Chi dan hao han

The Return of the Assassin is a plodding, martial arts, pot boiler with little to offer the viewer in the way of entertainment. While the opening scene of a school teacher getting gunned down in his classroom seems to promise a bloody good time, the film sadly takes a different direction. Instead the film slows down as it shows lack luster fights shot on a shoe string budget while attempting to tell the tale of Chinese resistance fighters. The film is shockingly slow with my copy being dubbed in English by a bunch of voice actors who all sound like they were sleeping through their performances. As is common even in bad martial arts films, final fights are the best but by no means do they justify the other 70 minutes of this movie.