Product Details

• Studio: Official
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304557809
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #161,920 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

In Last Hero in China, Jet Li reprises the role of Wong Fei-hung, a legendary figure in China. Both a doctor and a teacher of martial arts, Wong has just moved his school in Canton, only to discover that the neighboring house is a brothel. Though Wong's students are delighted and the earnest brothel master only wants to study with him, Wong feels he has lost face. But this becomes the least of his troubles: soon he's fighting a corrupt police chief, a temple of slave-trading monks, and a deafness-causing medicine sold to children--and that's just in the first hour. Last Hero in China is a grand melodrama, featuring exaggerated heroes and villains, goofy humor, and hyperbolic kung fu action. The plot takes some hard-to-follow turns, but the action is so nonstop it hardly matters. The lion vs. centipede dance/fight has to be seen to be believed, to say nothing of the priest with a floating lotus chariot and a flying claw. Jet Li is in fine form, Gordon Liu (as the venal top cop) is maniacal and despicable, and the lovely Cheung Man plays an expert martial artist looking for her kidnapped sister. The character of Wong Fei-hung also appears in the Once upon a Time in China series (where he was first played by Li) and in Jackie Chan's Drunken Master movies. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning: Clip Job - Search out the Original, February 13, 2001

By	A. Summers (Hayward, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Deadly China Hero (DVD)

The other user comments are technically correct. The film is great... in its original version. "Deadly China Hero," however, is a clipped version of the film "Last Hero of China." I highly recommend the original film instead of this one, which cuts out several crucial scenes and important subplots. There's no reason to settle for this hacked-up version.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You don't want this version!, November 1, 2001

By	"thai79" ('s-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadly China Hero (DVD)

When I first put this DVD in I noticed that they cut away the opening, then the movie starts and I can't believe my eyes as the quality of the DVD is even lower than my VCD version, this is just frustrating to watch. The subtitle cannot be change or removed since it is fixed onto the movie, the subtitle is in chinese and english use at the same time, the quality of the image is so below par that the subtitle at times can't even be read. Another thing is the audio, you can't switch between Cantonese and Mandarin like on my VCD, yes this too was fixed to cantonese only. There is no extra features, you might as well buy a VHS tape, which would probably be an improvement on the picture quality. It does look like they tranfer this movie from an overused VHS tape with no other intention then to sell it to unsuspecting "customers"(read victims).

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars JET LI V.S. gordon lui what more could you want?, December 14, 2000

By	KING GHETTO (Lynchburg, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deadly China Hero (DVD)

JET li stars in this powerful movie as he portrays chinese folk hero WONG FEI HUNG. THis movie is totally different from the other movies in the Once upon a time in china series. Some of the most memorable scenes from the movie are when Li battles "shaolin masta killa" Gordon Lui. The other great part in this movie is when Li dresses up like a chicken and battles a giant centipede. The end is still the best part when Li breaks his toes he's forced to get drunk and uses the Drunken style to win the final battle. One of Li's finest!!!!!!!!!!