The Boxer's Adventure (1977) User Reviews

The Boxer's Adventure 1979

[jddog130 · 6/10 · 25 March 2015]

In Tiger village, three fighters are hired and teamed with Captain Lee (Dorian Tan-Tao Liang) and sent to prepare the villages for the arrival of the minister. Along the way it seems that everyone is out to get them encountering ambushes and plots that threaten to stop them from completing they're mission.

The first half of this film was a bit slower than I expected but the second half made up for it. The fights get a lot better and I found it as enjoyable as I hoped. The addition of the fighting girls helped too.

Warning... when I first found this film I was confused, I thought I already had it, but I didn't. The (Ocean Shores) movie "Militant Eagle" 1978 (aka Boxer's Adventure) is produced by Ju Geng and stars Ling Yun, Barry Chan, Pai Ying and Kong Ching Ha. This movie "The Boxer's Adventure" is produced by Helen Wu Yu-Yaw and stars Dorian Tan-Tao Liang, Meng Fei, Blackie Ko Shau Lieng and Jack Lung shih Chia.

So watch what movie your buying and review that your reading because they seem to get mixed up.

Well above average...

[poe-48833 · 10/10 · 22 September 2015]

THE BOXER'S ADVENTURE features the spectacular kicking of Tan Tao-Liang, which is in itself enough to recommend it, but it also boasts superb supporting players in Meng Fei (who's funny as the rhyming beggar, Chang) and Shou Liang Ko as "Nancy Boy" Ciao San (whose habit of running a pinky through his hair to get a lock out of his eyes during fights garners him the "Nancy Boy" nickname- coupled with his somewhat unusual "butt first" approach to fighting). As the foregoing suggests, there's humor enough in THE BOXER'S ADVENTURE- but it never gets in the way (the way it did in all too many of the martial arts movies that followed in the wake of Jackie Chan's success), and exceptional direction is WHY. Overall, an exceptional (if unheralded) little adventure.