Rotten
"Kung Fu Killer" lacks the brio and spice of its ancestors.
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
Kung Fu Jungle
Nobody's going down without a fight.
2014 · 1h 40m · Not Rated
Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Teddy Chan Tak-Sum
Overview
A martial arts instructor working at a police academy gets imprisoned after killing a man by accident. But when a vicious killer starts targeting martial arts masters, the instructor offers to help the police in return for his freedom.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Kung Fu Killer manages to be your better-than-average chop-socky fun for a couple of reasons, starting with veteran actor Donnie Yen in the lead as Mo Hahou, who can fight and emote with equal proficiency.
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
Fresh
This isn't a new golden age of martial arts films, but with Yen holding down the fort in China and southeast Asian fighters Iko Uwais and Tony Jaa, it's a pretty good one.
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Here, in this entertaining, preposterous goof of a kung fu movie, are all those values missing from the mainstream of American action filmmaking ...
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Rotten
An undeniably bland film in style and story, despite a few elaborately staged fight sequences.
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
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