Zhui long (1977) User Reviews

Here's a kung fu film ripe for the MST3000 treatment

[amarcordian · 5/10 · 26 October 2011]

In terms of acting and choreography, this is one of the very worst kung-fu films I have ever seen. That doesn't stop it from being incredibly entertaining, for all the wrong reasons.

Ling Chia, aka Judy Lee spends most of the film dressed as a man, calling herself Peter. In the English dub it is never explained why. She and her partner (I can't figure out the actress' name) are asked by an interpol agent to infiltrate and bust up a smuggling ring. Judy Lee's partner impersonates a boss from Chinatown USA, known as Big Sister, aka Kitty. Lo Lieh plays the boss of the smuggling ring and Bruce Cheung Mong the boss above him. The gang is never shown smuggling, but they rob a nightclub and it's denizens (on the advice of the false Big Sister) but then are thwarted by Judy Lee and her partner (also wearing costumes) in a hilarious scene of costumed kung fu.

If you like kung fu movies and bad movies, this one is worth seeking out.

Contemporary kung fu of the era

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 18 November 2017]

FIST OF DRAGON is a routine contemporary kung fu movie lensed in Taiwan. The hero of the hour is Chia Ling, playing a cop who goes undercover in order to bring down the big bads running a drug smuggling ring out of Hong Kong. The script for this one is unusually lowbrow and infantile, with lots of sexual innuendo in the English dubbing job and random comedy in the first half. The scene in which a snake attacks some nude bathers is a low light here, but at least there's more action later on, with traditional chases and fist fights. Working against Ling is the inimitable Lo Lieh as the baddie, and that freeze-frame climax in which he realises his defeat is on par with the famous taxi climax of the Bob Hoskin movie THE LONG GOOD Friday.