🎥 Movies of 2021, 64: The Buddhist Fist. Low budget kung fu movies frequently stage their fights outdoors, to overcome their small lighting budgets. Yuen Woo Ping takes a bold new direction here and films fights inside dim, cave-like rooms. One fight takes place in total darkness. Is the choreography good? Probably? I guess? I can’t see.
The story is not great. Sunny Yuen continues to be tolerable. But the characters of Chess Guy and the Hunchback Assassin With Too Many Gimmicks are both a lot of fun.
Though released after Magnificent Butcher it was clearly made before it, as evidenced by the brief appearance of Simon Yuen Siu-Tin
