What a waste of my time!!!

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

"The Crippled Masters" manages to establish it's tone quite early: within the first ten minutes, you already know this thing isn't going to make a lick of sense. If you were to get your arms cut off would you a)bleed heavily and shriek like a little girl or b)just sorta walk it off and go to a teahouse? If you went for a), you have no business being in this movie's universe. This movie relies heavily on the one gimmick it has going for it, but thankfully it's good enough to last...until around halfway or so. The problem I sorta have here is that they came up with a plot so genius that they didn't bother to do any more writing. The structure is your typical first act injustice-second act training-third act vengeance drill, done without any real wit, creativity or even decent-looking martial arts. These choreographies are really poor, it never looks the least bit convincing that these masters are hurting the villains at all. To make matters worse you hear punch sound effects on the worst possible times. Who dubs in a sound effect during a choke hold, let alone that particular sound effect? Did the sound guys even watch the movie while they did all this? It's just kind of a lazy production, that's all I'm saying. But the gimmick well, it still provides a lot of fun. You just wish they had saved this idea for a production that knew what to do with it. Oh well, I enjoyed it anyway.

Anyone can be a martial artist whether they are normal or handicapped. For two men, they overcame betrayal. One man lost his arms to the other fighter, and the one who maimed him is double-crossed by his own master, gets his legs burned off. So both men are have to cooperate against him and his crew. The armless fighter packs some powerful kicks and his stubby end helps him hold the staff without major difficulty. The legless fighter works on his arm strength, and can land his weight with devastating results. The mission for these men is Revenge! Betrayed by their master, these men will not stop until he is dealt with! Now training in the martial arts is grueling, and it happens to strengthen the individual. For people who are crippled, they have to experience the same with a few differences there. This movie is very fascinating, very intriguing, and very intensifying. I enjoyed it very well. 3 out of 5 stars!

The exact second I heard the title to this movie during the trailer I knew it would be a must see. An hour of calling various Blockbuster and Hollywood Video stores began, being shot down at every turn by either one of the following responses: "Never heard of it", "Is this a Prank Call" and the great Hang Up response. This reaction began a long search for this movie, where I had to special order it. When it finally came in there was a sense of triumph which probably added to my high accolades for this movie. If you watch this movie straight through, it may be a waste of your time, but if you do as I did, watch the first few minutes, get the general idea of the plot, then fast forward to the crippled fights, then your in good shape!The movie might be horrible, the voice overs might be poor, the film quality might be pure Sh*t. But you cannot deny the fact that it's still a guy with unusable legs, and a guy with a thumb for an arm, kicking some butt! The training scenes are great, the fight scenes are great, and the final showdown is a classic; where our "horizontally challenged" hero cannot get a leg up (pun intended) on the villain, and must resort to the "death blossom" tactic......If you don't know what i'm referring to you haven't seen the movie, just watch for him spin across the ground and listen to the soundtrack!It's great stuff, and the skills that these guys have are just plain fun to watch. Sit down, get a bowl of popcorn and plenty of your beverage of choice.A perfect 10 out of 10 on this one.

This movie contains very impressive martial artistry by guy with no arms and guy with no legs. However, that is beside the point, as anyone that would possibly want to watch this movie would do so for purely camp value. Oh yes, Crippled Masters has camp value. By the end, the film quality gets much worse, and there are obvious film edits mid-shot, and it ends with a big freeze frame. It's very funny how terrible this movie is, as long as you aren't too sensitive about handicaps.