Eighteen Fatal Strikes (1978)
Reviewed by: mpongpun on 2002-07-27
If you love gung fu flicks featuring white haired villains like I do, then you’ll love this one. The white haired villain is played by Sze Ma Lung. He is casted as the evil Wong Wu Ti with the outrageous shaking eagle’s claw style. Just watching him getting down with this technique is enough for me to see this flick. This flick is a basic rehash of those evil Chings who need to wipe out the rebels plot. Wong Wu Ti is a Ching enforcer and it is his job to capture a Shaolin rebel named Wen Hung (Wen Chiang Long). The Shaking Eagle almost does, but the Abbot Wen Hung escapes with his life and is taken in by two bumbling fools, Hsiao Tung (Tung Wei) and Tai Pei (Dean Shek). The two bumbling fools learn Lo Han fist from the Abbot but later find themselves butting heads with Wong Wu Ti as they too have joined the cause with Abbot Wen Hung to free China from the Ching tyrants such as Wong Wu Ti. After some drama in which Tai Pei is killed, Hsiao Tung, the Abbot, and his niece join up in a excellent choreographed finale to take on Wong Wu Ti to avenge Tai Pei’s death and to knock off another bad ass Ching.