Props to the Iron Fists!

Title: The Man with the Iron Fists

Release date: November 2012.

Summary:
A shipment of gold has all the villains running down to town to claim the shiny.

Or real Kung-Fu don't actually work like this in a nutshell.

Commentary:
Am I on a movie-watching spree? Possibly.

Tricked by the Quentin Tarantino name splayed around the film, my friend T and me ran to catch the film just after my Stats midterm (which I did great on btw, gold star for kuro!) Not that there was much regret because it could be passed off as a QT film.

• Outrageous to the max: yes! 
• Artfully violent with intense sprays of blood: definitely! 
• Sexy: honestly? Quite! (But I mean there were ass-kicking prostitutes, T and I already agreed you just can't go wrong with that one.) 
• And non-stop fight sequences? Fuck yes!

It was visually appealing, and that in itself is already enough to cover the weak plot. Because let's face it, this is just a bunch of cliches wrapped into another nice gift box and then stabbed through with a pair of chopsticks.

It also has enough lame Asian groupie names to last several movies (Jungle Village? Golden Lion? Silver Lion? Bronze Lion? Brass Body? Madame Blossom? Poison Dagger? Oh trust me, I can go on. Trust me that this is all for real too. I am not making this shit up, couldn't if I tried really.)

But I think that is the charm: While there were definitely times when you wanted to point at the screen and say what the actual fuck to the fight 'sequences' that were happening (I drew that line when eyeballs are being punched out of people's head), it looked good and it entertained super well.

There was never a dull moment, though one could definitely classify it as a mess. Too much going on with little lot actually pushing the story forward. And for an 18+ film (we totally got our IDs checked...) there was no nudity. Hm. Everything was surprisingly covered up even when there was sex.

However, there was the weirdest mix of English and Chinese. But maybe that's only weird for me because I speak both so there's a chance that everyone else won't find this as much of a weird quirk than me.