![]() He brings his daughter Ning (Xu Jiao) to Wu Dang Mountain to compete in an invitation-only fighting tournament (shades of Yuen’s D.O.A.). A happy medium between semi-believable and total magic. The style of the action is very Corey Yuen – not realistic, lots of wires, but mostly no flying. ![]() This is great because he’s wearing a pinstrip suit, a bow tie, round glasses and white gloves and he’s leaping through the air, punching through walls, crushing guys’ legs in doors. Then it’s “well, gotta be going now fellas” as he tries to walk away with the map, which means he has to fight his way out. He identifies it as a fraud, but the carrying case is apparently real because he breaks it open and pulls out a map to 7 treasures on the Wu Dang Mountain. In the opening he goes to appraise a legendary ancient sword, like Steven Seagal does on the weekends. Tang Yunlong, a sort of more buttoned down Indiana Jones type of treasure hunter. Vincent Zhao, star of TRUE LEGEND, plays Dr. ![]() The director is Patrick Leung (THE TWINS EFFECT II), the action choreographer is the great Corey Yuen. WU DANG is not only an alternate spelling of “Wu Tang” and an excellent new exclamation to use, but also a nice period martial arts picture that just came to the region 1 DVD.
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