WARRIORS TWO

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Stars: Sammo Hung, Casanova Wong, Leung Kar Yan, Fong Hark On
Director: Sammo Hung

1978, Hong Kong, Golden Harvest

When Wah "The Money Changer" (Casanova Wong) hears that Banker Mo (Fong Hark On) is about to kill the Alderman, he quickly tries to tell him but is stopped and tricked by Mentor Chui. Hua gets beaten up and seeks refugee at Wing Chun master Leung Jan's (Leung Kar Yan) home. He begs to become his student and after weeks he's accepted to learn Wing Chun.

 

Casanova’s kicks are very good, but after learning Wing Chun he doesn’t do much of that. He plays the famous Wing Chun stylist Wah the money changer who learned Wing Chun from Leung Jan by peeping through his door and then by impressing him he became his student. But on the tape it says cashier Hua and not Wah the Money Changer. Anyway, He has a fight with the other Taekwondo stylist, which is Tiger Yang; Tiger plays the evil Thunder Tai and is (surprisingly) a pretty good actor too.

Beardy (Leung) plays the famous Wing Chun master and physician Leung Jan who was known as "Wing Chun King of Kung Fu". But, he doesn't really have the Wing Chun skills for a role like that.

Sammo's Wing Chun isn't good either, I wouldn't even call it Wing Chun, but still he's his sympathetic self.

Li Hai Sheng has a small but impressive role as the muscular Flag Chao. His body sounds like iron when somebody hits him and I think this is the coolest role I've seen him in.

Oh, I almost forgot, Lau Kar Wing cameos as the Alderman’s assistant but fights only once making some strange monkey looking moves. He's great.

Fong Hak On is very good as the evil Mr. Mo and does some mantis at the end.

The guy who plays the monkey stylist in "7 Grandmasters" (Chien Yueh Sheng) has a role here as "Three horned beetle". His Wing Chun isn't really Wing Chun either. He also plays one of the sword brothers who appear at the end of the film.

 

Anyway, the story here is made up and doesn't really follow the Wing Chun legend, it would've been funnier to see the real story.

This movie had above average plot and some nice choreography, but unfortunately it wasn’t as good as it said on the MIHK sleeve (best kung fu movie ever!), still it's not a bad movie (rather the contrary) and deserves a look.

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