Li Chao Yung's deliriously demented, kaleidoscopically cracked Kung Fu phantasmagoria 'Jade Dagger Ninja' (1982) aka 'Shaolin Fox Conspiracy' is a wildly entertaining, daringly disjointed, DMT-laced, deliriously high-flying fight flick that opens outrageously with a truly dazzling display of balletic, blood-splashed, bad guy goring brilliance! With its wickedly exaggerated, noodle-twistingly violent, hyper-kinetic fisticuffs, wildly acrobatic, crimson-slashed sword fights, this bizarrely underrepresented, sardonically dubbed, synapse shattering, super-schizoid, logic-baiting martial arts mayhem is a must-see surrealistically senseless, hyperbolically absurd, deliriously double-dealing, midnight movie disasterpiece! 'Jade Dagger Ninja' is deliciously convoluted magical Elixir seeking, green-skinned demon-incarnating, psychedelicized pugilism done right!
It rarely makes a lick of narrative sense, and frequently lacks the graceful elan of The Shaw Brothers, but none of that matters one measly jot, as this fearlessly far out fight-flick is consistently crazier than crotch full of angry blowfish, and no less exhilarating! While 'Jade Dagger Ninja' certainly won't dethrone 'King Boxer', out decapitate 'Master of the Flying Guillotine', or righteously beat down 'The Prodigal Son' as top tier Kung Fu classics; trash movie terrorists, and warped aficionados of Joseph Lai's insanely incongruous cut n' paste Ninja WTF mania should groove to this oddball Grindhouse Kung Fu freak-show's relentlessly outlandish oeuvre! And how could any serious thrill-seeking cineaste not find the most sublime cult movie edification in a brain-bogglingly bellicose blockbuster that includes the refined, emotionally penetrating, resonating prosody of "Your kung-fu is good...but I wonder, how would you be in bed????' along with 'You're a hard and fast fighter, I wonder if you're hard and fast where it counts!' and, finally, the immaculate repost: 'You're the famous four kings, are you? You're no forking good!! Phooking deadly lyrical genius, mayte!
