This film has it all. Good acting, strong leading ladies and a general weirdness that works well if you just go with the flow. Based on Chin Yung's novel THE DEMI-GODS AND SEMI-DEVILS it features Danny Lee in the lead. He is a good actor and has to display here superhuman strength rather than fighting skills which are left to the two main leading ladies, Lam Jan-kei and her snakes and the masked mystery girl Tim Lei, who wields one of the strangest weapons in any film. The main villain is Yellow Robe Man who is understandably angry after his legs were cut off with a Yi Yang Finger technique (imagine Star Wars, made in the same year) and replaced with extendable well chicken legs best describe them! His main henchman is a man-beast (played well by Kong Do) with a metallic skull and shooting claw hands who likes pretty girls. Throw in lots of snakes, a red Python with blood that makes you superhuman, a very, very fake Gorilla and lots of 'special effects' and you have a mixture that is both exciting and quite frankly funny all at the same time. You could never imagine Hollywood making a film like this. And I haven't even touched the incest theme, great photography (though less good editing) and sets. Only pity is I wish the Celestial release (though a great print) had had more extras explaining the background and making of this film.
Review of The Battle Wizard
