Executioners from Shaolin (1977)
Reviewed by: battlemonkey on 1999-12-21
Picking up where MEN FROM THE MONASTERY left off, Hung Hsi Kuan (arole being revived once again by Jet Li, who seems to want to play every character from Chinese history, ever), played by Chen Kuan Tai, escapes the carnage that ended that movies and trains to defeat the white-haired hermit (Lo Lieh). Hung has a son who also trains. Hung is killed, but not before discovering that the villain does have a weak point--the only problem being that the weak point floats around to different locations on his body. The job of revenge is left to Hung's son. Where most films about Shaolin characters are more about Shaolin than people, Liu has put a lot of work into characters. Still, I personally find the movie a bit dull, and the final fight ends ridiculously, with Hung's son punching the hermit, then a freeze-frame, and a narrator going, "And eventually, he was victorious."