Master of the Flying Guillotine Master of the Flying Guillotine
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A one-armed martial arts master is being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters (the Tibetan Lamas) who were killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed Boxer is invited to attend a martial arts tournament, his efforts to lay low are unsuccessful, and the assassin soon tracks him down with the help of his three subordinates competing in the tournament: a Thai boxer, a yoga master, and a kobojutsu user.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Once the plot points have been laboriously laid out, this film transforms into an awesome series of bizarre characters, inventive fights and hilarious weapons. An excellent sludge metal score too. Sweet kung fu pleasure.
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What an impossibly silly contraption.
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Once the plot points have been laboriously laid out, this film transforms into an awesome series of bizarre characters, inventive fights and hilarious weapons. An excellent sludge metal score too. Sweet kung fu pleasure.
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There's no disputing the influence of this film, although I personally felt that it wasn't a patch on the first movie.
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Awesome, fun, addictive. This could be the greatest martial arts movie known to man.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Master of the Flying Guillotine is definitely a classic Chinese Kungfu gem, a sequel of One-Armed Boxer (Wang Yu). Even though this is categorized as a B movie with crappy special effects on the flying guillotine, Master of the Flying Guillotine displayed creative fight choreography. It tells the story of Fung Sheng Wu Chi, a blind warrior who tried to avenge the death of his students Chow Fu and Chow Lung who were killed by One-Armed Boxer (Wang Yu).
The flying guillotine is an amazing weapon. Folded up, it is about the size of a soda can. When ready, it looks like a bowl with blades on the inside and outside of the opening. The weapon is hurled as one…
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The most entertaining kung fu film of the 1970s? This one has it all—extensive fight match-ups, a variety of styles, blood and gore and even touches of the supernatural. It’s almost like a slasher film, as the titular master goes after an innocent one-armed boxer. It all ends with a fantastic showdown in a funeral parlour that seems to be inspired from spaghetti westerns. Fun stuff!
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Tirelessly entertaining kung fu cheesefest.
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What an impossibly silly contraption.
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Two nights in a row. I'm hardcore!