The flying guillotine is a dumb weapon. It’s amazing and great, but it’s also super dumb. And it needs to star in a movie that knows how dumb it is. This is why Master of the Flying Gillotine is one of the greatest films ever, it knows exactly how dumb the flying guillotine is.
Shaw Brothers invented the Flying Guillotine genre (yes, it’s a genre) but they never figured out how to make them entertaining. I haven’t seen the first one in decades but I recall that it was mostly about farming. Farming. The movie is called The Flying Guillotine and there was so much farming.
The sequel features no farming but still takes the whole thing super seriously. There’s very little guillotine fun, instead the film spends a bunch of time on plots that go absolutely nowhere. The last ten minutes or so liven things up with a giant fight full of spinning blades, but it’s a cae of too little, too late.
