Customer Rating: 
Summary: Old' Skool" Kung Fu!!
Comment: Unfortunately I have to respectfully dissagree with my amazon collague,,,"morgoth dude',,,
I saw this flick " The wandering Monk aka Shaolin Monk Fighs Back" in my early teen,,and remember really enjoying it. After searing high and low for this flick,,I came across it in Paris, France in 2004. This is not your typical 5 star movie, but more like 4 stars,,,,but for me,,this flick was one of the few which really developed my passion for old school kung fu,,therefore, I cannot give it anything less than 5 stars!! The old school kung fu is absolutely amazing,,if you enjoy the crane style,,this movie depict that immensely. The fight scenes are frequent and nothing less than amazing, the story is great and the choreography off the chizzel!! Rest assured,,,you can't, and will not go wrong with this one in your collection!!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: 2.5, but just not enough to give it a 3
Comment: This movie really caught me by surprised at the start and I thought it was going to be a classic. The soundtrack is pretty good and sounds like an original one.
The movie starts out with this monk guy who reminds me a hell of a lot like david carradine;s character. Now this guy can actually fight. But just like everyone else in the film, he isn't any good at acrobatics. So when they do the yuen biao style tumble, it just sucks and is way too slow. EXCEPT THE KID. I loved the kid and if they could have thrown in a couple of more cool things like him, this would be a lost classic. So the kid tumbles all around and sadly has like the best fights in teh movie. The yin yang villian looks really cool, and is a good fighter. it's just that nobody here is superb and the choreographer does a lot of very tired stuff. The ending was a little surprising, only helped boost it to a 2. So if you wanna see david carradine in an actual kung fu movie, this is the closest thing you are going to get.
Picture quality is actually pretty decent, fuzzy and a bit shaky of course. And the soundtrack I would also describe as a bit fuzzy but still pretty good music when they actually play it.
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