CompleteMartialArts.com - New Legend of Shaolin
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $7.23
Your Save: $ 7.72 ( 52% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Starring: Sung Young Chen, Chuen-Hua Chi, Damian Lau, Jet Li, Eric Tsang
Directed By: Corey Yuen
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0601643357447
Format: Color
Label: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Tai Seng
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2001-01-23
Running Time: 95
Studio: Tai Seng
Theatrical Release Date: 1994
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Editorial Reviews:
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Martial arts master Jet Li stars in this high-kicking historical revenge spectacular as a kung fu student trained at a Shaolin monastery. Li joins rebel forces in an attempt to overthrow the ruling oppressors and is betrayed by a fellow student.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Humor and Good Fighting
Comment: Though its not Jet Li's best movie, it is still fun to watch and the humor in it is well timed for a movie that is not a comedy. This version is subtitled with not english dubbing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ignored My Order!!!
Comment: I am very disappointed!!!! I was looking forward to watching my movie sold by rivera_my. I thought it was very unprofessional an RUDE TO TAKE MY MONEY AND IGNORE MY EMAILS. TO ANYONE WHO PURCHASES cd'S fROM RIVERA_MY. BE MINDFUL AND CAUTIOUS....KEEP IN MIND NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL THE MONEY IT STILL MONEY...AND RIVERA_MY WILL TAKE IT....ALL IN ALL DON'T SPEND WITH THIS SHADY-SELLER...4 REAL!!!
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Summary: Negative
Comment: The movie itself is entertaining but it wasn't in english, which made it difficult to understand
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Summary: Which to buy? New Legend of Shaolin vs Legend of the Red Dragon
Comment: The customer review currently featured first here urges us to buy the New Legend of Shaolin DVD, but many will actually prefer the Legend of the Red Dragon DVD. (For those not aware, these are different releases of the same movie, and the reviews are mixed together here. The Shaolin release is from Tai Seng, a company with a mixed reputation for importing Hong Kong movies; the Red Dragon release is from Sony/Columbia Tristar. What appears to be essentially the same Tai Seng DVD is also here.)
There are two main differences between the two versions.
1. The Red Dragon version is edited so that it's 12 minutes shorter than the Tai Seng Shaolin version. I don't think that necessarily makes it worse. This isn't Citizen Kane, or Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. After the misleadingly grave beginning, this is mainly a low-budget, wacky martial-arts comedy, with over-the-top fights and characters, humorous throughout. Judging from comparisons at Hong Kong movie websites, the cuts don't change anything of great importance.
And the 95-minute Tai Seng Shaolin release isn't really the fullest version anyway. Amazon also lists a 100-minute version. I'd happily watch a longer version, but I didn't feel any great gaps that interfered with anything all that important in Legend of the Red Dragon, or find myself wishing it was longer.
2. The other main difference is that Red Dragon offers the English dub only, while Shaolin offers Chinese with optional English subtitles only, with no option for an English dub.
As it happens, the English dubbing on the Red Dragon version is hilarious; it's hard to imagine that the original Chinese is any funnier, especially to those who don't speak Cantonese, or that the subtitles bring out some subtle humor missed in the dub.
So, if you're taking this movie the way it appears to be intended, that is, not so seriously, and you don't speak Chinese, you might prefer the Red Dragon version with the English dubbing. It's currently very cheap used.
If you're not familiar with Jet Li, he's a great martial artist with a long career in Hong Kong and some American movies, capped by the recent Fearless (which is the kind of film that's better in its longer version). If you like Jackie Chan's cheaper outings, or want to see some impressively choreographed martial arts action in a mainly comedic setting, try out whichever version of this movie and you'll have a good time.
Both versions are in non-anamorphic widescreen. The image quality is good.
("Red Dragon" is a key place name in the move, by the way, so perhaps not entirely gratuitously chosen for the title. Not that it really matters. A final note: don't confuse this with the movie called simply Red Dragon--that's a completely different animal, and not half as much fun, in my view.)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fun film, poor release.
Comment: This is a fun film and one of the few from the period where Jet just seems to have some fun and go off. But this is a pretty sorry release for it. So Tai Seng is releasing widescreen laser disc masters again? Niiicccee. Wait for a better release. At least that one might not have a Ric Meyers commentary on there. If there's a sure sign of a lack of care from a company releasing kung fu films, it's Meyers' name anywhere on the product.
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