Granted, the production looks fantastic with lush and detailed sets, beautiful costumes and the martial arts action is fairly decent. Besides, the humor display within is childish and cringe worthy. Overall, this is Ricky Lau recycling himself after thirty six years but still brings nothing really exciting to the mix. How many times does the audience need to see someone being kicked, flown across the room and knocking down furniture?
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However, it looks like he only has one basic set of routine which gets repeated throughout the whole movie therefore it becomes boring after a while. Honestly, no one can replace the one and only Lam Ching Ying.Ĭredited as the action director, Zhang Di Cai's fight sequences which are mostly of the hand to hand variety with a few interesting weapons thrown in, are decent and fluid in their execution. He's heavily made up to look like him, right down to the same haircut and the trademark mono brow and they even address him as Uncle Ying. Zhang Di Cai has the unfortunate task of portraying the original Taoist master made famous by Lam Ching Ying. Interestingly, his son Pang Jing Feng now plays the same student character that he played in “Mr. It's good to see Chin Siu Ho back on the screen but his Uncle Ho character seems bored and uninspired. His second in charge, Jade Phoenix ( Ariel Ahn Wei) is another stand out, a mysterious character who's both ruthless and beautiful. Veteran Norman Chui is wonderful as the bandits' boss and it looks like he's having fun. Needless to say, this all ends up in a showdown inside his impressively designed lush lair in which only the tough guys will be left standing. The rest of the movie concentrates on the Ghost King's plot of trying to overrun Mei Zhou town, where our protagonists live. Both these scenes are visually impressive to behold and they bring back fond memories of the first “Mr. Next up, we follow Uncle Ho as he investigates a supposedly haunted dye factory and encounters a couple of ladies who dress up as ghosts only to scare off the owner. Uncle Ying's entourage intercepts them which end up in a well-choreographed fight with some humor thrown in. The best part of “ Taoist Priest” is at the beginning, when we witness a priest in his familiar yellow robe, while he's herding a row of ten hopping vampires across town, all in their beautiful Qing Dynasty robes. One Eyebrow” which interestingly, is the same Chinese title of “Vampire Vs Vampire” (1989) directed by Lam Ching Ying himself. However, they do use their kung fu skills when the Ghost King (Norman Chui) and his bandits try to take over their town. Together with the help of three students, they use medical knowledge and science to fight against superstitions and supernatural phenomena.
So, this is a vampire movie without vampires and ghosts it stars Chin Siu Ho as Uncle Ho and Zhang Di Cai plays Uncle Ying, the famous single browed Taoist master. Furthermore, they only appear briefly at the beginning of the movie then disappear and never to be seen again. To get around this, Lau replaces his hopping corpses with a group of opium smuggling bandits who wear fake teeth, fake long finger nails and to help them hop, they now have springs under their shoes.
Fast forward to 2021, he's back with his Mainland version of the same Qing Dynasty robe wearing outstretched arms jumping undead but with a difference so he can get pass the strict Chinese censorship which doesn't allow screen portrayal of vampires, ghosts or any feudalistic ideology. Consequently, he also turned leading man Lam Ching Ying who plays the Taoist exorcist into a household name. Vampire” which spawned a few sequels and numerous parodies.
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Ricky Lau will forever be known as the director who started the popular Hong Kong hopping jiangshi (stiff corpse) horror comedy movie series of the late 1980s starting with his “Mr.
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