' Delightful Forest '
Cast: Ti Lung, Tien Ching
Director: Chang Cheh
Synopsis
The story continued with the ' Tiger Killer' Wu Song after he had avenged himself on his brother’s murderer and banished to a foreign town called ‘Delightful Forest’. There he was imprisoned but later released by the local official who seek his assistance to rid a villain that had upset the whole town. Wu Song easily defeated the big bully, but never did he expect to end in a frame schemed by his vanquished foe’s allies…
Adapted from part of the Chinese Literature ‘Water Margin’, the plot focus on the development of the Tiger Killer Wu Song’s encounters. The excellent fighting choreography and impressive Ti Lung’s performance as a steadfastly righteous hero with considerable fighting skills, are highly commendable!
Rating : 4 stars of 5
1 comment:
"The Delightful Forest" features Ti Lung again as the heroic tiger killer, Wu Siong as seen in "Water Margin" and a few others epics which I couldn't quite remember now their titles........
Anyway, although this was a pretty much a glorified repeat of what had been seen in other Wu Siong's movies, it was not handled well with the script and pacing. In fact, I find the storylines were monotonous and non-compelling!And the tempo was maddeningly slow!
Unquestionably, "The Delightful Forest" was a visceral challenging stuff with much bloodbath and carnage; and Ti Lung was an old hand at those adrenaline-rush martial arts biff. Still, I find that Ti Lung's heroic persona started to wear thin after 30 minutes of agile punches and deadly kicks. I somewhat found them boring! The problem seemed to lie with the fact that he won every battle without much resistance!
In conclusion, the caliber of Ti Lung's performance as a Wu Siong in this movie had gone from above average to mediocre!
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