Le Trésor du Dragon

This movie really doesn't have much going for it. First of all, the kung fu in it is pretty bad all the way through. Second, the story literally doesn't get going until halfway into the movie. Third, the bad guys are some of the dullest I've ever seen. Fourth, a couple of the comic relief elements are too ridiculous even for a movie like this (esp. the guy with the Scottish accent who puts on a set of bull horns). Fifth, some scenes are so unintentionally bad that one has to laugh at them for being so embarrassing.

On the other hand, the movie doesn't have anything in it that is *really* terrible, either - at least not if you know what kind of movie you're dealing with. The story, while quite bad, is straight-forward. Dragon Lee himself is not too bad as a Bruce Lee clone (he looks a lot more like Jason Scott Lee, though). He's got the Bruce Lee facial mimicry down to a tee, but sometimes he overdoes it, making really weird little sounds.

Overall, this is a "4" out of 10 kind of movie, and not something you should waste your time on, unless it's for comical purposes (or if you're doing a treatise on Bruce Lee imitators...).

You know you're watching a movie (mostly) made for kids whome at the end of the film, will likely be jumping and kicking each other for the remainder of the day making all the swooshing noises to imitate the supersonic / sonic-boom 'like'? Effect of each strike,..

... when aside from all the hilariously-off aspects of the production in terms of sound/vision synch and things like matching sound effects, or someone making sure that the audience even had enough time or the object being in focus, that a sound effect was-for ... the two things that struck me at the end of the film ... completely dis-regarded,..

... were that a dying father almost completely ignores his daughter standing right there... barely says a word ... but concentrates instead on the Hero in his dying breath, even though what he ended up saying had been inferred in previous conversations, and if he'd thought for a fraction of a second about whether to repeat it, or whether to say goodbye to his daughter,.. he'd've said goodbye...

*keyboard headcrash*

:D That's the 1940s/1960s for you!

... and 2 ... that at the very end, against the main female lead, has a perfect opportunity to THANK the Hero, for helping her get revenge ... and it's completely ignored,.. and instead, we get to see Dragon's goofy smile a 4th? 5th? Time?

The actress whatever her name was must've been spitting wood-chips that day.

Lol!!! Terrible.... but so good because of that!! Utterly careless/heedless. Lol!!!

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on the production side ... there was a fair amount of realism maintained throughout it, scenes were far-enough-back shot, lighting was good,

and scenery never seemed unnatural or overly contrived or overly dramatized or unrealistic for the scene - very natural AND theatrical, which definitely kept the same atmosphere throughout the entire story, which meant you could concentrate on what was being focused on, and yes, i say that in full-knowledge that it's choreographed sped-up nonsense just for the kids,..

but who cares! It still looks awesome to a 4YO. :)

Could do with a remastering though - brightness could be tinted down a little and more saturation could be added, and the sound DEFINITELY needs work , although there was not constant metallic-clinging as you get in some. Mostly on-wood and on-flesh sounds.

Some humor, which broke up the constancy / monotony a bit, and that combined with Dragon's goofy smile added a nice non-realism touch for the adults concerned about over-aggression as a result of the film. Nicely balanced in that sense , but yeah... poor old whats-her-name at the end ... dad ignores her, and then the Producer/Editor / someone gives her thank you scene the cut.

Probably got cut by the production staff more than the bad guys throughout the whole movie. Might an old-footage extended version remake be possible? Put more of the gags back in,.. re-balance the gender dualism for things like i've mentioned here ... and do a lot of work on the sound, and it would be back up there as a more worthy classic.

Tons of , we'll do it our own way production-style though.

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Possibly a precursor to later films with a similar setting, where Imperial Japs have been causing indirect countrymen to end up fighting each other rather than them, in a mining context?

I got this flick on a double-bill along with, "Chinese Kung Fu Against Godfather;" both movies are on the same disk (one movie on each side), and both movies have the same problem; every so often, and without warning, the disk will just skip ahead to another scene, forcing me to rewined back to see what i missed. This made watching the movie, a rather frustrating ordeal. As for the movie itself: It's not bad, it basically consists of Dragon Lee, and Pheniox Kim Kung Fuing as many people as possible until the end of the movie's duration. It has everything you would expect from a stereotypical Kung Fu flick; bad dubbing, great fights, lame plot, hilarious sound effects, and a generous dose of campy humor. I can't think of much more to say so i'll just end the review here.

I had the advantage of seeing this at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin (a great movie house that serves food and booze to you as you watch the movie), in "Foleyvision." The soundtrack is off completely, and a local comedian and three other sound/voice guys do all the voices, sound effects and music.

The chief bad guy was given a broad Scots accent and his brother an accent that sounded a bit like the Knight Who Says Ni in the Python movie. They dub in actual dialogue to keep a coherent story, but embellish ("Ah Ha! Now I understand, Pai Liu was his father (although I am not sure how I know that) . . .") During the fight scenes the actors say things like "Now I will defeat him with my no hands technique . . . (gets hit) . . . hmmm, maybe the one hand technique . . ." and "bet you can't do a cartwheel . . . oh, I stand corrected."

Great fun.

Well, this film is so bad, but the fight scenes are good...But there is a problem, the "bad guys" are not good fighters, they just walk around the hero(The Korean star Dragon Lee), making ridiculous movements, is funny! Some actors appear again and again playing different characters...But Dragon Lee is wonderful again... The story is so "original", The Dragon Lee´s father is murdered, and he takes the revenge. He become the "silver ninja", and search for his father´s killer...Wow! Only for the kung fu films fan(Like me!)