Donnie Yen's modern day releases are always a treasure and KUNG FU KILLER is no exception. This time there's a mysterious kung fu killer - with an amazing scrunched up face - murdering martial artists using their own skills. Donnie is a former martial arts superstar in jail and all broken up about killing someone in a duel. Obviously the cops let him out to track down the killer. It's a simple but brilliant plot used as a springboard for a variety of super-cool fights across HK. Yes the whole thing is cliché - from the gal he has to protect to the cop ally whose superiors just don't understand her - but forgivable. To add to the charm, the production is packed with old-time HK movie stars in bit roles. The only let-downs are that the plot means that Donnie only gets in one big MMA mass brawl (when he takes on a whole prison gang) and that Donnie is once again a rather boring goodie-two-shoes (the ending is a message about how being No.1 is lonely so it's better to be part of a team, comrade). Still, how many other films feature a fight on top of an enormous plaster recreation of a human skeleton?
Review of Kung Fu Jungle
