7/10
A decent martial arts film displaying some excellent fight scenes, although the plot is somewhat lacking at times.
9 April 2007
Warning: Spoilers
I found this movie under the name of "Iron Kung Fu" as part of a 4-movie set released by Disc Plaza Entertainment.

Unfortunately, the sound on the disc seemed to have a one-second delay, so there was some confusion due to it being out of sync with the video. I'm assuming this error is exclusive to the DPE release of "Cantonen Iron Kung Fu", and should not affect people's opinions in regards to purchasing the film.

Other than that one minor technical issue, I found the film to be, on the whole, quite enjoyable. The fight scenes seemed well choreographed, and Leung Kar Yan, who played Ah Tung, managed to pull off the moves quite convincingly despite his lack of martial arts training. The plot was fairly typical of the period and style, although director Lee Chiu did use certain camera angles uncommon during that period, and the leg-snapping scenes were quite surprising (think of a 1970's version of the bone-breaking scenes from Jet Li's "Romeo Must Die").

On the whole, an enjoyable film that will see repeated plays despite the standard plot and minor technical error.
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