How sad is this?

Best movie of this year hands down!

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.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I stumbled across this movie while channel surfing so I missed the first 30 minutes, but it had me hooked. Fantastic fight scenes with outstanding choreography! Some small amounts of wire work, but plenty of action showcasing the physical abilities of the actors, The final fight scene is one of the best I've seen in many years and had me transfixed from start to finish. i would happily watch this again multiple times.

Just when I thought Kungfu movies could no longer be good, Donnie Yen surprises me again. In Kungfu Jungle, Yen plays a troubled convicted Kungfu master out to stop a crazed Kung fu killer. The story proceeds like a thriller, and the villain played by Wang Baoqiang is convincingly menacing. Teddy Chen portrays the characters as two similar people who chose different paths. The movie slowly unveils more about the antagonist and what drives him. It helps that Wang Baoqiang is able to be truly menacing and prove his immense skill because he has more fight scenes than Yen. In the final showdown between him and Yen, I was not disappointed. Though there were bad CGI and obvious wirefu going on, it helped enhance the fight scene and did not feel odd. Yen is still able to show he can kick serious butt, and uses his trademark lightning fists, and hard punches. Wang Baoqiang also shows that he could go toe to toe with Yen, just like Wu Jing and Sammo Hung in Kill Zone. Louis Fan also has a chance to show his awesome skills this time, unlike in Ip Man, where he only played a comical role. The fighting style in the movie is Kungfu at one of its hardest and most brutal forms. The techniques are less dance-like and lethal, unlike the old Kungfu movies. Even Bourne and Batman would know better not to mess with Yen's character whether it's hand to hand, or weapon to weapon.

The Grandmaster of all martial arts movies, Liu Chia-Liang, died before this movie was made yet makes a cameo during a quick cut to a movie playing on a television set. Liu Chia-Liang added brief moments to his films that would seem unimportant or even out of place to the casual viewer. However, if you practice martial arts for more than a few decades and know the history and watch hundreds of other martial arts movies then you get the point. For example, a man does not say "Thank you" after his wine cup is filled but instead taps his fingers three times on the table. Some of us know exactly what that is all about but most watching the movie do not. The Grandmaster put moments like this into his movies for the real martial arts practitioners and the real fans of these films. Donnie Yen does the same thing in this movie. He shows he knows where he came from, where he is, and where he is going. Thank you, Donnie, I get it! Perfect 10/10 rating.

Donnie Yen is one of the best Chinese action stars working today. He's not as famous in the West as Jackie Chan or Jet Li, but he is in the same ballpark with those gentlemen. He's not a great actor, but his work is solid, and he's an excellent fight choreographer. His films offer consistent quality viewing for action fans."Kung Fu Killer", as it's called in its American release, is one of his better efforts. It's got a decent police procedural plot, borrowing an idea or two from the Kurosawa classic "Stray Dog," but it has very good action scenes. The final fight against the serial killer baddie is a real tour-de-force.The film is clearly intended as an homage to the Hong Kong action film industry. Just about every single surviving performer from the '60's and '70's classics has a cameo here, including Golden Harvest founder Raymond Chow. Be sure to stick around for the closing credits.Recommended for lovers of action cinema.