Good concept, poorly executed.

Brilliant and touching

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A clunky kung fu effort, filmed on the cheap in Taiwan. This has no recognisable faces or major talent behind the cameras, and the lack of expertise is apparent in the routinely-staged fights and general lack of coherence. It's the sort of film you watch and feel that nobody was really trying very hard.The story begins as a bunch of gold miners fall out and end up randomly fighting. Eventually the main guy makes his fortune and goes off to marry his sweetheart only to discover that she's been accidentally killed by the chief villain. The chief villain, meanwhile, gets his hands on the loot and becomes all-powerful with his own private army, equipped with guns no less. The hero and his allies must figure out how to combat them.Everything here plays out exactly as you'd expect. There are no major plot twists, no good fight scenes, just predictability and drawn-out plotting. Just the sort of cheap kung fu film I hate, really.