Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Let's be realistic.

Best movie ever!

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

If you have never seen any black magic movie or want to see just one for the rest of your live then do me a favor watch The Boxer's Omen it will change your mind immediately.The location is beautiful and the set up for each fight between the force of good and evil is jaws-dropping awesome.With the amount of WTF-ness in The Boxer's Omen i think you need to shut your brain off completely to embracing all the goodness the movie can offer.It suck that the main guy is kind of ass when he disrespect people who save his life but a pre-Bloodsport Bolo Yeung is always good for my heart

Out of the handful of Hong Kong horrors I've watched, THE BOXER'S OMEN stands head and shoulders above the rest as the finest of its kind. Made with the packing of the Shaw Brothers studio, whose funds give this an expansive, colourful look that some of the low budget monstrosities lack, THE BOXER'S OMEN is a wild ride packed with special effects, violence, nudity and a simply insane plot covering the battle between good and evil. Forget the likes of ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPOOKY KIND: in its depiction of battling monks and evil wizards, this is a film that goes one step further (and usually beyond the boundaries of good taste).Things kick off – literally – with a kickboxing match not too dissimilar from the likes of KICKBOXER. The big, brutish bad guy is fan favourite Bolo Yeung, here perfecting his evil sneer with relish. The hero of the piece is Phillip Ko, another Hong Kong mainstay usually known for playing bad guys in various kung fu outings; it's refreshing to see him cast as the good guy for once. Although he initially goes to Thailand to seek vengeance, he soon becomes involved in another story entirely that turns out to loosely follow on from the one in BEWITCHED (the airport finale of that film is reprised here).Before you know it, Ko is regurgitating live eels, shaving his head and following the Buddhist preachings as he joins forces with a dead and decaying abbot who forever gives him spiritual guidance. He's going to need it, as he's up against some particularly nasty foes: evil wizards who vomit up their foodstuffs and cast all manner of spells that usually involve bringing to life some unpleasant creatures. These range from spiders and weird snail-like alien creatures to a human mummy, who's put inside a crocodile corpse and covered in all kinds of crap before finding reincarnation as an evil queen of black magic who possesses all kind of deadly powers. There's real-life animal slaughter, tons of offal flowing around the screen, frequent nudity, rotting bodies, worms and maggots and laser beam special effects that would have been the best of its day. In fact many of the gruesome effects are still impressive today thanks to the sheer hard work that's gone into their creation.There are bizarre highlights here, from the flying severed wizard head attacking our hero (clearly influenced by the likes of Indonesian horror fare such as MYSTICS IN BALI) to the extended, good-vs-evil battle of the climax. It's not a film for the squeamish, certainly, as most of the stuff going on here is designed to make you bring up your lunch, but if you can handle the pace then you're in for a treat: this is one of the most creative, no-holds-barred black magic horror films ever made!

There are four different films crammed into one uneven hodgepodge, here. The best of these is a beautifully shot meditation of Buddhism. Secondmost (if you ask me) would be the sometimes delightfully hilarious send-up of supernatural fright films (the scene where the skeleton of a resurrected bat tries to make a run for it but gets zapped by the hero is worth the price of admission: said bat makes for the exit, glancing nervously back over his shoulder as he goes... but, alas, the poor devil doesn't make it). Thirdly, we have a Muy Thai kick-boxer's tale of vengeance featuring "Bolo Yeung" (Yang Sze, who played the muscle-bound "Bolo" in ENTER THE DRAGON), the villain you love to hate. The last is the least of the four: a gut-wrenching, innards-munching movie that's guaranteed to up your chuck (unless you're made of sterner stuff than I). The first and second movies would've made for interesting viewing; the latter two I could've lived without.

Ko plays Xiong,out to avenge his brother,crippled in a kick-boxing fight by Bolo Yeung.His hallucinations lead him to a temple and his karmic twin priest;their fates are inextricably linked, and that's bad,since the priest was killed by a black magician.Xiong initially sceptical is eventually convinced-the graphic scene of eel-vomiting seems to do the trick - and agrees to become a monk in order to take on the forces of darkness and save both the priest's soul and his own.This surreal and completely over-the-top HK trashy horror flick has to be seen to be believed.The special effects are weak,however you will laugh until it hurts watching several totally weird moments.The action is fast and the film is loaded with hallucinatory imagery straight from Jodorovsky's works.9 out of 10 for sheer pleasure of watching this surreal madness.