Aw srsly? This is going to get confused with Sammo's Bodyguard. It's like what happened with the Master last year.
At least it has Shi Yanneng.
Aw srsly? This is going to get confused with Sammo's Bodyguard. It's like what happened with the Master last year.
At least it has Shi Yanneng.
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How about Sonny Chiba's 'The Bodyguard'(a.k.a., Karate Kiba)?
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I did see this so it's time for the FIRST FORUM REVIEW
This is the 2nd film written & starring Yue Song; the first one was The King of the Streets. Bodyguard costars Shi Yanneng who I knew from my early Shaolin years and we featured on the cover of our May+June 2011 Shaolin Special. Like Song's 1st film, Bodyguard had a threadbare plot and a lot of action. It's an old story: bodyguard protects a spoiled hottie, an evil gang wants her to get at her dad, and there's some sexual tension - actually there's a lot more intrigue because the adversaries are martial brothers (Song is 'iron legs' ala Eric Idle's character Desmond in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen/Yanneng is 'iron fist' ala Iron Fist et.al.) and there's more but it never interrupts the steady flow of fight scenes. The choreography is much stronger - good wire work, some major falls, some stunts and some preposterous fights. Yue takes on double hatchets, a giant, a gang of like 50+ baton & ratchet wielded, a cute double dagger villianess, a dude with a horse-cutting lance, and of course, Yanneng. It's superhero fightin' where people get kicked through concrete walls - quite tongue-in-cheek, with echoes of Shaolin Soccer silliness but not quite the over-the-top mo lei tau style of humor. Very entertaining as long as you park your brain outside.
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Now retitled as Iron Protector, surely because as we mentioned above - Bodyguard has been overused.
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Enter to win KungFuMagazine.com's contest for Iron Protector on Blu-Ray Disc! Contest ends 5:30 p.m. PST on 9/14/2017.
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