The Kid With the Golden Arm

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delysid d not much of a plot to this film, something about moving gold from place to place. however it has great kung fu Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/13/18 Full Review Audience Member "You must have heard of the Iron Feet." "The Iron Feet!" Director Chang Cheh and the Venom Mob make yet another amazing martial arts film! Our hero is hired to protect and deliver a shipment of gold to a famine stricken village. As you might guess, plenty of bad guys want the gold and many amazing fight scenes ensue. The story isn't all that clever or original, but the fight scenes are amazing, as you might expect from the Venoms. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Kuo Chui is the balls in this. Some of the action is unbelievable and the finale is jaw-droppingly good. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review don s Basically an average kung fu movie, thankfully not dubbed this time. The title describes the villain, however he has a smaller part in the movie than many other characters. Decently choreographed fight scenes are woven into a story light on plot but heavy on conflicts. Not bad. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Martial Arts film made in 1979 which features 4 of the actors from "Five Deadly Venoms" as well as 2 others from the same film. Story line is not to far off from Venoms but changed enough to be its own piece of work. Very entertaining and action packed with good choreography. 8/10 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member One of the few movies to feature all six of the Venoms, Kid gets started with an action scene and doesn't stop until the end. Even the opening credits feature some action, as the four bosses of the evil Chi Sah gang show off their styles. The story concerns Sun Chien's escort service, which must transport a large shipment of gold. With them comes virtuous swordsman Li Chin-Ming (Wei Pai) and his woman, the equally-skilled Ms. Ling (Chi Pan-Ping). The service also employs the services of Short Axe (Chiang Sheng) and Long Axe (Sun Shao-Pei, the annoying prick who killed Lo Meng in Five Venoms), two fighters who compete to see who can kill the most villains. Continuously bumping into them is the drunken government agent Hai To (Kuo Choi). Chang and the Venoms inject some dark comedy into the film. Other than Kuo Choi's hijinks, the two Axes have a running gag on the number of villains killed. Kuo Choi also gets some laughs by continuously rejecting Silver Spear's offers to join the Chi Sah gang. I've also always loved the last moments with Golden Arms. At the end of the film, he makes a few serious, life-changing decisions; something rare for main villains, who usually stay bad until they meet their doom. But after he announces his plans, well, you'll just have to see for yourself. Let's just say what happens to him is shocking with each viewing. The violence level is pleasantly high. Blood erupts from sword gashes, people get hacked apart, and those beaten by fists bleed profusely from the mouth. At one point, an assailant who hides behind a panel is stabbed, and blood shoots across the screen. One of the main chiefs suffers a grisly fate, landing on an upturned spear. This is certainly one of the more violent Venoms movies. The sets however are minimal, mostly fake-looking reconstructions of forests and hills. It might appear fake, but it's the same look that gives these movies their otherworldly allure. The soundtrack deserves special mention, ranging from eerie synthesizer to acid-fried guitar to totally-inappropriate medieval-sounding tunes. Choreography is the usual Venoms great, though here most of them fight separately, and rely more on weapons than they do in some of their other movies. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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