The direction is steady, the story well told. The training parts while probably not realistic are entertaining and don't bore. The martial arts in this film are amazing and every bit as impressive as stuff done today. Well lets face it I not sure a woman is in this movie at all. It is impossible to imagine Hollywood making movie that includes forty minutes of Buddhist philosophy, training and no love story. Can this man driven by anger complete training in Buddhist temple where his motivations are against the very basics of there teachings. So this epic film, a 2 hour chop socky flick that's story takes place over 10 years, has a interesting plot. The 35th chamber of shoalin is the highest level and it is not a measure of strength of combat ability. At the shoalin temple they are masters of martial arts but they stay out of worldly affairs. They decide that if they are going to effectively fight back what they learn at the university is not enough.
When Gordon Liu and his fellow students ask them selves how can they defeat their violent enemy words of logic. It is a lesson the non-violent resistors of the world need to here again and again. While the true story probably did not have the elements of revenge that make the story of the film that hardly manners this is a movie not a history class. 36th chamber tells a fictionalized tale of the shoalin monk who broke rank with his temple and taught Kung Fu to the people. The new re-issues have some of his other classics like executioners from shoalin(which Kill Bill 2 paid direct tribute to),8 diagram pole fighter and soon Legendary weapons of China. Director Liu Chia liang's masterpiece the 36th chamber was my first purchase in the series. Original language, subtitled well, subtitled bonus features, Dolby surround, Beautifully re-mastered and packaged. Perhaps the best geek news of 2003 for me however was Celestial pictures releasing region 3 versions of old Shaw bros classics. Knowing that any video that said Shoalin Master killer or just Master killer would be a English dubbed atrocity I decided to wait. 36th Chamber of shoalin As a lifelong devoted fan of chop socky I still did not see this film until last year because it was impossible in the U.S.(at least it seemed to me) to get a orginal language 36th Chamber of shoalin.
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