Catagory - Taiwanese Kung fu
Director   -  I have no idea, but he got paid for this movie, so he's smarter then I.
Reason for being made - Some stories must be told, this isn't one ( I mean a story).
Rating - Teen

Scale Rating - 10 Plot - I use the term plot very loosly here. This movie suffers from one major flaw, it really isn't about anything. Sure theres the under lying theme of revenge which every chinese movie has. The Silver Spear however doesnt' make sense. I'v seen this flix abotu 12 times, so here's my expert summery.    Jade palace is having a contest of heros. All 4 heros show up in snow valley. Silver spear digs a grave for himself and pledges to die because he is realy in love with Sharon. Fast steed (whos name I thought was false deed till the second time I saw it) shows up on a horse. Red leaf and Green Lotus have a freindly fight, then share a drink with Silver Spear. After abiut 3 minutes of endless speacj making, Red leaf says "I'v been poisioned, I must get revenge", then dies and falls into Silver Spears grave. Green Lotus says "Me too" and falls into the grave. Silver Spear decides he two has infact been poisioned and falls in his now full grave. The judges of the contest (ghet ready here are their names) Old master, young master, big hawk, master jade and silver hair show up and save Silver Spear (ignoring the other guys). fast steed gets blamed for the crime, and thus he escapes.

Left to Right- Old Master, Silver Hair, Young master (not a nazi)
    The rest of the movie follows the same. Silver Spear digs a grave with his silver spear every chance he gets (silver shovel would have been a better name). But do to some cruel twist of fate, Silver Spear never gets to use his graves. Fast steed continues his wanderings and meets a master of disquise (well, she wears different hats) name Chalice (who turns out to be a booze hound of some sort). Then theres this Madame Wu Lu who is with some secret begger society, I'm not sure why.
    If this wasn't bad enough, Fast steed keeps meeting witht he judges (mentioned above) and fighting them. Big hawk shows that he really can fly, but this leads to his death at the hands of Silver shov...I mean Spear. Jsut when the movie is getting a tad oput of hand the single most unexpected villian shows up.
   No 13 is not just a vampire, he's not jsut the main (?) villan of this movie, but he's a horrible cripple persian vampire with the biggest vampire teeth I'v ever seen. His name is really Master 13, but they call him no 13, theres 13 reasons for this.
  1. He has no peers
  2. He has no family
  3. He has no home
  4. He has no money
The rest of the list was of No (haha) importance. Actualy, I think it was of No (hehe) value to what little plot there was.
    Well, theres several more inturesting character in this movie, but to do this review right, I'd need about 5 megs of space. Perhapse another day then.

    By Time this movie ends, you should have No (opps) idea whats going on. The end has nothing to do with the start, some where in the middle, the movie decideds that some of the main characters actualy know (almost) the answer to the whole mystery and could have solved it from the start (which might have been a good idea).

    Fast Steed moves in for the kill

Points of Inturest - Who wrote this one? Some insane Taiwanese writer got paid for this. I find it amazine that this films was made (well not really, now that I'v see a lot of Taiwanese Kung-Fu movies, it's not so amazine). Watch out for the Moon in this movie, some one had a good idea. Make sure listen to the drinking conversation between Fast Steed and Chalice. (My god, your obsessed with sharon). Also watch very closly when Fast Steed eats at Silver Spears house, this part of the movie is at best creepy, just watch the movie, you'll see.

Thanks to a freind I know now the real title is Blood Soaked Silver Spear, which is still a bad name, A better title would be "The story with no plot in which things happen."
 

Other Taiwanses Movies you might enjoy....
Kung-fu Vampire busters
The Noble Ninja
Legendary Swordsman

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