The Avenging Fist (2001)
In the not too distant future, scientists begin to conduct research on the Power Glove, a device that will yield unimaginable power. But the gloves were stolen by the ambitious special agent Combat 21, who subsequently disappears. Twenty years later, Combat 21 re-emerges to rule the world, calling himself the God of Fists. Now a new generation of special agents must come together and defeat the omnipotent enemy.
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Why so much hype?
Simply A Masterpiece
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Blistering performances.
Overall, a pretty poor attempt to do "The One" on a Hong Kong Budget. Sammo Hung and an almost unrecognisable Yuen Biao are wasted in pivotal roles as the Hero's mentor and evil father, respectively.The irony is that while the characters joke about Sammo having put on weight, it's Yuen Biao who needs the metal mask to cover his chubby jowls.I thought that with Cory Yuen on Action Choreography we'd at least have some interesting fights, but it's mostly characters "gesturing hypnotically" while the SPFX guys add in all kinds of cheesy lightshow effects.Disappointing.
I think Namco should have let them go ahead and use the Tekken name instead of the likeness. With that said so much could have been right, but a lot could have been wrong. The action was not that great to me but the story was pretty good.This story sums up tragedy causing a playful immature boy to become a man. I was looking for a little more coming from Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung, but again I can't gripe because they both have brought some serious action to the movie table.The CG was very good, the ending to me had to much likeness to Storm Riders in a since. The fighting was nice especially using those rag doll falls from powerful hits. The story of the Power Glove was a little lame to me but it was something you could look over.After everything that happened you can only start to feel sorry for the Hero being that he lost everything he had, but never under-estimate the power of true friends.In the end this movie was good with bad parts in it but definitely not a horrible one. If you can't tell the difference between good and bad movies this is a taste of the good.Now this is a taste of the bad Volcano High, Equilibrium, Matrix Reload, Matrix Revolution, The Invincibles, to avoid any conflict I'll stop here. But give this movie a try you will like it, or you won't.
I saw The Avenging Fist after watching Stormriders at a friend's house. I was grossly disappointed in Stormriders just because of the fact that there is no actual fighting. I was expecting the same thing from Avenging Fist, meaning just pretty CGI and a couple fireball here and there. I was actually very surprised that the movie wasnt that bad. What I really liked in the movie were how the fight scenes were mixed with wires and CGI, how sparks would fly off of the fighters' limbs as they strike each other, how the villain used telekinesis very much like in Dark City's final scene, and its main characters looked like Hwoarang and Jin from Tekken. However, the story was very corny, the whole scenery reminded me of the 5th Element, and the actors for the main characters were complete turds (I.E despite the attempted style of Tekken characters they looked like a couple of a-holes you could careless about). All in all it's not a bad movie at all, but it definely could be way better. With every movie Andrew Lau does, I'm sure he learns what people like and don't like. Me personally, I'd rather see good ol' Wire-Fu.
This is such a lousy movie man. Not worth watching it at all in my opinion. When i was in Honh Kong this Christmas i thought it would have been cool and awesome but it was off very fast. The rating there were bad and i thought no way. I was disappointed when it was off that fast and really want to watch it one day. Then just yesterday Feburary 2, 2002 my sister brought it on dvd and i was so surprised that is out so fast. I watch it and it bore me to death for the whole hour and a half. No bright spot in this movie at all in my mind and no wonder it was off the theatre so damn fast and the rating was right on. Out of 10 in my opinion i rated it 2.5 and a D- movie. Not worth paying to watch it but renting it is fine to me. Is a science fiction type movie and the action sucks like crap. No acting, plot and it make no sense. I hated the movie the one but this is even worse cause at least Jet Li can fight. The only thing is a bright spot at least it has a pretty girl to watch in Gigi Leung. That's it.