In Five Superfighters, the Black Caped Villain (Kwan Fung) goes around to different kung fu schools and fights their students in order to correct their bad kung fu. After they’re defeated, the students of the monkey kung fu school (Austin Wai, Ng Yuen-Jun, and Tony Leung Siu Hung) want to regain their reputation so they decide to go learn different styles from other teachers and return to have a rematch with the Black Caped Villain.
Five Superfighters is essentially a 95-minute long fightfest with very short breaks for comic relief. The fight scenes are spectacular and the main stars get to show off their incredible acrobatics. The five main actors (including Hau Chiu-Sing) are fantastic in the fight scenes, which is good because the action takes up maybe two-thirds of the entire movie. A lot of the fight scenes are accompanied with a funky soundtrack which I personally thought added to the fun.
But still, there are many problems with this movie, especially the lack of a story. The main characters are all one-dimensional and extremely dull. The filmmakers seem much more focussed on choreographing creative fight scenes than trying to flesh out the characters. Even though the fights were very inventive and fun, you never really care who’s going to win because we don’t know much about any of the characters. Unsurprisingly, the comic relief isn’t terribly memorable either.
Despite a below basic story and characters, I still think this movie is enjoyable due to the fight scenes and the soundtrack which take up most of the runtime. Five Superfighters isn’t a great movie by any means, but as a insignificant action fix, it succeeds tremendously.
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Five Superfighters is essentially a 95-minute long fightfest with very short breaks for comic relief. The fight scenes are spectacular and the main stars get to show off their incredible acrobatics. The five main actors (including Hau Chiu-Sing) are fantastic in the fight scenes, which is good because the action takes up maybe two-thirds of the entire movie. A lot of the fight scenes are accompanied with a funky soundtrack which I personally thought added to the fun.
But still, there are many problems with this movie, especially the lack of a story. The main characters are all one-dimensional and extremely dull. The filmmakers seem much more focussed on choreographing creative fight scenes than trying to flesh out the characters. Even though the fights were very inventive and fun, you never really care who’s going to win because we don’t know much about any of the characters. Unsurprisingly, the comic relief isn’t terribly memorable either.
Despite a below basic story and characters, I still think this movie is enjoyable due to the fight scenes and the soundtrack which take up most of the runtime. Five Superfighters isn’t a great movie by any means, but as a insignificant action fix, it succeeds tremendously.
Images from HKMDb