Jeux de Kung Fu

When I sat down to watch the 2024 action movie "Kung Fu Games", from director Ryan C Jaeger, here in 2025, I have to admit that I wasn't exactly harboring the biggest of expectations. Yeah, the movie just sort of permeated low budget all over. But with it being a movie that I had neither heard about nor watched, of course I opted to give the movie a fair chance and the benefit of the doubt.

The script and storyline was flaccid. I was not particularly entertained by what writers H. Daniel Gross and Ryan C Jaeger managed to concoct.

I was not familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie. But the acting performances were adequate enough for what it was. ANd I actually do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen.

I've seen my fair share of questionable ninja costumes over the years. Yeah, I watched a lot of ninja movies back in the 1980s. And this 2024 movie has golden ninjas in it. Golden.

The action and fighting sequences were fair, but nothing extraordinary.

It was a struggle to sit through the ordeal that is "Kung Fu Games", and I was ready to toss the towel in the ring several times throughout the course of the 98 minutes that the movie ran for. But I endured it to the end, hoping the movie would become better. It just never did.

My rating of director Ryan C Jaeger's 2024 movie "Kung Fu Games" lands on a three out of ten stars.

I really do not understand the overly negative, borderline hateful reviews here - after seeing them I went into this movie with low expectations, expecting a potentially painful experience (I'm not even a Kung Fu fan!), and I mean it when I say I GENUINELY, had a really great time from start to finish! It was truly a fun time! It left me feeling like they had somehow seen a different movie than me.

Sure, the plot is not exactly unexplored territory, but isn't this film supposed to be an homage to its namesake/genre? It seems to me it did that well - fun fight scenes, a little heart and levity mixed in, a plot and setting that was an interesting and enjoyable vehicle for cool fighting and interesting characters. It did its job!

Don't let these reviews scares you. I never write reviews and the vitriol in these contrasted with what I watched really compelled me to take the time to do this one. You should ignore these and give the movie a go -- I laughed, I cheered and overall had a great time which is all I really ask of a movie!

Some people just don't like to leave a 1/10 in ratings because there's always something worse (there is something worse than this movie somewhere out there sadly). These are the people that saves movies like this to show a solid 1 as a rarting.

Thanks to fake raters this got as high as 4.5. That's the only way this movie could have gotten a score over 2 from anyone.

My guess here would be that the 10/10's are either from the crew behind this lousy movie or that they just bought some scores (probably a mix of both).

There is (at the time of writing this) 3 full reviews of this movie. Two of them give it the 1/10 it deserves with perfect explanations to why and one give it a 10/10 with glowing review that in no way is what this movie give you.

Strangely the 10/10 reviewer have a name made up like from a bot, is a week old account and only ever made a review on this movie.

I think that says it all.

NOW THE ACTUAL REVIEW OF THE MOVIE: It's crap and isn't even worth the time of a review. If I could give it a minus 10 I would.

Peace,

This is one of those movies that I was worried I'll be sad I won't be able to get the time spent back. My worries were confirmed. The plot was stupid, the fighting choreography was average at best and some of the action will only be acceptable by the mentally challenged. Women gets slashed in the back with a live Katana (she's visually in pain), and a few scenes latter her partner is like "you o.k.?" She says "yeah." The same thing happens later when she gets shot in the shoulder (the bullet went straight through) and her response is the same "yeah I'm o.k." After suffering through this mess, you are greeted with one of the most putrid endings in movie history. This seems to be a farce of real martial arts and actions movies. Clearly the people who put this out didn't have any friends to tell them this was bad idea.

I don't know where to begin. This movie is as dumb as it looks. I honestly do not understand why it was made. What was the market it was intended for? Who was the intended audience? These are questions that need to be answered.

Every once in a while I come back to the idea that Hollywood has the best business potential for money laundering schemes and this film reminds me of why that is. A Corp is set up to make the film, the dirty money slid under the table to the distributor, the distributor buys the film with the dirty money and sends it back to the dirty investors. Now the money is clean. That's the only explanation I can think of why this film exists. Literally nothing else makes sense.