The Battle Wizard

This is one of those "so bad it's good" type of movies. Plot and editing are all over the place, as are action scenes, but that doesn't matter when people shoot laser beams from their hands and spit fire like dragons. It's a great to watch with your mate to laugh and question life while watching it. I give it 6/10 though. Not everyone can watch this and the movie has a very slow beginning. I recommend it just to hardcore fans of kung fu movies and bad movies!

Definitely along the lines of "Anything Goes" HK cinema, Battle Wizard starts crazy and remains that way to the very end. Convoluted story, strange characters, garish special effects and a snappy pace keep this film entertaining, that is if you go for this sort of thing.

This is the sort of movie that is immune to most commentary just by the obvious disregard the film makers have for normal movie making. Either you watch this sort of film or you don't. The only comment I can make is that whoever edited this film should have been sent back to the butcher shop to resume slicing tripe. It's some of the worst editing I ever have seen in a Shaw production.

Fun for an afternoon with friends.

THE BATTLE WIZARD is a wacky, effects-fuelled martial world romp from Shaw that once again features Danny Lee in a kind of superhero-style role. This one came out just four months after STAR WARS and may have been influenced by that film's reliance on then-cutting edge FX technology. It's a short, fast-paced little adventure, with a ton of action and bizarre touches to make it enjoyable; Chiang Tao's half-human terminator and the fighting gorilla are highlights here. The guy with metal legs is also a hoot, and Tien Ni has a great role as a conflicted femme fatale.

This is one of the crazy ones, along the lines of Buddha's Palm or Holy Flame of the Martial World, though not as fun or inventive. Danny Lee plays a scholar who is uninterested in kung fu, who pursues the "Red Python" which can grant great power. His task is complicated by his philandering father, the cute Lin Chen-chi and her magical snakes, and angry Tanny Tien-ni and her dagger-shooting leg bone.

The movie is filled wacky costumes, fake monsters, goofy visual effects, and kung fu "laser" beams. As short as it is, it still gets a bit bogged down in dialogue and exposition. Still, there's enough craziness along the way to hold you until the mind-blowing ending , which features Danny Lee fighting a kung fu gorilla, and a man on retractable metal chicken legs who fires flames out of his mouth. Worth watching, at least for the ending.

I hate this movie so much that I love it. This is easily the worst story I've ever seen, the worst editing, and the weirdest movie that I'm currently aware of. The acting is fine, but literally everything else is just awful. 10/10. Would play at my wife's funeral.