A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons. He is accused of raping the Head of that school's goddaughter and killing his son. Now Ko, the Head of Five Dragons, wants revenge.
The Magnificent Butcher has generally received very positive reviews.
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The Magnificent Butcher was released in 1979 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 41 reviews, giving The Magnificent Butcher (1979) an average rating of 75%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 86%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 70%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Magnificent Butcher than critics were.
With a score of 75%, The Magnificent Butcher is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1979, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 1979 with similar scores include films like Hair, Nosferatu the Vampyre and Quadrophenia.
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