brilliant actors, brilliant editing

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The movie starts with a long introduction of real martial artists doing their moves. The story starts with a challenge to determine the next head abbot. The loser leaves Shaolin Temple and starts a new style called "karate". Of course there is no historical accuracy. Cut to a stage where the karate master challenges all kung fu practitioners. He defeats them all and his students go off to tear down all the kung fu school sign boards. The school leaders pool their money to hire a master to defeat the karate teacher.Martial arts movies from the 1970s are known for having little or no story or plot. Ironically the best of these movies have minimal plots when the story is just about the martial arts. This movie is just about the martial arts and nothing else. It had the potential for greatness at one point but it didn't happen. Seven guys are trying to defeat the stereotypical evil Japanese karateka. Han Ying- Chieh, the original big boss from the Bruce Lee movie of the same title, tells them with his death breath that they need to combine their strengths to overcome him. If the movie had just shown instead of told, if instead of the expository dialog the fights were choreographed to show exactly that then this movie could have been a great one. Overall I still rate it above average for the year and genre. The final fight is done on treacherous ground and has plenty of falls.

This is a really entertaining Kung Fu movie. It has 7 masters each of a different style and it is about their trip to fight a single master of many different Kung Fu styles. There are a lot of jokes in the movie and it never takes it's self too serious which was a good way to do the film. Although the plot may not have too many unexpected twists (or be very unique from other "dream team" type Kung Fu Movies) it is entertaining through out. There are so many amazing fight scenes that are done very well that it is good for the Kung Fu movie fan that may have a little ADD. With all that being said I enjoyed the movie but for a non-kung fu fan they will find it horrible. I give it a 7/10 and I bought it on DVD.

This movie is so cool because you have seven kung fu masters, each with a unique fighting style, duking it out with a Japanese karate master. The coolest part is that each style--Hun Gar, Wing Chun, Monkey Fist, Choy Lee Fut, and others--gets its own part of the spotlight and a neat description to accompany it. The opening credits provide an impressive display of masters and these styles that I still love to this day.Ok, it's not the best movie, but it's fun...and fun to laugh at.