everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

This is definitely not for people who are Trump supporters. Any character who rejects gold and seeks no control or power over others is just the spiritual sort who puts the Kibosh on everything Trump.More over the spiritual values demonstrated in this series show the emptiness of the Evangelicals, and the NRA. All the previous reviews are all agreed and I need to add nothing. The only lasting question for me is how is it possible that Bruce Lee would improve this. Lee would need to be a far better actor than I think of him to pull this off and offer the same quality experience. Having the Kung Fu sections be "more precise" would simply not add anything, since only an expert like Lee would even notice.

I watched this show as a kid in reruns and loved it. Got the chance to reconnect with it when it came out on DVD. I was so thrilled with it I started a blog about it, here: kwaichangcaine.blogspot.com Understand, it still seems a little dated and doesn't compare in terms of action by today's standards or even by the standards of the best kung fu movies of the genre. But it was just a great show, an inseparable part of the 1970s kung fu zeitgeist. Highly recommended on that basis. If you were there, this is for you. If you weren't there but enjoy that period, this is for you. If you're just new to this, I hope you can find something about it that you like anyway. The show is, as has been said, about a Shaolin monk wondering the Old West. It's about a man who is very complete and who wanders in and out of the episodes that characterized this violent and adventurous setting - so much so that he is, at times, a supporting character in someone else's story. But he's a peaceful warrior, always emerging from each drama basically unstained, virtuous, victorious in body and spirit.

David Caradine plays Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin priest wandering the 19th century American west in search of his half-brother while being sought by the Chinese government on a charge of murder back in China. He mostly does his wandering barefooted, but carries his shoes just in case he has to enter a saloon with a "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" policy. Generally Caine is a magnet for trouble, and although he'd rather resolve the conflicts through peaceful means, he inevitability relies on his highly developed martial arts skills. When I was a kid enjoyed watching hippie Carradine beat the crap out of red necks. As an adult I favor the Shaolin temple flashbacks and the words of wisdom offered up by the priests. The music, the cinematography (love the lens flare), direction, acting and overall production all contribute to making "Kung Fu" an excellent television classic.

This will always be one of the more original series to come out of the 1970's. Imagine a Western where the main character is half Chinese and half Caucasian and doesn't use a gun. Now think of how this series wound up as one of the great cult classics of its era. Even though this series originally was the idea of Bruce Lee and would have featured him as the star, David Carradine still pulls off the job and comes off as very believable as Caine. You also can see that he tries not to play to stereotype, but he does make this show very mystical, which can be seen as a positive and as a negative. Also wonderful were Keye Luke as master Po, Phllip Ahn as master Kahn and, of course, Radames Pera as the young Caine. This show will always be a cult classic of its era.