Set in the waning years of the Ching Dynasty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic, blood-soaked martial arts tale of betrayal and revenge explores one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history and marked the true ascension of its director and actors to superstar status.
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Blood Brothers But Not Loyal Brothers!,
Blood Brothers was decent Shaw film for plot and storyline, but it wasn’t a hard hitter in the martial arts department.
The film is actually based on a well documented incident during the Ching Dynasty. In it Chang Wen (David Chiang) and Huang Chung (Chen Kuan Tai) are friends who work as bandits. Huang also happens to be married to Mi Lan, an attractive girl, but she’s too conservative for Huang’s tastes. As a result, he tends to spend most of his time with other women who prefer his wild approach to life. Mi Lan is aware of his cheating however and it creates a greater divide between them as the movie progresses.
Eventually Ma Hsin (Ti Lung)happens down the road where the two men are waiting to rob him. While Huang and Chang attempt to fight him on the road, Mi Lan sneaks up on the scene and rides off with his silver on her horse. Chang and Huang also retreat confident that they go away with their robbery without a hitch. Soon afterward though Ma Hsin tracks them down. To their surprise he doesn’t t try to fight them again. Instead he convinces Huang and Chang to join him in an effort to do more with their lives, somehting their ancestors could be proud of. The three of them band together as blood brothers and take out the local bandit leader. Then they take charge of the bandit cheifs men. Soon they start the process of training the group in Kung Fu while they also teach them to become more respectable in society.
As time goes by however,the divide between Huang and Mi Lan grows. She feels discarded by him as he chases around other women. However her and Ma Hsin begin to become attracted to one another. Realizing that the new love triangle could ruin there Blood Brother status, Ma Hsin decides to leave. Chang seems to be aware of the situation though, while Haung is oblivious to the whole idea that his wife has fallen for a Ma Hsin. He doesn’t pay attention to her enough to notice.
Five years pass by and Ma Hsin becomes a respected general in the army. He’s assinged the task of taking out the local rebel bands scattered around the country. He realizes that he needs help though so he calls on his Blood Brothers to join him. Together the three of them win several battles over the rebels and their reputations rise greatly, particuarly Ma Hsin’s. Ma Hsin and Mi Lan are still attrated to one another though and eventually they act on it. Meanwhile Chang realizes what’s going on between them and is torn about what to do. His best friend’s wife is now cheating on him with his other blood brother. Ma Hsin must also worry about the growing gossip which could effect his reputation as a general. Betrayal, anger and fights follow as the blood brothers try to sort through their differences. The film sorts itself out in the end, I won’t spoil it for you.
Well Blood Brothers had a very strong plot and storyline to it. I found the whole love triangle theme with a third person on the side lines viewing it from his point of view interesting.
While the film has a decent storyline and big name kung fu stars, it fails to have great kung fu action. We do get to see several fights though both with and without weapons, but the film was definately focusing more on the plot. So hard core kung fu fans may be disappointed by this one.
The tech aspects include the film in Mandrian with eng subtitles and an English dubbed track. The picture quality is good and the film is presented in widescreen. No other features appear except for a trailer of another film.
Overall I gave the film a four. It had a good storyline to it and held together well, likely because it was based on a ture story. The acting is good, and I actually liked David Chiang in the film the best. The Kung Fu could have been stronger, but there was enough to carry the film through to the end and at least they wern’t just mindless brawls every ten minutes. A good rental if you like Shaw Bros films with a strong plot, or an ok film if you don’t mind lower level choreographed fights.
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Horrible, absoloutely horrible, you only sell these types of films when your really low on cash. The plot sucks, and theres hardly any fighting in it. Oh yeah, and it’s in catonese just like the other so-called, “kung fu” films I ordered and only one of them was in english 2.0 stereo/mono. Please for the love of god, let buyers know what language a kung fu film is in.
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