Don’t get me wrong. I love Kung Fu, I practice Kung Fu and I watch Kung Fu movies and enjoy them anyway. But I can’t help wondering why Hong Kong action movies have such a terrible storyline and give us the coup de grace with a stupid, pointless ending?
Sure, the fight scenes are good, and many of them have good comical and philosophical content, but the main plot is so stupid, just throws so much random crap at you as an excuse for a gratuitous fight scene where the “young grasshopper” always wins, so many scenes are completely unrelated to the main plot and…. the story is stupid, pointless, illogical and leaves me confused (most of the times). The only Kung Fu movies with a decent storyline I’ve watched were “Fist of Legend” (both the Bruce Lee and Jet Li films), “Fearless/ Huo Yuan Jia” and “Tai Chi Master/ Twin Warriors/ Taiji Zhang Sanfeng”.
