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Dreadnaught
What are you looking for in a movie from Hong Kong? Goofy comedy? Ludicrous slasher flick? Gorgeously choreographed action movie? With 1981’s rarely screened DREADNAUGHT, there’s no need to choose — the plot flips between genres and set pieces nimbly as any of the actors across screen.
Yuen Biao (DRAGONS FOREVER) and Bryan "Beardy" Leung Kar-yan (THE VICTIM) star as young men seeking to learn kung fu from a legendary master. Meanwhile, a crazed kung fu killer named White Tiger is randomly putting on spooky makeup and unleashing his martial arts skills on unsuspecting victims. It’s up to the two young men to stop White Tiger, but not until they master laundry-fu, and fight a mysterious double-faced villain.
From brutal revenge to slapstick, from docu-realistic lion dance ceremonies to giallo-inflected nightmare horror, DREADNAUGHT does it all. This level of chaos shouldn’t work, but helmed by the dream team of Wong Jing (writer of the equally outlandish NAKED KILLER and GOD OF GAMBLERS) and Yuen Woo-Ping (director of DRUNKEN MASTER and fight choreographer extraordinaire), the constantly zig-zagging plot works in the movie's favor, serving the set pieces and choreography to dazzling effect. The Demon Tailor sequence alone, in which Kwan Tak-hing appears on screen as folk hero Wong Fei-Hung for the 75th and final time in his career, is worth the price of admission.
Wong Jin said his movies were hits because he gave the people what they wanted, not what he thought they wanted. DREADNAUGHT makes his point for him — it’s everything a movie should be.
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