Sammo Hung, Hoi San Lee, Pai Wei

A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons and is accused of raping the head of that school's goddaughter and ki...( read more  read more... )lling his son. Now Ko, the head of five dragons, wants revenge.

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PG-13, 103 min.

Directed by: Woo-ping Yuen, Sammo Hung

Release Date: June 1, 1998

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DVD Release Date: August 29, 2000

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  • February 19, 2008
    If anyone had any doubts about Sammo's skills, just check this one. The man seriously moves.
  • March 15, 2007
    The rotund butcher student of Wong Fei Hung (Kwan Tak0Hing), Lam sai-Wing (Sammo Hung) finds himself in trouble with Master Ko (Lee Hoi San), head of the rival Five Dragons School, after he inadvertedly beats up one of its members. At first this results in little more than tit-fo...( read more)r-tat skirmishes with Ko's son, Foon (Yuen Biao) but when his Goddaughter is kidnapped, an all out conflict erupts between the two houses.

    Combining slap-stick humour with agile fight scnes, director Yuen Woo-ping serves up a generous portion of highly entertaining Kung Fu cinema. Starring two of the legandary "Three Brothers" ( the other being Jackie Chan), both Hung and Biao are mesmorising as they chop, kick and slap their way through the numerous set-pieces. The choreography throughout is executed with style by all cast members and mixes amazing athleticism with cheeky (albeit cheesy) gags. The play may take something of a back seat at times but then when you are watching martial arts performed at such a high level you tend not to notice. Even the over-exuberant cracking sound-effect that accompanies every high speed move seems somehow appropriate.

    Magnificent Butcher will never be mistaken for high art but then the sole purpose of titles like this is to showcase the deft skills of those performing and to draw a chuckle or two from its audience. Thankfully it achieves both and should leave fans of Asian cinema seeking out more of Sammo and all's back catalogue. Highly recommend.
  • December 30, 2008
    If you're interested in seeing wall-to-wall kung fu action, you can't do much better than The Magnificent Butcher. There are enough well-choreographed fight sequences in this film to hypnotize even the worst sufferers of attention deficit disorder. Those unfamiliar with the marti...( read more)al arts prowess of Sammo Hung will be astonished by the remarkable agility and grace he demonstrates in scene after scene.



    The rest of the casting is pitch perfect; Fan Mei-Sheng, Lee Hoi-Sang, Yuen Biao and the rest all do their part in helping Magnificent Butcher stand out from the pack from the lesser chopsocky flicks that studios kept cranking out during the seventies.
  • September 15, 2008
    Sammo at his old-school best.
  • August 11, 2008
    one of the best kung fu movies ever made
  • July 27, 2008
    One of Sammo's best starring roles. One of my all time favorite kung fu movies. Constant fights in this movie.
  • August 22, 2007
    Another old school classic. A compelling plot with comedy and furious kung fu action

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