Fist from Shaolin (1993)
Reviewed by: spinali on 1999-12-08
Summary: NULL
The opening is played over a montage of scenes from Jet Li movies, but that's just a tease. It quickly shifts to a different Wong Fei-Hong (a legendary 19th century patriot and doctor) and his friends Kuan and Ah So as they save a pair of street performers from prostitution and slavery, respectively. Obviously (but maybe not so obviously if you're not up on your Chinese history), this pits him against Qin powers who are starting to import opium and industrialize with British support. The movie's almost a photocopy of Once Upon a Time in China 3, but has a great lion dance fight on a balancing ladder, another with a pig carcass, and yet another in an opium warehouse. With solid flicks like this, you don't mind its being derivative to the point of it being a potential legal problem. Cute Ten Yun Yee adds eye-appeal as Wong's Westernized 13th aunt.

(3/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]
Reviewer Score: 7