SYNOPSIS:
A martial artist loses an arm in combat but recovers to take revenge on the fighters that did it.
Living up to the second part of their name, Eureka Entertainment’s latest addition to their ‘Classics’ line is
One Armed Boxer from 1972 and what a treat it is, especially if grindhouse kung-fu movies with sound cues from the
James Bond movies and the theme tune from
Shaft peppered throughout are your thing.
Because if they’re not then One Armed Boxer will have no appeal whatsoever as the movie throws you straight into the action within the first few minutes and doesn’t really let up or break formula for the rest of its 93-minute runtime – somebody talks, a fight breaks out, there is a major injury that ends it, move to another location, somebody talks, a fight breaks out, ad infinitum. It may not sound like much when put like that but
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Jimmy Wang Yu went into exile in Taiwan to direct One-Armed Boxer, and its action-packed style made it entertaining
The film’s main draw is the international fighters, using an array of different fighting styles, that Wang’s character must face to avenge his disfigurement
Some of the actors were real martial artists, and the fight scenes are very good – gritty, sometimes brutal and so realistic they look like gangster fights
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