This is a Beggar So tale. At least, that's what they tell me. Anyway. Vincent Zhao stars as Su, a awesome general who just wants to go be with his family and start a wushu school. So when he's offered a governorship, he hands it over to his adopted brother, played by Andy On. Then, as we get a little further in, it turns out that Andy On is still butthurt about Su's father killing HIS father for dabbling in a dangerous art called Five Venom Fists. So, when he comes back after some years, Su has married his adopted sister (Zhou Xun) and has a kid.

Well, Andy On does some evil things, and beats Su up and throws him in the river. His wife jumps in after. They're later rescued by Michelle Yeoh's doctor character and similar to the Stephen Chow story, Su just lays around and drinks, wallowing in his broken arm. But then, he gets motivated to save their son, and so as he's wandering around the mountain, he runs into the God of Wushu, played horrifyingly enough by Jay Chou. Let me just pause to say that Jay Chou should not be anywhere near any movie EVER. He's an awful actor and mumbles his lines like a drunk person or a retard.

But anyway. The plot proceeds in a logical direction, obviously Su learns kickass skills and uses them to beat on Andy On. And then there's a second part to the film that I don't really get. It was like a scene from Fearless and further, it seemed like it skipped forward a ton of years, Idek. However, I won't keep babbling on about that, because here is why you should watch this movie. THE FIGHTS. The fights were insanely awesome. Probably some of the best fights I've ever seen crammed into one 2 hour movie. Vincent Zhao is an irl martial artist and so is Andy On, so their final fight was epic. And the one with the wrestlers at the end was too.

And there you have it. Regardless of the odd plot stuff or Jay Chou's irritating presence, none of that can take away from how awesome all the fights were. And honestly, it was pretty close to 2 hours of fighting. There wasn't a ton of exposition or ~touching~ scenes. So if you like kung-foolishness as much as I do, you HAVE TO see this movie.

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