The New Legend of Shaolin

This movie was made 20 years ago when Jet Li was still young, probably at his physical peak. It's a fun kung fu film about a man revenging for the slayings of his family and friends. The little kid who plays his son can do a few showy kicks, and there're some funny moments between father and son. The action sequences are nonstop. Even though they're truly over-the-top, more so than many other kung fu flicks, they're fun to watch, as long as you don't take things seriously. I'm no kung fu film lover, but my kids love this film and have watched it over a dozen times. I like it, too.That said, the DVD I ordered from seller dealcatcher2014 appears to be a bootlegged copy. It's an English dubbed version, with no subtitles, even though my media player reports the presence of a Japanese subtitles track but it's not visible! The back of the jewel case mixes English with Chinese and then gives the specs in Japanese! Video quality is quite poor, reminiscent of VCD quality. The English dub is okay but sound quality is poor. It's cheap, but high-quality DVDs for A-list American and HK movies that sell for the same or less can be found everywhere.

I really enjoyed this movie! It combines the political intrique of Swordsman II with the comedic elements of Fong Sai Yuk (which also had a political underpinning). This is a fantasy style movie with plenty of wirework and unlikely physics. If you like that style of movie, then you should love this one!Jet Li (Hung) and his son Man Ting are on the run from government soldiers. Jet Li has plenty of good (and serious!) advice for his son, like "show no mercy" and "don't lose your temper, but if you do, then lose it". In a way, Jet Li and his son are playing the straight men in this movie.Red Bean and her mother are infamous thieves who trick foolish men out of their fortunes. It turns out that they are kung fu artists of considerable skill too (no match for Jet Li of course, but who is?). They target Mr Ma, who has just hired Jet Li to protect him. These two provide a lot of the comic relief. Mother Red Bean reminds me a lot of Fong Sai Yuk's mother.The villians are the evil government soldiers (who die by the hundred), an evil eunuch (of course), and someone from Jet Li's past who has turned himself into a Poisonous Man and drives around in what looks like a metal rat-car!Anyway, the movie was very funny. The fight scenes were well done and impressive, as were the special effects. Definately a high quality movie.The video quality was pretty good. It is widescreen, but not anamorphic. The movie has either Cantonese or Mandarin soundtracks, with English subtitles. The subtitles are in the movie however (as opposed to a separate subtitle track on the DVD) and are sometimes hard to read.

This movie is not a masterpiece, but it is a good guilty pleasure. I like seeing a half-rotten man driving in a little car that looks like it was made from tin foil. Actually this movie is pretty good. Jet Li fights mainly with a spear that seems to do everything possible. The kids fight and look really cute. And yes, even the rotting man and his car have a strange appeal. What you should know about this disk is that it was obviously taken from a VHS copy and put onto DVD. The video quality is pretty bad. But really the worst part is the subtitles. There are hard subtitles that cannot be removed. In addition there are Chinese subtitles also on the screen. IF you are used to the VHS Jet Li movies you also know of the other problems with this: they are really small and tend to go off the edge of the screen. But if you are used to Jet Li movies, you can deal with these errors. I just with the publisher used the advantages of the DVD format more.

I am a big collector of Jet Li movies and always have to get the perfect copy. I originally ordered the 2001 copy listed here. It has a different cover than whats pictured. The video quality is poor and subtitles are burnt on. I then did research and ordered the universe copy of new legend of shaolin which is decent with removable subtitles. However I was always curious about the tai-seng 2006 copy listed on this site. I could never find any one commenting on picture quality etc of this edition so i finally broke down and bought it even though i had the universal copy. The 2006 tai seng copy listed on amazon has removable subtitles good picture quality and a really good commentary. So pay a couple extra dollars to get the tai seng 2006 release as opposed to the 2001 release and you will be glad you did.

Lots of action

Great movie but this was clearly a bootleg copy and doesnt play on anything but my xbox. Poor quality too. Don't buy this.

Completely in Chinese. No way to change setting on movie.

This movie was astonishing. I laughed until it hurt at several points while watching it, the result of awful subtitles (obviously never reviewed by an english speaker) translating bizarre dialogue. For me, the plot and action were subsumed by the humor-intentional and not-of most scenes. This movie must be seen to be believed.

This film is also known as red dragon (that version is a english dubbed ,)l hated it,This version of film chinese languages with english subtitles is much better,its about father & son revengeing killing of there village, the child kung fu actors are all good,likeable,the one who plays is son is very good, its funny in places,