Return of the Scorpion / Rivals of the Silver Fox: Here is the last of my recent buys over at Yankee One Dollar and again I am presented with two mind numbingly bad films.

Return of the Scorpion is titled as if it were a sequel of some kind, although there appears to no other "Scorpion" films with which to link it to. Perhaps those who would choose English titles just thought it sounded cool. What we do have is a rather bland film with the same plot that all the other films have. Since no one watches these films for drama, I'll limit the rest of my comments to the kung fu itself.

The kung fu shown was rather nice with various styles on display. The fights were choreographed pretty much average compared to other films of the time. Of course we did have some nice talent such as Casanova Wong and Pan Pan Yeung (aka the female version of Jackie Chan) so we should expect a lot. If you want to skim the film for some good fights, be my guest but it is a bit too bland to recommend.

Rivals of the Silver Fox is more of the same kung fu drudgery that reviewing DVDs entails. I've often said that I would love to be a film critic if not for the fact that I'd have to watch a lot of awful moves. With my little hobby here I still have to but at least I can stop the movie halfway and consider it watched and rated crap. That's what I did with Silver Fox deserved or not.

Labels: Dollar DVD, Hong Kong