My friend told me that this was a brilliant movie but at the time I would have taped it anyway because it was a Hong Kong film and then I was pleasantly surprised to notice that it was a Jet Li film. SBS would show lots of Hong Kong movies but the Jet Li, Jackie Chan, and even John Woo films seem to be few and far between so I knew that I was going to enjoy this. To my added surprise I discovered that this film was made in Los Angeles, even though it is a Hong Kong film so I thought that this was pretty impressive. Most Hong Kong films are either made in Hong Kong or Vancover. This was made in the film making capital of the world.
The plot is pretty simple. A kung-fu expert is becoming quite cocky and beating up all of the masters in Los Angeles to become the strongest in America. He finds his old master and beats him up but the master manages to escape and is nursed back to health. Meanwhile Jet (Jet Li) comes into Los Angeles to find his old master, having obtained a tourist visa. Once he has found his master he must then deal with the American upstart.
This movie is quite funny and full of fancy martial arts. I enjoyed it even though the thought level was low, but that does not make a bad movie. Some of my favourite movies are little more that huge gunfights: but at times I believe a brilliant gunfight can make or break a movie. The Master is a kung-fu movie and for those who love martial arts should come this way. The Chinese make far better kung-fu movies than do the Americans, as we can see when we compare this with something staring Van-Damme. Okay, Bruce Lee annoyed me somewhat in the Big Boss, but as with everything, we must take the good with the bad. The other curious thing is that a friend said that all Tsui Hark films have a magical element to it. Okay, Twin Dragons did, but this movie did not.
The plot is pretty simple. A kung-fu expert is becoming quite cocky and beating up all of the masters in Los Angeles to become the strongest in America. He finds his old master and beats him up but the master manages to escape and is nursed back to health. Meanwhile Jet (Jet Li) comes into Los Angeles to find his old master, having obtained a tourist visa. Once he has found his master he must then deal with the American upstart.
This movie is quite funny and full of fancy martial arts. I enjoyed it even though the thought level was low, but that does not make a bad movie. Some of my favourite movies are little more that huge gunfights: but at times I believe a brilliant gunfight can make or break a movie. The Master is a kung-fu movie and for those who love martial arts should come this way. The Chinese make far better kung-fu movies than do the Americans, as we can see when we compare this with something staring Van-Damme. Okay, Bruce Lee annoyed me somewhat in the Big Boss, but as with everything, we must take the good with the bad. The other curious thing is that a friend said that all Tsui Hark films have a magical element to it. Okay, Twin Dragons did, but this movie did not.