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I stumbled upon the 2020 Chinese martial arts action movie titled "Buddha Palm Technique" by random chance here in 2023. I found the movie's cover to be rather interesting, and thus picked up a copy of it. Never having heard about it, I didn't know what I was in for, but I figured with Collin Chou on the cast list, it couldn't be all bad.

However, the storyline in "Buddha Palm Technique" was one of the worst storylines I have suffered through in a long, long time. But there has been a couple of years of shallow-scripted movies spewing out en-masse from the Chinese cinema, and "Buddha Palm Technique" was one such movie. It was all visual and special effects and nothing in the story department. And that made "Buddha Palm Technique", from director Yi Huang, a particularly atrocious movie to suffer through.

And the fact that whatever was supposed to be a storyline and script was so confusing and chaotic that there was no red thread to it all hardly helped to improve things.

The acting performances in the movie were fair enough. I though that Collin Chou was in a leading role, but turns out that he wasn't, and that was somewhat disappointing. I wasn't familiar with the leading actor or actress, however.

Visually then "Buddha Palm Technique" was quite good, but good special effects on a shallow script just doesn't really make for properly adequate entertainment, now does it?

The martial arts sequences in the movie were fair and actually looked good. But again, such action just hardly couldn't stand on its own without a proper script to support the narrative.

My rating of "Buddha Palm Technique" lands on a three out of ten stars.