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Stars: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Chan Kwok Pong, Yeung Pan Pan

Director: Sammo Hung

1997, Hong Kong

 

In search of a better life Wong Fei Hong (Jet Li) moves to America with his fiancee (Rosamund Kwan) and his friend and sidekick, Seven (Chan Kwok Pong). Trying to fight back some indians he hits his head and loses his memory. He's separeted from his friends and ends up in an indian village. One day in town he meets his fiancee and starts to remember who he is. Back with his people he finds them being harassed and taken adventage of by some cowboys.

 

Sammo Hung directs this "wild wild kung fu west" movie. He always wanted to make a cowboy movie, and here it is Sammo's first cowboy movie with a lot of kung fu in it of course. This is also said to be the most expensive Hong Kong movie ever done! Sammo also captures how it could've been for the Chinese to arrive in such a different country showing both rasist and friendly situations.

What I had heard about this movie was that it had bad fights but I thought most of them where great. Wires are overused of course, but that I already knew. What I liked was seeing the small Chinese kicking some cowboy ass.

The main theme (the Wong Fei Hong theme) is just great mixing Chinese with Indian music.

Chan Kwok Pong is just awesome with his flashy kicks, it's so cool seeing him beating up a bar full of cowboys. The pole fight between him and Jet is great.

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