This is definitely Jet Li's BEST fight scene he's EVER done in my opinion!!! It literally has everything in it that makes a fight scene great...the constant back and forth between who's winning and losing really amps up the suspense factor, the wide variety of techniques, incorporation of the environment, utilization of weapons, both combatants showing fatigue and pain at certain points...I mean...its just perfect...you don't often get all of that in fight scenes these days...
The way Jet Li swings that belt is actually some classic moves for a traditional Chinese soft weapon called 'nine-sectioned chain 九节鞭'. Almost all professionally trained Chinese martial artists have learned some of it. Donnie Yenn, Jacky Wu, Jackie Chan ... I bet they all know how to use it.
A lot of people tend go forget Jet was an actual trained champion in Wushu before he ever stepped foot on stage. Thing is he is one off the last "traditional" wushu masters because he was part of the last generation that still required one to learn all aspects of Wushu.
@@snikerz5886 Yep. Jet Li, Donnie Yen and Jacky Wu were all professionally trained Wushu champions. So they were all athletes before becoming movie stars. Not Jackie Chan though - Jackie Chan learned more performance-oriented martial arts when he was young. Fun fact: both Jet and Donnie had similar experiences during the same period, but Jet was in the north, while Donnie in the south (Guangdong and Hong Kong area). And HK is much more westernized, so Donnie Yen had much more exposure to international martial arts later in his career. I think he also spent time in the US, but not entirely sure.
That’s such a good fight scene! This is one of the first martial arts films I ever saw, and the fighting holds up so well. I was surprised how good it was! Thanks for reviewing!
@@SpriGgEx No in a makeoff you could see he very well trained and i did see things you can't see in other movies. But i need the opinion from a expert.
@@gi0vanni220 i cant say that i have looked much into it and its been a few years that i have seen the movie. But Actors training for several weeks and even months for a role is nothing new. But that still wont get you anywere close to an Martial Arts Actor who trained for almost his whole life. And you will always be able to see that. But on another note. The Guy that plays the Iron Fist in the Netflix show with the same name, had supposedly a bit martial arts background. And because of that, his ego decided he doesnt need to prepare for the Role. And you can totally see how lame the fight scenes are because of such stupid decisions. Also he cannot act for shit xD
Yeah a lot of the English dubs of Jet’s 90s movies are done really well. And the guy in the purple is one the most underrated Hong Kong actors and stuntmen back in the day. His name is Chin Siu- Ho. Billy Chow was a world kickboxing champion also.
Chin Siu Ho is amazing. Can do anything ask from him. Billy Show was a kickboxing champ in his own right and was able to take those skills and be an amazing on screen fighter.
0:43 for a bit of context, for some reason, the sign in the English dub says "Jing Wu (name of the Chinese Martial Arts Dojo) is closed", but the actual thing written in Chinese translates to "Sick Men of East Asia", which was a phrase that the Japanese used against the Chinese when they fought against each other in war.
Nice always wanted to know what the signs say. What does the sign say behind jet li after he kicks his friend with a flying kick in their sparring session?
One of my favorite Jet Li fight scenes of all time. Very few people know this but Billy Chow was a world champion kickboxer outside of acting. Also, the radial nerve and a major artery run under your armpits so getting hit there is NOT good for your health and causes excruciating pain.
I always thought three of Jet Li's best fight scenes were all in this movie. The fight with Li against the Karate school, the battle against his girlfriend's father, and the final battle against Billy Chow. The only other film with as many quality fight scenes was in his movie, Kiss Of the Dragon.
Every fight scene in this movie is epic! The first dojo fight and the fight against Ting-An where he starts boxing and throwing in some Jeet Kune Do are both phenomenal.
One of my favorite fight scenes great that you finally reacted to it. Billy Chow is just so “big” in this scene the way he just shrugs everything off in the beginning. It definitely holds up well, too. I just rewatched the final fight from Bloodsport the other day, which was epic when I was younger, and I was almost ROFL it was so bad…
Same with the Mortal Kombat Movie. The only Epic Things left are the Soundtracks and The Overacting of Chang Tsung ^^ Most of the Fights are actually kinda Lame and dont hold up well. Thats what you get for having most Actors without any Martial Arts Talent or Background doing a Movie about a Fighting game oO Still not nearly as bad as Iron Fist Netflix Show where not a single fight scene looks natural or cool in any way xD
Grandad from "The Boondocks" taught me just how effective a belt is as a weapon lol. Love this fight scene. Billy Chow is so intimidating. He was always the best villain type.
Billy Chow Bei-lei is a Hong Kong-Canadian martial artist, film actor, and retired professional kickboxer. He was the WKA world Welterweight champion from 1984 to 1986, and retired with a professional record of 45-0-8. Wikipedia Born: August 24, 1958 (age 63 years), Calgary, Canada Height: 6′ 0″ Style: Kickboxing
I love how much they are trading blows. In many fight movies their are always phases in fights were one dominated the other and then it switches back and forth but here they just trading all the time even when you think the other has now the upper hand (bleeding eye etc.). I just love this movie it has so many great fighting scenes. I also really love the fight versus the old master.
The previous fight to this with Jet Li vs Yasuaki Kurata I think is a far better fight. Physically and metaphysically. While they are fighting they are discussing Old vs Young. Adaptable techniques etc. Please review that one.
Got to be my all time favorite fight scene. So cinematic, impacts all feel so solid, everything done in camera, the wire work is even somewhat grounded. Billy Chow in this movie is a terror of a character. A pretty fantastic martial arts film, but this fight sends it over the moon for me.
As someone who has fought away two attackers by themselves with just a belt and a crazy look to my eye, I can confirm: no one, not even crackheads looking to pawn your new shoes, wants to be whipped by a belt buckle across the face. I think I knocked out the only two teeth the one had left. Still have em in a bottle on my bedside drawer lol.
Earlier in the movie, you can see general Fujita practising Sanchin Kata. That explains why he is such a tank. Throughout the fight, you can also see he is bracing for most of the attacks. That is why most of Jet li's attack has little impact on him.
While in college, about 2002, I was at a friend's house who had all these martial arts VHS tapes we liked to get high to. So one day Fist of Legend comes along and I was already in love with the blindfolded fight against the old man (watch it, different vibe), but the final boss is a monster. I think it's the uniform and the perfect straightness and power of those roundhouses, but I can't help but see M. Bison all of the time. Anyway, the katana scene comes up and I'm already hyped out of my mind and I say to my friend "wooow do you imagine of he went full Kenshin vs Saito and fought back with his fucking belt?" (Rurouni Kenshin fight, i also recommend it, it's amazing even with that minispoiler). After saying that, I didn't see my friend's face, but he must have sneered or something because 2 seconds later it happens and I just lost it and it was one of those mindblowing movie moments you remember forever. True Story.
Oh, this was my very favorite Jet Li movie when I was a teen and me and my best friend went on a wild Jet Li kick, watching every film of his we could get ahold of. My friend liked the wire-fu movies that were all spectacle, but I loved this one and the grittier tone with minimal wire work. Thanks for reacting to it, this was a blast from the past for me.
I was so distracted looking behind max thinking, blood of elves, ive heard that before, the last wish? hmmm, wait a minute max has the entire collection of the witcher books wth lol awesome, just now noticed
Yes!, I've been waiting for this. This movie has some of the best fight scenes I've ever seen. I would highly recommend watching all (or most) of them.
Cool fight scene, yeah, but you wanna know what would make it realistic? Them both warming up. Imagine doing such sick moves without a warm-up. Next day you'd be like a one giant feeling of pain, sprained joints and pulled muscles. Therefore I believe they should do some jumping jacks, burpees, sprawls beforehand. I know it would look ridiculous, but it would be at least realistic.
This whole fight scene is unrealistic. Billy Chow breaks trees and stone with his leg ffs lmao. But we don’t care, we wanna see 2 incredibly skilled men fight eachother with some awesome moves.
The "three stooges slap" was a backhand eye rake, essentially getting slapped or scratched in the eyeball, blinding/impairing the Colonel....the Captain....the bad guy's eye closest to his opponent, thus causing his depth perception to be hindered with the follow up kick causing the eyebrow cut futher debilitating him. This is why I love old martial arts films like Fist of Legend, Fist of Fury, any old Wuxia style films and especially The Shaw Bros productions. The fight choreography tells a mini story and isn't just flashy to be over the top flashy. Plus the wire work in older films without the use of CGI holds up most of the time with some exceptions of course. The older the films, the newer to the techniques they were and thus the more they age badly, kinda like certain practical effects, like say some of the Jim Henson muppet stuff in movies Labyrinth or Dark Crystal, or in horror movies like Friday the 13th when the arrow goes through Kevin Bacon's throat from under the bed after the sex scene. The neck is clearly a rubber dummy with off color skin and sprayed on sweat but the blood squirting effects more than make up for it, THANKS to Tom Savini amongst others! Or in Nightmare on Elm Street 2 when Freddy is "birthed" out of Jesse's skin and basically "steps out" of his torso. The practical effect was good for the time with the blood and lighting but upon rewatching it does look like a rubber mold dummy of the actor.
I had this on VHS as a kid, I posted in a previous title for you to do any fight from this. I watched this like every day as I didn’t have many movies, it’s soooo good. Glad you reacted!!
I have the DVD with behind the scenes interviews with the director and he said that Billy Chow actually thanked him after filming was done because most of his acting jobs before this were non-speaking roles. I don't know much of his filmography, but I do know he played a silent heavy in Iron Monkey 2 opposite Donny Yen.
Just for some clarity, that whole line that was said at 4:13 doesn’t exist in the Chinese version of the film. There is no dialogue in this entire fight, just pure action! I suggest watching this film, it’s good, with some great grounded fight scenes. Jet Li’s character Chen Zhen basically is using a mixture of Japanese karate and mixing it with Chinese Gong Fu, creating a style of his own that leads to him beating Billy Chow’s “Fujita” character in this ending scene. This is a martial arts classic, easily top 10 all time
This is one of the greatest fight scenes ever … I have lost count of how many times I’ve watched the belt bit on slomo since I first watched it on vhs back when it came out 👍
I have this movie and I can tell you that even till this day it's one of the best Jet Li fight scenes. I could watch this over and over. Even with the special effects back then it's still great to watch. Awesome commentary also. I subscribed. Btw that Bardock in the background is OP👌🏽
Fist of Legend is so great. This fight is fantastic. (Though all of the fights in this film are tied for best. Dojo fight, fight with grandmaster . . . Epic.)
"I wonder how practical that kick would be" The rainbow kick variants are the most effective when they're the last thing you expect to see. Hugely acrobatic, light on power, and leaves the user very vulnerable, but the notion of simultaneous parallel attacks is uncommon enough that if you can get the tunnel vision it makes for a great punish. The armpit shots are a great way to deal with Strong Fist and Iron Body conditioning since they've got powerful nerve clusters that you can't condition *and* easy access to major arteries.
finally someone that gets it, body conditioning and the chinese technique "ironshirt" channels chi hardening the body, soft areas like the armpit has pressure points and a weak point that can't be hardened easily, hence why he went for the leg joint after, also why jet went to chop his heck, he hardened his neck and caught it with his chin, jet flicks his eyes to disturb his chi and went for a second chop
Getting hit just bellow the armpit and just behind the bicep will make the arm go numb, similar to hitting your funny bone in the elbow. Hurts like hell and makes your arm all but useless for a good bit of time.
The talk about belts reminds me of the bathroom fight from The Punisher season 2. There, he doesn't use it as a weapon, but he wraps it around his forearm to defend against knife slashes.
This movie was my intro to Jet Li. I was already a fan of guys like Van Damme and Chuck Norris, and I was definitely familiar with Bruce Lee, but after seeing this movie, Jet became my favorite fighter.
Ahh! This is one of my top 4 favorite jet li Movies. This is a great fight scene. Billy Chow is a force. Shows all of Jet's talents. A must watch is Romeo Must Die and The Defender-- Wow!!
This movie is actually my favorite Jet Li flick. Awesome fight scenes, This one is great, but i think the scene when he fights his Japanese (girlfriend?) Uncle (the guy saying "if you learn to be fluid") is the best fight scene by far! You need to watch Last Hurrah For Chivalry. Probably the greatest Kung Fu Fight scenes ever done, and it was filmed in 1979!
@@BurridgeMartialArts604 on and off during uni life abroad. But during pandemic i did more chen tai chi though. Getting old haha. But more interest practising weapons. Into kenjutsu lately too.
Trust me, getting hit in the inner part of your biceps is excrutiating, happened to me while exercising with parallel bars years ago early in a park at sunday and there I was, a grown man weeping in the floor and incapacitated for like 15 minutes with nobody around to help me. That was a good learning experience.
Bruv, please review the middle fight from Fist of Legend when Chen Zen fights Master Funakoshi - it's as good as most other final flight scenes and has a brilliant ending! 🙏🏾
I like that in a lot of his movies, if Jet Li's character improvises a weapon, it's usually a belt or towel that he uses like a whip...I'm guessing it's his favorite Wushu weapon.
I've watched aloooooot of kung-fu, karate, martial arts movies or whatever you wanna call them and I can say Jet Li's foot work in this movie was absolute flawless and my favorite next to Bruce Lee's.
My favorite Jet Li movie. This was his remake of Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury". Martial arts fans will note that throughout the movie Jet is constantly eschewing traditional Kung Fu training in favor of cross training and calisthenics in a Lee homage.
This is Jet Li's greatest movie in terms of fight scenes, it's a retelling of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. Every fight scene is long, detailed and you can see the time and effort they gave to craft out a martial arts masterpiece.
I think this is Jet Li's best action movie. He had a few great fights in this movie, in a dojo with his friend, then with his gf's dad(?) in the fields, and finally this one. The fights were well measured, tactical and satisfying
Under the Armpit area there is an Artery, and a Major Nerve.. if hit correctly, one may lose feeling in the hand a short while, feel Pain, or even lose strength, or it may mess up the movement. There is a pressure point under the armpit, so a punch is Very effective.
It's basically a remake of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. The story of Chen Zhen. Jet plays the master Chen Zhen is avenging in the movie Fearless, many years later.
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Genuinely the best advice I may have ever heard: "If a guy relocates his dislocated shoulder mid-fight. Just leave". LOL!
there's video of guy KOing somebody with his dead arm after dislocated his shoulder in a fight
Ive had to rest my arm a couple times during a fights.
@@brianmanheimer9415 nice
I dislocated a guy's shoulder once, his faces showed all colors, I felt fucking awful.
Okay 👋🏻
This is definitely Jet Li's BEST fight scene he's EVER done in my opinion!!! It literally has everything in it that makes a fight scene great...the constant back and forth between who's winning and losing really amps up the suspense factor, the wide variety of techniques, incorporation of the environment, utilization of weapons, both combatants showing fatigue and pain at certain points...I mean...its just perfect...you don't often get all of that in fight scenes these days...
And don't forget Mr Billy Chow, got the Muay Thai Champ while he reach his 50s. A very well respected person along with super nice personality.
This Movie and Fearless i would say are are Jet Lis greatest in Terms of Fight Scenes.
I like the one where he fights his best friend slightly better, but yes this is epic!
That’s sword fight in Fearless too
@@vaughnfortt1067 yah, definitely the best 😎
The way Jet Li swings that belt is actually some classic moves for a traditional Chinese soft weapon called 'nine-sectioned chain 九节鞭'. Almost all professionally trained Chinese martial artists have learned some of it. Donnie Yenn, Jacky Wu, Jackie Chan ... I bet they all know how to use it.
Was just going to write this, thanks!
A lot of people tend go forget Jet was an actual trained champion in Wushu before he ever stepped foot on stage. Thing is he is one off the last "traditional" wushu masters because he was part of the last generation that still required one to learn all aspects of Wushu.
@@snikerz5886 Yep. Jet Li, Donnie Yen and Jacky Wu were all professionally trained Wushu champions. So they were all athletes before becoming movie stars. Not Jackie Chan though - Jackie Chan learned more performance-oriented martial arts when he was young.
Fun fact: both Jet and Donnie had similar experiences during the same period, but Jet was in the north, while Donnie in the south (Guangdong and Hong Kong area). And HK is much more westernized, so Donnie Yen had much more exposure to international martial arts later in his career. I think he also spent time in the US, but not entirely sure.
Actually reminded me more of _rope dart_ technique than the chain...though they are both very similar.
One of the longest and most intense fight scenes of all time
That’s such a good fight scene! This is one of the first martial arts films I ever saw, and the fighting holds up so well. I was surprised how good it was! Thanks for reviewing!
Why do so many people say that? Fight scenes from old movies are way better than modern movies, which is mostly camera work of shaky cam and cut-away.
@@Tien1million The guy from Ninja Assassin is in real life also very good. Movies are fake but that guy is not.
@@gi0vanni220 LOL wasnt he a model?^^
That movie gets kinda ruined by its stupidly overuse of bad CGI blood xD
@@SpriGgEx No in a makeoff you could see he very well trained and i did see things you can't see in other movies. But i need the opinion from a expert.
@@gi0vanni220 i cant say that i have looked much into it and its been a few years that i have seen the movie. But Actors training for several weeks and even months for a role is nothing new. But that still wont get you anywere close to an Martial Arts Actor who trained for almost his whole life. And you will always be able to see that.
But on another note. The Guy that plays the Iron Fist in the Netflix show with the same name, had supposedly a bit martial arts background. And because of that, his ego decided he doesnt need to prepare for the Role. And you can totally see how lame the fight scenes are because of such stupid decisions. Also he cannot act for shit xD
Yeah a lot of the English dubs of Jet’s 90s movies are done really well. And the guy in the purple is one the most underrated Hong Kong actors and stuntmen back in the day. His name is Chin Siu- Ho. Billy Chow was a world kickboxing champion also.
The guy in purple is also really good in another Jet Li favorite 'Tai Chi Master'
Chin Siu Ho is amazing. Can do anything ask from him. Billy Show was a kickboxing champ in his own right and was able to take those skills and be an amazing on screen fighter.
Still my favorite Martial arts movie of all time. The fight choreo is pretty much flawless from start to finish.
0:43 for a bit of context, for some reason, the sign in the English dub says "Jing Wu (name of the Chinese Martial Arts Dojo) is closed", but the actual thing written in Chinese translates to "Sick Men of East Asia", which was a phrase that the Japanese used against the Chinese when they fought against each other in war.
Nice always wanted to know what the signs say. What does the sign say behind jet li after he kicks his friend with a flying kick in their sparring session?
Yeah, the subs claim it says "The weaklings of East Asia", or something along those lines. It's been a long time since I saw this one.
@@ThepurposeofTime I'd have to find the sign first, but I don't remember which duration of the movie this occurred at.
its also in the original "fist of fury" movie ...
@@VTuber_Central Yes it's kind of a "homage" to that film. One could almost say this is a "prequel" of sorts to that movie.
One of my favorite Jet Li fight scenes of all time. Very few people know this but Billy Chow was a world champion kickboxer outside of acting. Also, the radial nerve and a major artery run under your armpits so getting hit there is NOT good for your health and causes excruciating pain.
Yeah, Billy Chow was legit. Judging by his record, a bit of a beast in the ring. One of his bouts: th-cam.com/video/gAdCLJ_pAQI/w-d-xo.html
I always thought three of Jet Li's best fight scenes were all in this movie. The fight with Li against the Karate school, the battle against his girlfriend's father, and the final battle against Billy Chow. The only other film with as many quality fight scenes was in his movie, Kiss Of the Dragon.
Kiss of the dragon was really great!
What about Fearless?`;)
Every fight scene in this movie is epic! The first dojo fight and the fight against Ting-An where he starts boxing and throwing in some Jeet Kune Do are both phenomenal.
It was the girlfriend's uncle.. Kurata Yasuaki is an all-star. The fight with his friend at Jingwu and the opening fight in classroom were also great!
Don’t forget Fearless…… and it’s not his girlfriends father…. But rather her uncle. Head of the naguchi clan.
One of my favorite fight scenes great that you finally reacted to it. Billy Chow is just so “big” in this scene the way he just shrugs everything off in the beginning.
It definitely holds up well, too. I just rewatched the final fight from Bloodsport the other day, which was epic when I was younger, and I was almost ROFL it was so bad…
Same with the Mortal Kombat Movie. The only Epic Things left are the Soundtracks and The Overacting of Chang Tsung ^^
Most of the Fights are actually kinda Lame and dont hold up well. Thats what you get for having most Actors without any Martial Arts Talent or Background doing a Movie about a Fighting game oO
Still not nearly as bad as Iron Fist Netflix Show where not a single fight scene looks natural or cool in any way xD
Yeah I just rewatched the final fight in bloodsport 2 days ago.... so bad.
Grandad from "The Boondocks" taught me just how effective a belt is as a weapon lol.
Love this fight scene. Billy Chow is so intimidating. He was always the best villain type.
My own father taught me just how effective it was on my behind 😂
This movie has aged incredibly well
9:04 Fun Fact: getting hit in your armpit can have effects that range from shitting yourself to nerve damage to nearly instant death
One of the best fight scenes in history
Billy Chow Bei-lei is a Hong Kong-Canadian martial artist, film actor, and retired professional kickboxer. He was the WKA world Welterweight champion from 1984 to 1986, and retired with a professional record of 45-0-8. Wikipedia
Born: August 24, 1958 (age 63 years), Calgary, Canada
Height: 6′ 0″
Style: Kickboxing
I love how much they are trading blows. In many fight movies their are always phases in fights were one dominated the other and then it switches back and forth but here they just trading all the time even when you think the other has now the upper hand (bleeding eye etc.).
I just love this movie it has so many great fighting scenes. I also really love the fight versus the old master.
Easily one of my favorite Jet Li movies and fight scenes from my childhood, definitely a great watch!
Love this movie! Thank u for the upload max! One of the best jet fights ever
The previous fight to this with Jet Li vs Yasuaki Kurata I think is a far better fight. Physically and metaphysically. While they are fighting they are discussing Old vs Young. Adaptable techniques etc. Please review that one.
I LOVE that scene. I agree, he needs to review that one as well!
This movie has been a treasured part of my Martial Arts collection since 1996.
Got to be my all time favorite fight scene. So cinematic, impacts all feel so solid, everything done in camera, the wire work is even somewhat grounded. Billy Chow in this movie is a terror of a character. A pretty fantastic martial arts film, but this fight sends it over the moon for me.
I just watched this movie, very awsome fight scenes but also a good cultural insight of the history between China and Japan.
Probably my fav Kung Fu film. So well filmed, so well stages, incredibly performed. I watched that in the 90s, and the pleasure didn't fade since.
This is probably my favorite Jet Li movie of all time. The fight scenes in here were so good. I've literally watched this movie over 15 times.
As someone who has fought away two attackers by themselves with just a belt and a crazy look to my eye, I can confirm: no one, not even crackheads looking to pawn your new shoes, wants to be whipped by a belt buckle across the face. I think I knocked out the only two teeth the one had left. Still have em in a bottle on my bedside drawer lol.
See, it sounded plausible until you took it too far. Guessing you had a necklace made of ears in 'Nam too?
This movie has 3 incredible fight scenes, all different styles
Earlier in the movie, you can see general Fujita practising Sanchin Kata. That explains why he is such a tank.
Throughout the fight, you can also see he is bracing for most of the attacks. That is why most of Jet li's attack has little impact on him.
While in college, about 2002, I was at a friend's house who had all these martial arts VHS tapes we liked to get high to. So one day Fist of Legend comes along and I was already in love with the blindfolded fight against the old man (watch it, different vibe), but the final boss is a monster. I think it's the uniform and the perfect straightness and power of those roundhouses, but I can't help but see M. Bison all of the time.
Anyway, the katana scene comes up and I'm already hyped out of my mind and I say to my friend "wooow do you imagine of he went full Kenshin vs Saito and fought back with his fucking belt?" (Rurouni Kenshin fight, i also recommend it, it's amazing even with that minispoiler).
After saying that, I didn't see my friend's face, but he must have sneered or something because 2 seconds later it happens and I just lost it and it was one of those mindblowing movie moments you remember forever. True Story.
I wanna say this is the only movie where all the fight scenes were and are still great.
Oh, this was my very favorite Jet Li movie when I was a teen and me and my best friend went on a wild Jet Li kick, watching every film of his we could get ahold of. My friend liked the wire-fu movies that were all spectacle, but I loved this one and the grittier tone with minimal wire work.
Thanks for reacting to it, this was a blast from the past for me.
One of my favourite fight scenes.
That fight was indeed LEGEND!!🤯
Started level 10 ending in God mode...Epic Jet Li
One of my favourite movies.
Its sad we don't see jet li in movies anymore😔
I was so distracted looking behind max thinking, blood of elves, ive heard that before, the last wish? hmmm, wait a minute max has the entire collection of the witcher books wth lol awesome, just now noticed
Yes!, I've been waiting for this. This movie has some of the best fight scenes I've ever seen. I would highly recommend watching all (or most) of them.
It's basically a "remake" of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury from 1972 😉😁
Great reaction!
I love the School fight at the beginning of the movie!
The era at peak which is all choreography are made real hit hard with speed and you can watching over and over again without boring.
Great video. I love how you combine being both a fan and martial art instructor at the same time. Thats the way it should be. 🙏👊
Yeah the movies are supposed to be entertaining! If you take them too seriously it ruins all that gotta sit back and enjoy the ride
The dojo fight scene and the fight with his girlfriend uncle also dope, as well as the scene he fights his cousin
should of done the scene where he fights the old man blindfolded
Perry the punch sounds like an alternate Perry the platypus
Cool fight scene, yeah, but you wanna know what would make it realistic? Them both warming up. Imagine doing such sick moves without a warm-up. Next day you'd be like a one giant feeling of pain, sprained joints and pulled muscles. Therefore I believe they should do some jumping jacks, burpees, sprawls beforehand. I know it would look ridiculous, but it would be at least realistic.
Yeah there are crazy athletic people and athletes in the world but if you don't stretch before doing stuff like that you gonna pull something
This whole fight scene is unrealistic. Billy Chow breaks trees and stone with his leg ffs lmao. But we don’t care, we wanna see 2 incredibly skilled men fight eachother with some awesome moves.
lets gooo
another banger from max!
The "three stooges slap" was a backhand eye rake, essentially getting slapped or scratched in the eyeball, blinding/impairing the Colonel....the Captain....the bad guy's eye closest to his opponent, thus causing his depth perception to be hindered with the follow up kick causing the eyebrow cut futher debilitating him.
This is why I love old martial arts films like Fist of Legend, Fist of Fury, any old Wuxia style films and especially The Shaw Bros productions. The fight choreography tells a mini story and isn't just flashy to be over the top flashy. Plus the wire work in older films without the use of CGI holds up most of the time with some exceptions of course. The older the films, the newer to the techniques they were and thus the more they age badly, kinda like certain practical effects, like say some of the Jim Henson muppet stuff in movies Labyrinth or Dark Crystal, or in horror movies like Friday the 13th when the arrow goes through Kevin Bacon's throat from under the bed after the sex scene. The neck is clearly a rubber dummy with off color skin and sprayed on sweat but the blood squirting effects more than make up for it, THANKS to Tom Savini amongst others! Or in Nightmare on Elm Street 2 when Freddy is "birthed" out of Jesse's skin and basically "steps out" of his torso. The practical effect was good for the time with the blood and lighting but upon rewatching it does look like a rubber mold dummy of the actor.
The scene with Jet and the old japanese master is really amazing
I've watch this movie many times and still not bored with it 😁
I thought I knew what a good fight scene was until today
this commentator and instructor is the best and good sense of humor 😂
Always be ready to whip your belt buckle at a dude’s face
I appreciate you not pausing it all the time as you speak. Great content! ♥
This fight and Jet Li vs Yasuaki Kurata are my favourite scenes in this movie. I can see them over and over again.
I had this on VHS as a kid, I posted in a previous title for you to do any fight from this. I watched this like every day as I didn’t have many movies, it’s soooo good. Glad you reacted!!
One of my favorite marital arts films. Awesome stuff
MY FAVORITE MOVIE of Jet Li. He is fast...The belt part is awesome
I have the DVD with behind the scenes interviews with the director and he said that Billy Chow actually thanked him after filming was done because most of his acting jobs before this were non-speaking roles. I don't know much of his filmography, but I do know he played a silent heavy in Iron Monkey 2 opposite Donny Yen.
Billy chow is a professional kick boxer that’s why this scene was so perfect these guys are not amateur especially jet li
Just for some clarity, that whole line that was said at 4:13 doesn’t exist in the Chinese version of the film. There is no dialogue in this entire fight, just pure action! I suggest watching this film, it’s good, with some great grounded fight scenes. Jet Li’s character Chen Zhen basically is using a mixture of Japanese karate and mixing it with Chinese Gong Fu, creating a style of his own that leads to him beating Billy Chow’s “Fujita” character in this ending scene. This is a martial arts classic, easily top 10 all time
This is the movie, and the fight, that got Yuen Woo-Ping hired on the Matrix.
This is one of the greatest fight scenes ever …
I have lost count of how many times I’ve watched the belt bit on slomo since I first watched it on vhs back when it came out 👍
First time seeing this fight. Wow! Very realistic (other than how many punches they both took). I saw no trick effects work. Looked very real!
I have this movie and I can tell you that even till this day it's one of the best Jet Li fight scenes. I could watch this over and over. Even with the special effects back then it's still great to watch. Awesome commentary also. I subscribed. Btw that Bardock in the background is OP👌🏽
This fight scene is so iconic that it was referenced in three other Jet Li films: Hitman, The One, and Kiss of the Dragon.
The first scene is great too, plus the scene with the uncle. The first one is pretty savage fighting by dislocation.
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Daaamn! i totally missed this movie, this fight is awesome af, dare i say, even more intense than when donnie yen was Chen Zhen
Every fight in this movie is gold
Love being early to these videos
Fist of Legend is so great. This fight is fantastic. (Though all of the fights in this film are tied for best. Dojo fight, fight with grandmaster . . . Epic.)
"I wonder how practical that kick would be" The rainbow kick variants are the most effective when they're the last thing you expect to see. Hugely acrobatic, light on power, and leaves the user very vulnerable, but the notion of simultaneous parallel attacks is uncommon enough that if you can get the tunnel vision it makes for a great punish.
The armpit shots are a great way to deal with Strong Fist and Iron Body conditioning since they've got powerful nerve clusters that you can't condition *and* easy access to major arteries.
finally someone that gets it, body conditioning and the chinese technique "ironshirt" channels chi hardening the body, soft areas like the armpit has pressure points and a weak point that can't be hardened easily, hence why he went for the leg joint after, also why jet went to chop his heck, he hardened his neck and caught it with his chin, jet flicks his eyes to disturb his chi and went for a second chop
Getting hit just bellow the armpit and just behind the bicep will make the arm go numb, similar to hitting your funny bone in the elbow. Hurts like hell and makes your arm all but useless for a good bit of time.
The talk about belts reminds me of the bathroom fight from The Punisher season 2. There, he doesn't use it as a weapon, but he wraps it around his forearm to defend against knife slashes.
This movie was my intro to Jet Li. I was already a fan of guys like Van Damme and Chuck Norris, and I was definitely familiar with Bruce Lee, but after seeing this movie, Jet became my favorite fighter.
Billy Chow was a legit kickboxer back in his day. Fought around the same era as Benny the Jet and Ken Lowe
Ahh! This is one of my top 4 favorite jet li Movies. This is a great fight scene. Billy Chow is a force. Shows all of Jet's talents. A must watch is Romeo Must Die and The Defender-- Wow!!
This movie is actually my favorite Jet Li flick. Awesome fight scenes, This one is great, but i think the scene when he fights his Japanese (girlfriend?) Uncle (the guy saying "if you learn to be fluid") is the best fight scene by far! You need to watch Last Hurrah For Chivalry. Probably the greatest Kung Fu Fight scenes ever done, and it was filmed in 1979!
A lot of people don't know about Last Hurrah for Chivalry. An amazing flick. Also Canton Iron Kung Fu along with Born Invincible
Yeah Jet Li!!! His play in Kung Fu Master (Once upon a time in China) was the inspiration for me to start learning Wushu 27 years ago.
That's amazing! Do you still train?
@@BurridgeMartialArts604 on and off during uni life abroad. But during pandemic i did more chen tai chi though. Getting old haha. But more interest practising weapons. Into kenjutsu lately too.
This fight scene is what inspired the Wachowski brothers to hire the choreographer aka Yuen Woo Ping, to work on the Matrix films
So long as pants not too loose once you take the belt off.
Trust me, getting hit in the inner part of your biceps is excrutiating, happened to me while exercising with parallel bars years ago early in a park at sunday and there I was, a grown man weeping in the floor and incapacitated for like 15 minutes with nobody around to help me. That was a good learning experience.
This Fight Scene and then the Fight Scene with The French Twins on “Kiss of The Dragon” Top Tier!
Bruv, please review the middle fight from Fist of Legend when Chen Zen fights Master Funakoshi - it's as good as most other final flight scenes and has a brilliant ending! 🙏🏾
This is one of the best ever fight seens in Kung Fu movies.
I've got the uncut version of this movie on dvd where they show the general smoking opium before the fight, that's why he feels no pain.
I like that in a lot of his movies, if Jet Li's character improvises a weapon, it's usually a belt or towel that he uses like a whip...I'm guessing it's his favorite Wushu weapon.
Love this movie. 1 of my favorites. He fought the chinese M. Bison.
I've watched aloooooot of kung-fu, karate, martial arts movies or whatever you wanna call them and I can say Jet Li's foot work in this movie was absolute flawless and my favorite next to Bruce Lee's.
My favorite Jet Li movie. This was his remake of Bruce Lee's "Fist of Fury". Martial arts fans will note that throughout the movie Jet is constantly eschewing traditional Kung Fu training in favor of cross training and calisthenics in a Lee homage.
Fist Of Legend is one of my all time martial arts movies! Great final fight scene!
This was so good!
I’ve watched countless kung fu movies, and I have to say this one is my favorite.
The belt was a tribute to Bruce Lee in the way Bruce used nunchaku against a katana in the original fist of fury 👍👍
I’ve been training in Wing Chun and jeet kune do for many years and Jet Li used some good jeet kune do in this movie.
This is Jet Li's greatest movie in terms of fight scenes, it's a retelling of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. Every fight scene is long, detailed and you can see the time and effort they gave to craft out a martial arts masterpiece.
I think this is Jet Li's best action movie. He had a few great fights in this movie, in a dojo with his friend, then with his gf's dad(?) in the fields, and finally this one. The fights were well measured, tactical and satisfying
"I don't think i've ever seen anyone look so cool swinging a belt around"
Clearly you've never seen Pootie Tang.
This was one of my favourite fight scenes. Also when Jet walks into the dojo and beats everyone up. Remake of a Bruce Lee film
Under the Armpit area there is an Artery, and a Major Nerve.. if hit correctly, one may lose feeling in the hand a short while, feel Pain, or even lose strength, or it may mess up the movement. There is a pressure point under the armpit, so a punch is Very effective.
It's basically a remake of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. The story of Chen Zhen. Jet plays the master Chen Zhen is avenging in the movie Fearless, many years later.