Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

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Audience Member Strong sequel with another masterful martial-arts storyline. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member I wasn't quite as taken with this sequel to the original film, even though it features the same writer/director and the same star. It's still an entertaining martial arts film for sure, but the story seemed a bit forced (the titular swordsman is living a quite life as a farmer, but is forced to come out of retirement) and the action, particularly the wirework, seemed comparatively weak, particularly once scene in a bamboo forest. I think this film is ditinguesed from the original too in terms of violence, which sin't necessarily a bad thing and actually did hold my interest a bit more. This sequel also had a bigger scale and more larger battle scenes, but like I said earlier, the film also seemed a bit more hokey, which did hurt the film. Still, it's a solid martial arts action flick and an extended and quite good finale make it well worth watching. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Chang Cheh doing what he does best; painting the town red (with blood) and featuring a band of killers, each with his/her own specialty. Tones down the whole bare-chested men thing a li'l bit. It's still the sixties. In addition to a young Wu Ma, Ti Lung and Liu Chia Liang (Lau Kar Leung), a couple of blink and you'll miss 'em appearances from David (John) Chiang and (I *think*) Yuen Wo Ping as the "Flying Sword King". The folks who did the commentary track on the first movie were looking for him there (IIRC), and might've gotten their info mixed up. If I ever act in a movie, I'd like to die like a character in a Chang Cheh film. That looks like fun. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member The master of a little known, & therefore nearly indefensible method, sword technique returns as a reluctant hero. This time with the support of a wife and the trust of several other martial arts masters. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member 82% Interesting weapons, nice line up of villians and bloody battles. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Fang Gang returns as the eponymous one-armed swordsman n this messy and chaotic sequel. He comes out of retirement to save students from cutting off their own arms in order to appease a vicious gang of eight weapon wielding villains who have kidnapped some clan elders. Fang Gang feels like a side character in his own movie, with tons of good guy characters getting killed, but we don't know their names due to poor character development. The villains at least are memorable by their fighting styles and weapons, and Fang Gang only has one or two solid scenes. Overall its not a strong sequel by any means, because there's too much going on. There are too many allies and villains, and not enough One-Armed Swordsman action. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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