Review of Dreadnaught (1981) by Steve W — 09 Jul 2010
Thought I seen it all when in comes to fight scenes and choreography in old school martial art movies after seeing many including knockabout, drunken master etc, but that's only until recently. After watching Dreadnaught, I realised how wrong I was! You never know when you'll find another impressive old school martial arts movie!
Impressed with how amazing traditional style choreography can be, (Yuen Wo Pings and Yuen Biao's old stuff never fails to impress!), especially with the Lion Dance and Kwan Tak Hing curing his patients with medicinal fire.
Average story,.
Amazing traditional martial arts, acrobatics from Peking Opera and some great old school martial art stunts (the lion dance on the bridge of stools). All expected from an old kung fu filick!
Note: Chris O'Donnel in Batman Forevers tries to shamelessly copy off Yuen Biao's atheletism, artisitry and flexiblity. Only to fail, as Yuen Biao has an amazing size where he is drying and wringing laundry using his toes, ankles and feets, and showing of amazing choreogrpahy flexiblity mixed artistically into a fiction martial arts forms.
Chris O'doneel as a simialr scene in Batman Forever and it is just crap! LOL!
This review of Dreadnaught (1981) was written by Steve W on 09 Jul 2010.
Dreadnaught has generally received very positive reviews.
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