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Release Date: 14 November, 2000 Retail Price: $19.95 OUR Price: $17.96 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
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One to remember
Dreadnaught is really a film to remember and perhaps a piece worthy and notable in any collection. As a martial arts enthusiast I looked for impressive fight sequences, great technical choreography, and of course, originality. This film employs all these qualities. Yuen Biao is in top form as well as the legendary Kwan Tak Hing. The story line actually has more substance than the vanguard of films in this genre, and it embodies typical chinese humor and culture. The film marks one of the more notable ones in Yuen Biao's career, and the footage no doubt proves it. In respect to the previous reviews, I agree with Mr. Ryan and disagree with Phil. Perhaps he is right with his analysis of a different type of martial arts film in mind. This is a classic film, traditional, or rather, old school. For the enthusiasts out there or even the ones with questions-I emplore you, watch the film. My first image of it was a preview from a film I can't remember. That drove me to watch it and I consider it to be one of the greatest films of its type. By type I specifically mean traditional wu shu, no wire work, Chinese settings and time period, etc. If you enjoy, I recommend Drunken Master, Magnificent Butcher, and Young Master. Thanks for listening to one man's words.
... is wrong. Oh, so wrong...
I have to say, I'm no expert on Kung Fu movies, but I have been exposing myself to a wide variety of kung fu films in the past 5 years.. One of the movies that got me into Kung Fu films was this one.
I mean, you have to watch it and enjoy the fight scenes. They employ "fantasy" attacks like killer sleeves, etc.. but they don't rely on the wire-fu techniques that are so overdone.
Just a sidenote RE: Wire-fu: I'm not a crouching tiger fan, because I don't think that the movie deserves the praise that it is such a great movie. The only reason I don't completely vomit when they gave it a bloody oscar is that maybe the ignorant bloated american conciousness will see that there are great movies overseas.
But I digress. Dreadnaught was a very funny movie, and I have ordered the DVD version, as the only copy I have now was a used copy from a bankrupt video rental store.. and this one is worth owning! Until I actually came to Amazon looking for Kung Fu movies, I didn't think that this one would be available on DVD, because I've never seen it on the shelf anywhere. I consider this a treasure, and am overjoyed that I can get this in a high quality version.
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