The sword belongs to her family and if she can get it back it will fulfill the failed life ambitions of her father and grandfather. parallels), and she ends up reluctantly teaming with Tang to sneak around the island and steal shit. One of the competitors (Mini Yang) actually stole an invitation to get into the tournament because she needed to get onto the mountain to try to steal the sword (more D.O.A. This is an unusual thing for a fighting tournament in a movie: they’re not fighting to the death, nobody cheats, nobody is taking it too personally, and in fact there’s more than one scene where a fighter tries to let their opponent win out of empathy. Despite this constant threat of horrible death there’s a surprisingly relaxed and respectful atmosphere surrounding the competition.

Most of the fights take place on a cement platform right alongside a cliff, and fighters generally end up jumping onto the ledge and almost losing their balance.

She’s good but he doesn’t want to see her get beat down. He’s a loving father, not one of those tough love sports dads, so before each fight he tells her to quit if she can’t win. She’s a cute young girl of unidentifiable age and Prince Leia type hairstyle. They should probly be making a bigger deal about being in this because it only happens once every 500 years, seems like a pretty big honor. He brings his daughter Ning (Xu Jiao) to Wu Dang Mountain to compete in an invitation-only fighting tournament (shades of Yuen’s D.O.A.). A happy medium between semi-believable and total magic. The style of the action is very Corey Yuen – not realistic, lots of wires, but mostly no flying. This is great because he’s wearing a pinstrip suit, a bow tie, round glasses and white gloves and he’s leaping through the air, punching through walls, crushing guys’ legs in doors. Then it’s “well, gotta be going now fellas” as he tries to walk away with the map, which means he has to fight his way out. He identifies it as a fraud, but the carrying case is apparently real because he breaks it open and pulls out a map to 7 treasures on the Wu Dang Mountain. In the opening he goes to appraise a legendary ancient sword, like Steven Seagal does on the weekends. Tang Yunlong, a sort of more buttoned down Indiana Jones type of treasure hunter. Vincent Zhao, star of TRUE LEGEND, plays Dr. The director is Patrick Leung (THE TWINS EFFECT II), the action choreographer is the great Corey Yuen. WU DANG is not only an alternate spelling of “Wu Tang” and an excellent new exclamation to use, but also a nice period martial arts picture that just came to the region 1 DVD.

Wu dang 2012