| Feb. 15th, 2006 @ 09:50 am The Sleeping Fist |
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Current Mood:  amused
I followed up Sabrina with The Sleeping Fist. I'm nothing if not logical. This was one of the many rip-offs of Drunken Master after that film's success. What we get in this one is a wandering, drunken beggar (sound familiar) who is somewhat abusive to his students and who teaches an unlikely form of kung-fu based on sleeping.
Yes folks, it's a film which could have, but unfortunately didn't, feature Sleepy Bear style of kung fu. It did feature Sleeping Monkey, Sleeping Man, Sleeping Buddha, and Sleeping Fairy styles, however, and a whole lot of "power" yawns. I'm not kidding.
The film is, actually, fairly amusing, although the obnoxious komic relief/kute little tramp orphan charater gets to be a bit much by the end of the running time. Essentially the hero is some sort of undercover cop who's about to bust open a case against a crime lord. He hooks up with the aforementioned orphan, sets to wandering (for some reason that's never said he's unable to merely bring his evidence against the main villain, so he instead wanders the country trying to heal his wound and avoid the crime lord), saves a girl from some ruffians (which of course brings more trouble upon him) and meets up with the aformentioned drunken beggar teacher and learns the style he needs to beat the unbeatable foe.
It's a pretty standard old-school kung fu movie, but for whatever reason I found it quite enjoyable. The leads do some pretty good 'fu, the comedy isn't half bad, and the whole thing is hig enough energy that you can forgive it's faults-the shop worn storyline, half-baked romance subplot, perfunctory villain, and the some what irritating orphan character. On the other hand, the film ends with said orphan *pissing on* the hero to wake him up after the climatic bout, so it isn't all bad. |
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