STAR RATING: ***** Unmissable **** Very Good *** Okay ** You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead * Avoid At All Costs

A couple of partners who aspire to join the notorious Axe Gang that terrorizes China in the 1940s come into conflict with the residents of Pig Sty, a small village in the city. As events progress, the one discovers his humanity again and takes on the gang, as well as a new recruit who mastered Kung Fu to such an extent he went insane and ended up in a mental asylum...

There's been a regeneration lately of the Kung Fu genre, with the likes of Shaolin Soccer and Ong Bak, and this latest entry tries to spin a comedic twist on it.

I found the plot really sloppy and hard to follow (even for such a film.) As for all the breath-taking stunts, in comparison to Ong Bak (which I saw only a short while ago!) they look really unbelievable and strings assisted. The relentless onslaught of them began to wear me down after a bit. A lot of the audience I was sitting watching it with seemed to find it all very funny, and maybe it just caught me on a bad day, but this attempt to add a comedic twist on the genre just didn't appeal to me. **