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Fire Dragon
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List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $14.50
Your Save: $ 10.45 ( 42% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Ocean Shores
Starring: Joe Chu, Sandra Ng Kwan Yue, Siu Chung Mok, Lap-Man Sin, Brigitte Lin
Directed By: Woo-ping Yuen
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0601643362243
Format: Color
Label: Ocean Shores
Manufacturer: Ocean Shores
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Ocean Shores
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2000-10-10
Running Time: 90
Studio: Ocean Shores
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Totally Amazing!
Comment: This has got to be one of the most amazing movie I have ever seen. The Action is none stop, and the plot is pretty good to. With Evil turning good. This Action packed Kung Fu Amazement is Amazing. There are some fire scenes in this movie that must has been very dangerous. I can't imagine doing any of these for a movie.
You can see from the others how amazing it is. I just want to say Get it!
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Summary: The best fighting movie from woo-ping of all time!!!
Comment: I have seen many Kung-Fu movies in my time and Fire Dragon ranks #2 on my list of the best fighting kung-fu movie of all time. Woo-ping throws everyhting but the kitchen sink at you in this one.
Brigitte Lin stars as Fire Dragon an unstoppable assassin who uses her hands as flame-throwers and can ignite her sword while weilding it. Her job is to eliminate a master swordsman (Max Mok) who has evidence that will bring down a powerful Fire-master, Prince-Six. This movie strikes a perfect balance between being serious and funny much like Wing Chun. Just when things get too serious, the comic relief is a welcome change, then when the movie starts to drag a bit it gets serious again.
Although the story is good, what seperates this movie from the rest is the superb acting and fighting. Brigitte lin's acting as well as her fighting in this movie is just as convincing as her role in swordsman 2 as invincible asia. Max Mok does a convincing job as a hero and Kwan Ng almost steals the show with her comedic performance.
But what makes this movie shine are the fight scenes. The fighting in this movie has to be seen to be believed. From all the martial-arts movies I have seen, and I have seen many, only one movie has better fight scenes than this. What else would you expect from Woo-ping the great. For example, there is a ferocious fight scene in the forest between Fire Dragon and her best friend Snow, an equally deadly assassin who uses bow and arrows and a grappling chain no less, that features all kinds of destruction including fire-balls, exploding nets and the leveling of trees- great stuff. But the final fight scene, unlike most movies which is a let-down, is absolutely spectacular and the best in the movie. The skill of Prince-Six is frightful as he more than holds his ground against a master swordsman, a baton-wielding, dynamite throwing kung-fu master and Fire Dragon herself-WOW. If I have to rank my top 5 fighting Kung-fu movies of all time, it would be (5)Tai-Chi Master (4)Iron Monkey (3) Swordsman II (2)Fire Dragon (1)Blade of Fury.
In closing, Fire Dragon is a very stylish, hyper-kinetic kung-fu movie, with a good story, great acting and memorable, creative fight scenes that no self-respecting kung-fu fan should be without. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Fire Dragon
Comment: Very good movie! I bought it after reading some reviews and was real curious about the action. The fight scenes are quite good (not as many as I'd like) the story was pretty decent too! I chuckled at a few scenes. Decent humor. The special effects with the fire were done very well and the fight with snow at the very end was amazing! Not too many people know about this gem! I'm glad this movie is in my collection!
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Summary: Great Kung Fu Action!
Comment: Fire Dragon is the story of a young man, who stumbles across a dying imperial guard, and is entrusted with a secret letter which implicates Prince Six, a local governor, in a plot to overthrow the prime minister/emperor. (Is there any other kind of evil plot?) Honor bound to carry the message to the imperial court he begins his journey unaware that he also being stalked by Ah Hsia (Brigitte Lin) , Fire Dragon, a beautiful assassin employed by Prince Six. On the way, the young man takes shelter with a group of circus performers, forcing Fire Dragon to infiltrate the acting group herself. Through friendship with the performers, Fire Dragon begins to question her loyalty to Prince Six. I really enjoyed Fire Dragon. While it wasn't a particularly deep film, I found the fight scenes to be spectacular, and the acting by Brigitte Lin, Sandra Ng, and Max Mok, to be top notch. The comic relief provided by Ng, and the circus performers, was great! (I loved the way Ng brow-beats her troupe!) Also, I found Fire Dragon's duel with her best friend, Snow, moving. This was a great Kung Fu, film with plenty of action. Excellent.
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Summary: Oh my goodness!!! This movie is incredible!
Comment: Get this movie. Plain and simple. From Fire Dragon chopping people and seting them on fire, to a cop using dynamite as num-chuks to the Prince slapping a sword through his own body to hit someone else, this movie has it all! There's a girl shooting arrows out of her clothes, a guy running around on his hands because his legs are paralyzed, and a little bit of a love story too. Prince Six is one of the hardest bad guys I have ever seen. He's worse than Donnie Yen from Dragon Inn!! He's fighting a master swordsman, a dynamite hurling supercop and a flying fighter whose hands are on fire... I give this my highest recomendation!
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