Jet Li is sensational in his debut film role, showing a remarkable
intensity that still enthrals audiences today. The superb fighting
skills of this five times Wu Shu champion are complimented by a cast of
martial arts champions who make the film's action sequences even more
realistic.
Based on
a legend from Shaolin Temple folklore, Jet Li plays a vengeful youth,
Chieh Yuan, who join the Shaolin Temple in order to acquire the
necessary skills to fight a vicious warlord who murdered his father.
After
many years of training Chieh Yuan believes that he is ready to take
revenge for his father's death, but the warlord's kung fu skills prove
too mighty for the monk, who just manages to escape back to Shaolin to
train in earnest for a second innings!
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