The Avenging Fist (2001)
Reviewed by: resdog781 on 2002-03-23
Summary: Love = Good. Wrath = Bad.
Remember, the power of the Avenging Fist comes not from wrath.....*dramatic pause*.....but from love.

Remember that, because that phrase is repeated at least 50 times through the movie.

I seem to be in the minority here, but this movie SUCKED. SUCKED SUCKED SUCKED. Corey Yuen's fight choreography didn't mean shit in this film thanks to the overload of CGI effects and horrible editing which chopped up the fight scenes beyond all recognition.

The acting was fairly wooden and/or cheesy, as befitting any video game film adaptation, with the bad guy, "Combat 21" taking the prize. "Combat 21"?? Who the hell came up with that name?? Oh and the main character's girlfriend just pissed me off. I dunno why. Maybe cos asian girls should NEVER GET AFROS.

Plus, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao keep getting older, though Yuen Biao had a couple good moves. All they decided Sammo was gonna do was jump up and punch people with the POWER GLOVE(tm) That's another thing. I don't ever wanna hear the phrase "POWER GLOVE"(tm) ever again. Unless you're talking about the NES Power Glove, and even then you're pushing it cos that thing sucked.

But yeah. Horrible incomprehensible movie with acting of the wooden and cheesy variety, plus more CGI effects than rationally necessary. This was worse than that Jet Li flick where he fought his evil twin. And that's definitely saying something.