevent you from taking this film seriously, I wouldn't really recommend it to any one unless you want to laugh at its poor production, but there have been allot worse.
