This documentary if you can call it that mainly comes off as presenting the views and opinions of Kung Fu movies from the view of African American person. It should be noted however that neither the writer, director, or producer are African American people. Almost a good majority of the movie is spent talking about movie theaters in African American neighborhoods and about how the African American people were responsible for the uprising and success of Kung Fu movies according to the opinions expressed in the film. It also spends much time talking about African American martial arts actors. The film also closes off with talking about Wakaliwood films. I have nothing against African American people but the whole movie seems to have a racial and gender undertone. It fails to mention much besides some small parts earlier on in history about China, Hong Kong, and the East-Asian market and support for the films.
This is to be expected from a movie made by Veronica Fury and Serge Ou. What is also to be expected is that the film has no focused proper focused direction and feels like they just pasted together what they were lucky enough to pull together for people willing to let them interview them and video clips they managed to afford buying the rights to use. The video talks for a decent bit about Jackie Chan but of course they failed to obtain any interview with him at all. In fact, they were not able to get interviews with any famous martial arts celebrities of the last 30 years.
The film attempts to rely on large amounts of video clips of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan along with some quick clips of Tony Jaa to hopefully win over the audience and make them think that this is a quality film. The film leaves out many very important people like Jet Li, director John Woo, and many others. It even talks about Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon without once mentioning Chow Yun-Fat but spends nearly 5-10min or more talking just about the female actors. The film also spends much time talking about protesting and rising up against oppression etc. Much time is spent talking about how things progressed up until the 1980's and then from 1980-1999 the entire timeline is just summed up with "During this time the videos came to home-video thanks to the support from African Americans during the 70's so all you wealthy suburban white people that watched the movies in the 80's and 80's can thank the African Americans for that!" then it proceeds into talking about The Matrix (1999). They skipped Jackie Chan's entire career outside of his initial Hong Kong films, skipped Jet Li and didn't even mention him once. After 1999 they jumped right into talking about how other countries started getting into martial art films and just left out the entire last 20 years of history. I guess it was too much for their budget to talk to anyone relevant from the last 20 years or even use video clips from that time period(save the few they used for talking about other international martial arts films).
Like usual Veronica has put large amounts of effort into using the film as a method to push Liberal propaganda as the film does not go 5 min. without making strong liberal messages. What is sad is that there is little effort made into actually making a documentary about Kung Fu movies and it seriously shows. Veronica and Serge used Kung Fu films for mental manipulation to push their political agendas with this film which was very disrespectful to the industry, actors, community, fans, and people who care about the films of the genre. It makes sense why no mainstream actors were willing to do interviews and support this film. I prefer not to pick a side in politics and have no hate for liberals. I just find it disappointing when people can't just make movies to be about the subject matter the movie appears to be about, instead the main intentions of the film are just to push political propaganda and the "subject matter" was just a medium used to manipulate the viewers with the propaganda.
The film attempts to rely on large amounts of video clips of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan along with some quick clips of Tony Jaa to hopefully win over the audience and make them think that this is a quality film. The film leaves out many very important people like Jet Li, director John Woo, and many others. It even talks about Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon without once mentioning Chow Yun-Fat but spends nearly 5-10min or more talking just about the female actors. The film also spends much time talking about protesting and rising up against oppression etc. Much time is spent talking about how things progressed up until the 1980's and then from 1980-1999 the entire timeline is just summed up with "During this time the videos came to home-video thanks to the support from African Americans during the 70's so all you wealthy suburban white people that watched the movies in the 80's and 80's can thank the African Americans for that!" then it proceeds into talking about The Matrix (1999). They skipped Jackie Chan's entire career outside of his initial Hong Kong films, skipped Jet Li and didn't even mention him once. After 1999 they jumped right into talking about how other countries started getting into martial art films and just left out the entire last 20 years of history. I guess it was too much for their budget to talk to anyone relevant from the last 20 years or even use video clips from that time period(save the few they used for talking about other international martial arts films).
Like usual Veronica has put large amounts of effort into using the film as a method to push Liberal propaganda as the film does not go 5 min. without making strong liberal messages. What is sad is that there is little effort made into actually making a documentary about Kung Fu movies and it seriously shows. Veronica and Serge used Kung Fu films for mental manipulation to push their political agendas with this film which was very disrespectful to the industry, actors, community, fans, and people who care about the films of the genre. It makes sense why no mainstream actors were willing to do interviews and support this film. I prefer not to pick a side in politics and have no hate for liberals. I just find it disappointing when people can't just make movies to be about the subject matter the movie appears to be about, instead the main intentions of the film are just to push political propaganda and the "subject matter" was just a medium used to manipulate the viewers with the propaganda.