Movie Information
Overall Rank: 7051
Average Rating: 2.8/4
# of Ratings: 8
Theatrical Release Date: 11/18/1993
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action, Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woo-ping Yuen
Actors: Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Siu-hou Chin, Fennie Yuen, Cheung-Yan Yuen, Shun Lau
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"Tai Chi Master" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 10/02/2012
Two childhood friends are expelled from their Shaolin monastery and find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict between freedom fighting rebels and the tyrant who is pursuing them. With Woo-ping Yuen in the director's chair and Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh as its stars, you'd expect a feast of martial arts mayhem from Tai Chi Master. You'd be damn right. Some of the frenetic action sequences are truly eye boggling (the amazing staff fights in particular, which were revisited by Yuen when he served as action director for The Matrix Trilogy) and the supporting cast including Siu-hou Chin and Fennie Yuen more than hold their own with the stars. There is also some nice Jackie Chan style humour in the opening scenes that has some genuine warmth and it thankfully avoids the kind of overwrought …
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