Mo gui ke xing (1980) User Reviews

Two movies for the price of one and that is not a good thing

[ckormos1 · 5/10 · 19 November 2016]

The movie starts with "who are these guys and why are they fighting?" After the credits a rape scene. Darky, the good guy, intervenes and the bad guys turn the tables on him and blame him for the rape and murder. He fights them off and is about to escape. Enter Alexander Lo Rei, the new sheriff in town. He helps to detain Darky. He soon learns things are corrupt in this town.

These movies are well known for being made up as they went along. This is a good example of that. The two opening scenes are really good, the good guy trying to intervene and the police officer making a mistake. That was good drama but the problem is where to go after that and what to fill the next hour with?

The reviewer from Oz pointed out that half way through the movie the leads are killed and another story starts. He is right. This is two movies sewn together. I can't explain why or how that happens but it has occurred a few times in this genre. Plus the movie is English dubbed for VHS rentals back in the 1980s with loose translations that often result in another different story being told. I am surprised they actually went the extra step of pan and scan for the VHS. Then there's the titles – nothing to do with anything except a VHS rental eye catcher "Ninja!"

Yes, we have an incoherent impossible to follow mess here, a fine example of fight scenes with little or nothing to tie them together. If you are a hard core fan of this genre you just drink another beer and keep watching. The fights are not bad at all. I recommend the fast forward button for when they are not fighting.

Overall this movie is only for fans of the genre. I cannot recommend it and rate it below average for the year and genre. As a hard core fan I watched it once because I want to watch them all but I doubt I will ever watch it again.

The worst movie i have ever seen.

[plantostickthat · 1/10 · 3 December 2001]

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I probably use that line a lot, but thats because the movies i watch get worse and worse. And maybe, MAYBE, someday there will be a movie worse than this one. But i doubt it.

The back of the box says 'a man uses his ninja skills to avenge his fathers death'. His father isn't even in the movie. Yuo would think they could show us a bit of respect. I think the story is about a man without a name who sees a girl getting raped, then they blame it on him and then they fight a lot. Then they capture the nameless man, and 150,000 other characters with no names are introduced to the movie. They all die. Then, in the middle of the vague plot, we suddenly are taken to the jungle, and 3 people we have never seen before fight 2 people we have never seen before. The three people win, then it goes back to the 'story', and the fight had absolutely no relevance to the movie.

Then some more stuff happens, more characters with no names, and then the main characters are killed HALFWAY THROUGH THE MOVIE!!

So then they have to introduce more main characters without names to pick up where the other ones left off. Except they dont, they start a completely different quest, fight some more people who we have never seen before but are suddenly pivotal to the plot, and bash them. Then they fight some guy in a cape who can punch people in the jaw who are turned away from him 10 metres away.

If this review is a mess, wait until you see the movie. Even technically it's hopeless - there are 2 (that's right, 2) noises played when someone lands a punch or a kick, and one of them is a 'boing'. Me and a friend almost died laughing when the ninjas were hitting each other over 'boing boing boing'. Also, the camerawork is the definition of bad. You would think that the camera could at least look at people's faces when they talk. Often, a character will be talking and the camera will have a little bit of the side of his face on the edge of the screen, and the rest is staring off into space. Sometimes the camera makes a mistake and then corrects itself, which is even funnier.

But when i say this is the worst movie i have ever seen, i don't mean it was the most painful to watch. It is the worst made, but it is great fun to watch and notice all the flaws. So, i'm giving it a 1, but i highly reccomend it.

Devil Killer

[sarasbubby · 8/10 · 2 January 2021]

Not to bad of a movie the plot was kind of hard to follow at first but you can catch on pretty quick. The fight scenes are very good and the story line has a twist that makes everything very interesting. If your a old kung fu movie fan then I reccomend you watch this movie it's not very bad at all...