Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
The martial arts genre is a sub-genre within the broader category of action movies, and is a great place to see amazing stuntwork, impressive hand-to-hand fights, and creative choreography. When a martial arts movie soars, there’s little else that’s as exciting or entertaining cinematically, and so the rare martial arts film that manages to be essentially perfect all the way through is worth celebrating and seeking out.
Dragon Inn establishes stakes early on, builds a good deal of tension throughout its first act, and then features a surprising amount of action for a film of its age throughout the final two acts. King Hu might have made more impressive and ambitious movies later in his career , but Dragon Inn is his purest and perhaps his most fun, and has a certain timeless quality as an all-out action/adventure film.
The training sequences are long but endlessly entertaining, and seeing the main character slowly get stronger and eventually emerge as an over-powered force of nature by the film’s end is supremely satisfying. It’s well-paced as a film and delivers some great fight sequences by the end, with The 36th Chamber of Shaolin being one of the best martial arts movies of a decade that was an overall great one for martial arts movies.
5 'The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter' Director: Lau Kar-leung A movie that’s well-liked by fans of classic martial arts cinema, but still feels a little underrated, broadly speaking, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter is explosive, savage, and spectacular in all the right ways.
3 'A Touch of Zen' Director: King Hu For as great as Dragon Inn was, King Hu’s A Touch of Zen is probably the filmmaker’s greatest accomplishment, being a quiet, contemplative, long, eventually exciting, and undoubtedly ambitious martial arts epic. It reaches three hours in length, but earns each one of its many minutes, telling a story about a woman on the run from evil forces that starts small, yet grows impressively in scope as things go on.
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