Cult Cuts Volume 51 (Return to the Video Store: Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting Part One)
#1/4: Challenge of the Tiger (1980)
(8/10): Absolute Trash and I Adore It.
Challenge of the Tiger follows two agents, a smooth ladies man and our protagonist who is a Chinese Martial Artist as they are tasked with tracking down a new formula that a doctor made that can make any human being completely sterile after the doctor and his assistant were murdered and the formula went missing.
That's pretty much it for the plot but it clearly isn't prioritizing plot when one of the heroes is a rich playboy who plays badminton with topless women while he has other topless women parade around his villa and the other is a Martial Artist who has his warrior stances and battle faces dialed up to eleven.
Directed and Starring Bruce Le, not Bruce Lee, as well as starring Richard Harrison and Bolo Yeung who was also involved with Enter the Dragon, Boxer's Omen and Bloodsport and finally Jeong-lee Hwang from Drunken Master, Ninja in the Dragon's Den, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and the Invincible Armour this ridiculous Bruceploitation flick has a pretty solid cast going for it.
I do have to say that even though the fights are pretty exaggerated our major players mentioned above, with the exception of Harrison, actually do demonstrate some solid fighting skills and there's some decent fight choreography in here.
The score is pretty good too, which was also a bit of a surprise for me, although there was a pretty funny bit where the band playing for an upcoming parade I believe, started their tune sounding beat for beat like the fox logo theme before switching it up to avoid a lawsuit I believe.
There is eye candy aplenty here, like it's shameless with the amount of boobs onscreen but it's still so dumb how they play badminton with their headlights flashing, it's just, why? Cause boobs, that's why.
Now as I end this, I do want to say it is something that you must not use your brain cells to enjoy, but it's insane and it's just my kind of thing.
#1/4: Challenge of the Tiger (1980)
(8/10): Absolute Trash and I Adore It.
Challenge of the Tiger follows two agents, a smooth ladies man and our protagonist who is a Chinese Martial Artist as they are tasked with tracking down a new formula that a doctor made that can make any human being completely sterile after the doctor and his assistant were murdered and the formula went missing.
That's pretty much it for the plot but it clearly isn't prioritizing plot when one of the heroes is a rich playboy who plays badminton with topless women while he has other topless women parade around his villa and the other is a Martial Artist who has his warrior stances and battle faces dialed up to eleven.
Directed and Starring Bruce Le, not Bruce Lee, as well as starring Richard Harrison and Bolo Yeung who was also involved with Enter the Dragon, Boxer's Omen and Bloodsport and finally Jeong-lee Hwang from Drunken Master, Ninja in the Dragon's Den, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and the Invincible Armour this ridiculous Bruceploitation flick has a pretty solid cast going for it.
I do have to say that even though the fights are pretty exaggerated our major players mentioned above, with the exception of Harrison, actually do demonstrate some solid fighting skills and there's some decent fight choreography in here.
The score is pretty good too, which was also a bit of a surprise for me, although there was a pretty funny bit where the band playing for an upcoming parade I believe, started their tune sounding beat for beat like the fox logo theme before switching it up to avoid a lawsuit I believe.
There is eye candy aplenty here, like it's shameless with the amount of boobs onscreen but it's still so dumb how they play badminton with their headlights flashing, it's just, why? Cause boobs, that's why.
Now as I end this, I do want to say it is something that you must not use your brain cells to enjoy, but it's insane and it's just my kind of thing.