Snake And Crane Arts Of Shaolin DVD

Advantages: Jet li's first movie, rare, good story, history lesson
Disadvantages: None

...I love this movie, since its not only a movie about Jet Li's character, it also explains and talks about some of the History the Shaolin temple and some of their principles and how far its influence has gone across the world. The story in this movie, is Jet Li is the son of a martial art clan who specialised in kicking styles, but his family was completely wiped off the world, and he barely escapes the warlord who had captured him. He was lucky enough to have been discovered by the daughter of a shaolin monk, who took him in and healed him back to life. During his stay he watched how a sect of the monks were allowed to learn Kung Fu, and soon began to follow their training programme which is exactly how they trained in life. Soon after he joins the temple as a monk, slowly forgetting his thrist for revenge, but due to the kidnap of his... Read review

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Advantages: Good Martial Arts Cheese
Disadvantages: Bad Quality, the subtitles

...I picked up the Shaolin & Wu Tang DVD from HMV a good while ago because it was £3 and I was looking for some unknown Martial Arts movies to watch. As you would image I wasn't really expecting anything from this movie, and like the saying goes, I got what I paid for. The movie starts of with some sort of display, nothing to do with the movie at all, except to perhaps introduce the viewer to some of the moves used in both the Shaolin and Wu Tang styles. The quality of the DVD is to be honest, rubbish - its like you are watching a 10 year old VHS in a 20 year old VHS player, very very grainy and in places very hard to watch. The sound isn't much better, the music would be decent enough (if a little cheesy) if it wasn't for the constant crackling throughout. **I think I should say as a side note now, the bad quality may have infact been... Read review

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Advantages: dubbed
Disadvantages: it's dubbed

...firstly it's a dubbed movie, and personally i do dislike most dubbed films but this was the best i've seen although slightlyout of sync on occasions it was brilliant, one o fth ebest films i've seen in ages, i saw this in early 2002 for the first time subbed, and i absolutely love rthe film, so when it eventually reached our shores i purchased straight away, and subsquently hero, house of flying daggers, i've been hooked on chinese films for a while, and shaolin soccer has me hooked even more so, i've even taen up kung fu because of it, this is how motivating the film is, and with thespecial guest appearance of the twins you can't ask for a film better without it being shaolin soccer 2 the opening scene 'golden leg' has his leg broken after missing a penalty he was talked into by supposedly his best pal, it then switcheds into his pal... Read review

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