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I can't remember this Kung Fu/Action/Adventure/Comedy movie
by Timmy Toskas
I saw this movie back in the mid to late 80's when I was a kid from a VHS rental my dad picked and also saw it again playing on some channel on cable. I don't remember the name of it but I remember how it starts off and remember bits and pieces of scenes. The movie is either a Chinese/Hong Kong production or either from some other Asian countries. This one was dubbed in English. It starts off showing different characters (they are the heroes/protagonists in the movie to begin), each a different scene showing a brief back story of what happened to them and how they wound up in a jail cell. One of the guys is walking home from work or something, walks in through his door and finds his wife murdered on the floor, then some guys jump out and he starts fighting. Then it jumps to the next guys back story and so on. This prob goes on for maybe 5-10 minutes. A handful of the characters are introduced like this. So next scene I remember is that a bunch of those guys are locked up in the same cell/prison. They all kinda talk about what happened to them. They decide to break out and they do. All this about 15 minutes into the movie. Please note that they are on foot, the surroundings and everything in the movie looks like it's taking place maybe in the 1800's or before there were any technological stuff like cars,trains etc...Anyways they are walking trying to get somewhere so they are on some kind of path. One of the 1st bad boss battles they encounter is a duo (2 guys wearing some sort of tarzan type cloths maybe it's leopard skin or something I don't remember clear) the one guy is big and the other guy is slimmer. the slimmer guy jumps on the shoulders of the bigger guy and stands on him. They are like a human version of Transformers lol. Anyways those 2 fight against the good guys or maybe 1 or 2 of them starts fighting so it's like 2 on 2 but I don't remember. Anyways they beat them and advance. Oh by the way there is a girl with them too I think she was in the cell too in the beginning. At some point in the movie they are crouching/crawling or ducking from some enemy, the girl that's with them happens to have a hole in her pants and one of the guys behind here starts to chuckle (he's a perv or something lol) and he reaches out and sticks his finger in the hole touching the girl. She slaps him and gets yelled at also but the other guys. It had some goof ball comedy stuff like that going on but it's more on the action and fighting adventure style movie. Fast forward to the end, they get to this valley where there are like 50 or 100 soldiers/gang whatever they were and the leader is a bigger and taller guy who is real strong. The main good guy from our escaped prisoners takes him on. At first he is always getting beat up and all.The big bad boss guy seems too strong and gets a good grip on him all the time, so our main character looks around and takes one of the oil pans that the bad guys have on stands (possibly either for lighting at night???) so he spills the whole pan all over himself and covers himself in oil. He then beats the end boss because he keeps slipping so they can get a grip on him hehe. The main guy almost looks like Bruce Lee from what I can remember but isn't. I think he was wearing a brown leather v-vest no buttons in front or anything it was just open. I tried skimming through a ton of Shaw Brothers films and couldn't find it. I searched even the Bruce Lee rip off guy Bruce Le and couldn't see anything similar in his movie list either. Can anyone help me out here? |